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An inmate in the rain at the City of Rest (CORE) drug rehabilitation centre, Freetown, Sierra Leona, 2011 - by Pep Bonet (1974), Spanish

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Hellbangers

Pep Bonet

Texts Pep Bonet and Steffan Chirazi, foreword by Rob Halford

Hannibal Books, Furnes 2021, 128 pages, 17x22 cm, hardcover with coloured edging, ISBN 978 916388 788 5

euro 60,00

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The Hellbangers are the enfants terribles of a sleepy, diamonds rich country. Photographer Pep Bonet (1974, Mallorca) has been following Overthrust, a heavy metal band from Botswana, Africa, and shows us a growing, exciting and thoroughly organic heavy metal community. Ten years ago, one group existed. Today there are more than ten and their fans are growing every year. The inhabitants of Botswana portrayed in this book are tattood, wear loudly and proudly leather jackets, leather trousers and play heavydeath metal music. Imagine the DIY ingenuity of their costume creation involving harvested animal skulls and other natural elements. With names like Demon and Gunsmoke, it would be easy though to think they are thugs, but We try to be exemples. Rock is awild thing, but also something for the heart, says Gunsmoke, the heavy metal head. Here too, the lyrics of the songs are very critical towards societies, just like their western peers. Metal in Botswana is rebellious movement against authorities. This is the story of what looks at first to be an unlikely union, yet one which powerfully illustrates how music, how heavy metal music, has become a positively unifying force in an unlikely part of the world.

28/12/23

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Pep Bonet

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Untitled, Sierra Leone, Photo by Pep Bonet, 2011

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Pep Bonet

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‘Casa Bonet’, single family house Sant Antoni de Vilamajor, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; 1975-82

Studio PER (Pep Bonet + Cristian Cirici) (photography by Lluís Casals)

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via “Werk, Bauen + Wohnen” 73 (1986)

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Dysturb #womenmatter

Photojournalism is a universal language with the power to demolish stereotypes, trigger discussions and alert consciences.

In 2014 Dysturb began pasting mural-sized guerrilla blow ups in public places: city walls, skate parks, and school hallways. In stark black and white, they make billboard sized prints of news images from photojournalists around the world, on a scale usually only seen in color commercial advertisements, to bring crucial subjects - like climate change, women’s issues, refugee crisis - and place them directly in front of people’s eyes.

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Food justice

There’s something seriously wrong with our food system. The world produces enough food to feed the entire planet and yet, 870 million people go to sleep hungry every night. In contrast, another 1,000 million suffer different forms of obesity; a disease which has already become chronic in many countries. More than a quarter of the food we produce ends up in the trash, as result of an inefficient marketing system and a model of consumption based on waste and capricious demands. In some countries, the current food system is threatening our natural resources: a Western citizen consumes, on average, the same energy, water and food as approximately ten Asians or Africans.

Hunger is generally not a problem in large cities, but eight in ten hungry people live in rural areas. In fact, food insecurity is concentrated in rural communities, precisely those who cannot afford the food they need to survive. These communities are lacking economic alternatives and they spend up to 80% of household income to purchase food, making them highly vulnerable to price increases.

At present, the problem of hunger resides in the distribution and access to food: enough food is produced, but not everyone has access to traded food. The future, however, holds challenges that we will have to address: the United Nations estimates that by 2050 we will have to produce 70% more to be able to feed a planet of 9,000 million people. This increase places more pressure on natural resources, where we are already failing to cater adequately for demands. The challenge of the food system is to produce more with fewer resources, while transforming our consumption patterns.

The majority of farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America are small producers and family farms, and their communities concentrate the highest levels of food insecurity. The participation of these farmers in production and providing access to food is a vital component of managing the food security of our planet. However, farmers are the weakest link in the food chain: they are forced to accept prices imposed by large companies, their crops are directly affected by climate change, and many suffer from expropriation of their land by foreign and national investors.

This is another great paradox of the global food system: small farmers, whose communities are most likely to suffer poverty and hunger, are the solution for the future of food security on the planet. If these small farmers are given access to adequate resources, can take ownership of their land and compete on equal fair trade terms, farmers in the poorest countries hold the key to increase food production, sustainable food security and more balanced distribution of food for the planet as a whole.

© Pep Bonet