Christian Rodríguez: What teen pregnancy looks like in Latin America
克里斯汀·罗德里格斯: 拉丁美洲青少年怀孕现状
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.
a teenage mother when she was 16.
myself and my origins.
in Latin America
sexually active adolescents
of 12 to 19 years old.
is not just about young pregnancies.
and economic violence.
before they are 18
standard of living.
to education and health care
among teen pregnancies.
gets pregnant before she is 16,
increases fourfold
in her community.
under the age of 18 are single mothers,
between father and child,
to educate boys differently
send boys to school but not girls.
heightened the gender equity gap
of traditional roles.
equal opportunities to girls,
between the ages of 10 to 14
for men twice their age.
abuse by her father,
she has butterflies in her hair,
to portray this mother with dignity.
younger than 15 is a growing trend,
countries in the world.
by bad social and cultural inequalities,
further increases this divide.
to being part of the solution
and emphatically
for boys and girls become similar,
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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