Fernán Gómez compiles in one more exhibition 20 years of images by photojournalist Ángel López Soto, with which the stoicity of a long exiled people stands out.
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HÉCTOR LLANOS MARTÍNEZ
Madrid – 29 ENE 2021
When the photojournalist Angel Lopez Soto (born in Buenos Aires, although he has been from Madrid for half of his 68 years) had at the end of 1997 his first contact with a group of Tibetan exiles in a reception center in Kathmandu, He found in them a reason to feed his photography. “It was at a very particular moment. It was winter, a harsh winter, and I agreed with some of them, who had fled from Tibet for one of the steps they have to cross, a 6.000 meters high, to get to Nepal”. Actually, He met the survivors of that journey. “There were significant snow storms and avalanches that caused some to die along the way and many others to suffer frostbite to their hands and feet.. I was very surprised by the integrity with which they behaved in those circumstances.. I saw children from 8 o 9 years with frozen fingers, blackened by necrosis, trying to recover from the journey. They looked at me smiling. "His spirit was impressive.". (…)
