Horacio Siciliano, Venezuelan photographer currently representative of a photojournalism that not only denounces the country's situation from the perspective of a young man, but from a vision whose social commitment goes beyond the cause.

A civil engineer by profession, he was introduced to photography in 2014, when, guided by his curiosity, he decided to record a forceful march in the city of Caracas. The photographer remembers that on that day, his camera witnessed a young man who died and whose death brought with it subsequent deaths that today have triggered a sadly excessive sum. His presence in the place made her aware of the importance of his act.

In this sense, this record of events as a visual memory of such forceful and heartbreaking actions and his immediate handling of it on social networks as a primary source of information, was the trigger that marked the beginning of his career as a photojournalist.

His lens has captured the best and saddest and cruelest scenes. Operations in neighborhoods, poverty, hunger, misery and protests are Horacio's target. His bravery reaches where many do not dare, in order to take the imminent moment of the event, but it is his job at the J.M. de los Ríos which determines and demonstrates his remarkable capacity for dedication and professionalism to document the strong reality that is lived, without ignoring anything around him, making an honest record with an ability to photograph situations of misery with the same intensity of those fortuitous and joyful moments and without ever forcing the scenarios, thereby demonstrating that their commitment to social reality goes beyond sharing and denouncing the events that occur in it.

An active participant in the Colibrí Foundation, Horacio has dedicated himself not only to capturing the crudest images of the situation of abandonment and apathy in which the hospital finds itself, but he has given each item he brings to the children an additional contribution , his time and his camera, with which he plays and allows the children to play with it so that they can photograph as they please. These are undoubtedly the best photographs of him. There he met, accompanied and cared for Samuel.

From being an anonymous philanthropist, Horacio Sicilaino has now become an essential international reference to make visible outside our borders, the imminent collapse that we all saw coming.

Meraz-Aguilar.

Museographic Office (2017).