Betty Laura Zapata

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Location: London, United Kingdom

Nationality: Venezuelan

Biography: Betty Laura Zapata is a Venezuelan documentary photographer based in London. She focuses on long-term projects that document social issues, political conflicts, health, immigration and gender violence. Betty completed an MA course in... MORE

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X-Ray

Copyright Betty Laura Zapata 2024

Date of Work Jul 2014 - May 2017

Updated Dec 2019

Location venezuela

Topics Cancer, Corruption, Dying/Death, Epidemics, Health/Healing, Human Rights, Latin America, Photography, Photojournalism

X-Ray shows Venezuelan public hospitals in a state of continued crisis. The photographs presented here reveal the disintegration of public healthcare facilities and the suffering of vulnerable patients.

This situation is cited as a microcosm of the problems facing the country at large. The pervading poverty, violence, corruption and negligence exist simultaneously within the hospital walls.

Published in Channel 4