Women of Immigration

• Prize
• Photographer
  Journalist and humanistic photographer based in Madrid. He first studied at University of Salamanca and begins his professional career in 1993, at the informative services of Antena 3 Radio. The first, Spain

Hundreds of women of Senegal have lost their children and husbands trying to reach the Spanish coasts in fragile ‘cayucos’ boats. During years, spouses and mothers encouraged their young ones to undertake the march, in a passage of more than a thousand kilometers from the African coasts to Canary beaches. In the coastal villages, the neighbors and relatives hold celebrations of goodbye to the bold immigrants. The Senegalese polygamy increases the competition between mothers, and shakes the desire of the boys to rise on the boats. Behind each of these pictures there is, at least, a lost life in the ocean and the history of the subsistence of a family.

• Awards
  2013 APA / Lucie Foundation Scholarship Photographer. Los Ángeles. USA. (Shortlisted); 2013 Hamdan International Photography Awards. Dubai, AE. (Finalist);nternational Fine Art Photography Award. 2013 Grand Prix de la Découverte. París, France.(Juror Award of Merit); Festival Internacional de la Imagen, FINI 2013. Concurso Internacional de la Imagen. México.(Finalist); Photography Open Salon Arles. The Photography Festival Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, Francia. 2012. (Finalist); Internacional Photography Awards’, Loucie Foundation IPA, Los Ángeles. California. USA. 2010. (First prize); Nominated to L’iris D’or, category Portraiture: Fine Art, World Photography Awards WPA. London, UK. 2011; Nominated to L’iris D’or, category currents affeirs, World Photography Awards WPA, London. UK. 2009; Let’s face It 6. London Photographic Association. London, UK. 2010. (Third prize); Atlanta Photojournalism Contest. Portrait / Personality Category. Atlanta, USA. 2010. (Honorable Mention)...