Alessandro Cinque, born in 1988, is a photojournalist based in Lima, Peru, whose work explores environmental and socio-political issues in Latin America, particularly the devastating impact of mining on Indigenous Quechua communities and their lands.
Through his work, Cinque documents environmental contamination and public health concerns among Indigenous communities living along Peru’s mining corridor, and has committed to photographing the effects of the pollution that permeates the crops, livestock, and homes of the people residing near mining sites.