Viewfinder - Eugenio's close up

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The most concentrated population in the sprawling city of Buenos Aires, Argentina is found in its slums. As with so many of the marginalised shanty towns of Latin America there is a wellspring of violence and economic despair. Caught in the ever shifting instability of Argentina's economy there is little chance that these slums will be transformed or that their residents will be able to easily escape the country's cyclical poverty. Despite this for Eugenio, a 32-year-old photographer who still calls the slum of Villa 15 his home, there is a persistent richness to the life around him, and hope.