WINNERS
Los Acuaticos
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PhotographerJules Lanzaro, France
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PrizeBronze Winner in Human/Culture
The Acuaticos is an autarkic community healed exclusively with water and marked by religious excesses. In 1945, near the village of Viñales, Cuba, a community called the Acuáticos was founded on the principles of water healing and the preaching of local peasant Antoñieca Izquierdo. This community lived in autarky, with no nationality, no birth certificates, no school, no doctor. They still live there. Exchange with Cocuyo: "Is it true that you only cure yourself with water?" "Yes, at 92 I've never taken any medication. I've always cured myself with water. So has my daughter Juani," she repli
