Octavio Hoyos

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Fanny

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Location: Mexico City

Nationality: Mexican

Biography: Octavio Hoyos. Mexico City, 1974. Study journalism in the Universidad del Distrito Federal in Mexico City. Start in the photo agency Imagenlatina in the 2000. In 2003 join to the national newspaper Milenio as a staff photographer. Has been... MORE

Entrance to the general hospita... enabled for covid-19 patients.

Entrance to the general hospital of the area enabled for covid-19 patients.

Fanny Vázquez P&...ing the covid-19 clothing area.

Fanny Vázquez Pérez talks with other nurse inside the hospital, before accessing the covid-19 clothing area.

Every time there is personnel a... passage of the next personnel.

Every time there is personnel access through the corridor leading to the sick area, it is cleaned with disinfectants for the passage of the next personnel.

Fanny enters to the covid-19 cl...o helps the personnel to dress.

Fanny enters to the covid-19 clothing area to helps the personnel to dress.

Fanny is an element of importan... patients in the covid-19 area.

Fanny is an element of importance for the proper clothing of those who come into contact with patients in the covid-19 area.

Pablo, a hospital stretcher-bea...ask to enter the covid-19 area.

Pablo, a hospital stretcher-bearer, prepares himself by putting on a face mask to enter the covid-19 area.

Fanny places duct tape on a stretcher´s gloves.

"Poncho", x-r...before enter the covid-19 area.

"Poncho", x-ray specialist, pose for a portrait before enter the covid-19 area.

"Everything that happe...ers can read in the dress area.

"Everything that happens to us makes sense, even if we don´t understand it now", says a message in the mirror where the workers can read in the dress area.

Fanny puts on a duct tape with ...ntering the covid-19 sick area.

Fanny puts on a duct tape with the worker´s name and a message of encouragement before entering the covid-19 sick area.

A draw with the word "...daughter in the chest of Pablo.

A draw with the word "cheer up" made by the nurse Fanny with her daughter in the chest of Pablo.

"Poncho" refl...kers in the covid-19 sick area.

"Poncho" reflects in a mirror of the dress room of workers in the covid-19 sick area.

Fanny helps to an stretcher-bearer Pablo to put his covers mouth.

A worker in the covid-19 sick a...ith goggles tarnished by sweat.

A worker in the covid-19 sick area with goggles tarnished by sweat.

Fanny Vázquez P&...kers on the covid-19 sick area.

Fanny Vázquez Pérez with two workers on the covid-19 sick area.

A covid-19 nurse shows her thum...entering to attend to patients.

A covid-19 nurse shows her thumbs up before entering to attend to patients.

Fanny Vázquez P&...lobby of the covid-19 hospital.

Fanny Vázquez Pérez, nurse in the lobby of the covid-19 hospital.

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Fanny

Copyright Octavio Hoyos 2024

Date of Work Jun 2020 - Jun 2020

Updated Jun 2020

Location Mexico City

Topics Black and White, Covid-19, Documentary, Epidemics, Essays, Health/Healing, Illness, Latin America, Pandemics, Photography, Photojournalism, Still life, Womens Rights, Workers Rights

Fanny Vázquez Pérez is a nurse in the regional hospital of zone 24 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS). She have more than 20 years of experience in hospitals and since the start of the covid-19 pandemic is one of the workers who helps direct contact personnel with covid-19 sufferers to dress in safety clothing.
Fanny with her daughter print encouragement phrases every week, which shares on the chest of doctors, nurses and stretcher-bearers to offer support to workers and sick people of the virus in the covid area.

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