What Do You Want Out of Life
Between 2006 and 2011 photographer Costantino Idini travelled across South America, from Patagonia to Bogotá, documenting the lives of young people growing up in difficult social environments.
In the villas miserias of Buenos Aires, in orphanages in Uruguay, in correctional institutions in Bolivia and small towns in Patagonia, he asked a simple question:
What do you want out of life?
The answers were often modest and direct — a family, a home, a job, a future.
Later, photographing children from the Irish Traveller community, he discovered something striking: despite different cultures and continents, their dreams were often the same.
This work is not about poverty, but about dignity, resilience and the universal hopes shared by children everywhere.
Between 2006 and 2011 photographer Costantino Idini travelled across South America, from Patagonia to Bogotá, documenting the lives of young people growing up in difficult social environments.
In the villas miserias of Buenos Aires, in orphanages in Uruguay, in correctional institutions in Bolivia and small towns in Patagonia, he asked a simple question:
What do you want out of life?
The answers were often modest and direct — a family, a home, a job, a future.
Later, photographing children from the Irish Traveller community, he discovered something striking: despite different cultures and continents, their dreams were often the same.
This work is not about poverty, but about dignity, resilience and the universal hopes shared by children everywhere.
south America
Buenos Aires ,Patagonia,Santa Cruz, Montevideo
Monte Video Uruguai Orphanage 2006
Ciudad Occulta Buenos Aires 2008
Buenos Aires 2008
Ittacaré Brazil 2006
Patagonia 2008
Patagonia 2008
Barranca Boxing Club 2008
I want to study as a Chef 2008
Buenos Aires 2006
Buenos Aire 2008
Buenos Aires 2008
Buenos Aires 2008
Buenos Ires 2008
Buenos Aires 2008
Montevideo 2006
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires 2008
Bolivia
Ireland
Wen I left Dublin in 2006 thinking I was starting a photographic project. I didn’t know I was beginning a journey that would change my life.
