Finalists Photon Grant 2017

WINNER PHOTON GRANT 2017 SERGI ALCAZAR PREMIÀ DE MAR / SPAIN PROJECT: VESTIGIUM The neighbors of La Catalana have been for more than a decade fearing the planned demolition of their homes and their expulsion from the neighborhood. At the end of the 50's, hundreds of Barcelona metro workers or the Besós thermal power station sought a place to settle [...]

WINNER OneShotAwardPhotonGrant 2017: 500€ PABLO MIRANZO ELCHE / SPAIN PROJECT: The State of Veracruz, Mexico, was a peaceful area until recently. Today he is immersed in a spiral of violence due to disputes between the Jalisco Cartel and the Zetas. These groups struggle to control narco business: drug trafficking, kidnapping, or migrant routes to the United States. The former governor [...]

ALBERTO BARBA ZAMORA / ESPAÑA PROYECTO: WAR MAPU ( LA GUERRA DE LA TIERRA) War Mapu narrates the embed conflict of Mapuche indigenous people in Chile, a struggle in which state-sponsored companies exploit the ñukemapu (Mother Earth). In the Mapudungun language, Mapuche means "people of the earth". Its ancestral culture is based on the connection and coexistence with the four [...]

ATOQ RAMÓN LIMA / PERÚ PROJECT: MAL DE OJO Although the last Peruvian civil war has silently remained among us the violence didn’t end up in 2000 with the statistics of 70,000 murdered people, 3 out 4 indigenous. There are almost 15,000 missing people and their families are still seeking justicie. There’s no silence about it. At least not anymore [...]

SALVADOR FENOLL CALLOSA DE SEGURA / SPAIN PROJECT: TOKHANG Tokhang is a project on the police operation that bears the same name and has been active in the Philippines since July 2016. This set of photos tries to cover various issues within the tough drug war of President Rodrigo Duterte in which they have Dead more than 7000 people. www.salvadorfenoll.com ++++ [...]

ÁNGEL GARCÍA BARCELONA / SPAIN PROJECT: THE BLANKET PROJECT Las Ramblas, the tree-lined mall George Orwell described as Barcelona’s “central artery”, is usually clogged with tourists. Once the site of flower shops, Sunday strollers and elaborately costumed street performers, today it trades in vulgar T-shirts and gaudy souvenirs. Pushy waiters steer visitors towards kitschy restaurants serving oversized beer, sangria and tapas. [...]

MAREK M BEREZOWSKI VARSOVIA / POLONIA PROJECT: MARIUPOL. FOUR SEASONS IN THE SHADOW OF THE WAR. War in Donbas it is currently the only war in Europe. Mariupol is a story of an industrial city, the largest in the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Donbass region that is directly affected by the war. The city, with a population of roughly 500,000, lies [...]

SHAUNA FRISCHKORN PENNSYLVANIA / EE.UU PROJECT: MC WORKERS Underpaid food industry workers serve our food, day-in and day-out while wearing conspicuous corporate uniforms, with all the conformity and anonymity associated with their low-status "McJobs." Unattractive and ill fitting, these clothes serve their purpose: to make these workers look low-key and "uniform." My subjects are just kids— strangers that I meet [...]

ELENA GROM KIEV / UKRANIA PROJECT: BEACH The project is devoted to the research of beach space and human interactions with it. The beach is the confluence of two elements - earth and water. The first nine months of life we spend in the womb in the aquatic environment. According to mineral structure of the water in the cells of our [...]

DAVID ARRIBAS LEGANÉS (MADRID) / SPAIN PROJECT: SCARS Spain is one of the few countries where hunting with greyhounds is a legal activity. This activity was a form of sustenance for the family in the rural areas, but now using greyounds to hunt isn’t vital.  That’s why it has reinvented itself and it’s now turned into sport preserving its practice within [...]