Christian Rodríguez: What teen pregnancy looks like in Latin America
Christian Rodríguez: Verkligheten bakom tonårsgraviditeter i Latinamerika
TED Fellow Christian Rodríguez explores themes related to gender and identity, working with communities all over the world. Full bio
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of teenage mothers in Latin America.
tonårsmödrars liv i Latinamerika.
a teenage mother when she was 16.
när hon var 16 år.
myself and my origins.
och mitt ursprung bättre.
in Latin America
i Latinamerika
sexually active adolescents
sexuellt aktiv flicka gravid
of 12 to 19 years old.
is not just about young pregnancies.
handlar inte bara om unga gravida.
and economic violence.
psykiskt och ekonomiskt våld.
before they are 18
innan de är arton år
standard of living.
to education and health care
till utbildning och hälsovård
among teen pregnancies.
gets pregnant before she is 16,
blir gravid innan hon är sexton år,
increases fourfold
som är över tjugo år.
in her community.
under the age of 18 are single mothers,
är ensamföräldrar,
between father and child,
mellan pappa och barn,
får någon större uppmärksamhet.
to educate boys differently
send boys to school but not girls.
men inte flickorna, till skolan.
heightened the gender equity gap
ökar skillnaden mellan könen
of traditional roles.
equal opportunities to girls,
för flickor skulle de kunna bli oberoende.
för tonårsgraviditeter.
between the ages of 10 to 14
for men twice their age.
för dubbelt så gamla män.
abuse by her father,
ständiga övergrepp,
she has butterflies in her hair,
har hon fjärilar i håret,
to portray this mother with dignity.
att skildra mamman med värdighet.
younger than 15 is a growing trend,
än femton år är en växande trend,
countries in the world.
by bad social and cultural inequalities,
sociala och kulturella ojämnlikheter,
further increases this divide.
ökar skillnaderna ytterligare.
to being part of the solution
and emphatically
och med eftertryck kräver
for boys and girls become similar,
blir mer jämlikt,
kommer att minska.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christian Rodríguez - Documentary photographerTED Fellow Christian Rodríguez explores themes related to gender and identity, working with communities all over the world.
Why you should listen
Christian Rodríguez is developing two main long-term projects: "Teen Mom," about teenage pregnancy in Latin America; and a personal project on magical realism, the Latin American literary trend. His work has been exhibited in festivals all over the world, such as GetxoPhoto, PhotoEspaña, Paraty Em Foco, Photo Phnom Penh Festival, Photobook Bristol, Photoville and the "Bienal de Fotografía" of the "Centro de la Imagen" (Mexico), and it has been published internationally, including National Geographic, the New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, El Mundo and others.
In addition to his work as a photographer, Rodríguez is creator and director of SAN JOSE FOTO International festival in Uruguay. He has been awarded the Roberto Villagraz Scholarship of EFTI (Spain), Nuevo Talento Fnac (Spain), Ojo de Pez Human Rights First Prize (Spain) and Getty Instagram Grant 2016 among others. Rodríguez gives workshops and lectures in Latin America and Europe, and he is a member of Prime Collective. He became a TED Fellow in 2017.
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