I have been living in Barcelona for more than 40 years. I arrived here at the end of the 70's and not a single day has gone by without feeling grateful towards this city open to the sea, to Life. Love at first sight? Who knows! From the first moment I felt his embrace, I felt identified and committed knowing that it was and is here where I want to be. However, I never forgot my Valencian roots.
Photography of Elena Molina, made by Toni Gómez
I was born in Alcoi and it was there, in my youth, where my passion for Art was born. First through drawing and painting at the School of Fine Arts. Later the spell took over me when I discovered the fascinating world of graphic design. Always alert, always present in any area of our lives, in the most remote of places, because I would say that it covers everything, fills it, transforms it and enriches it. However, my professional life was developed in the business world, although those seeds germinated in me. Today I can affirm that Art, in any of its manifestations, has always been present, until, perhaps by chance, just a few years ago, I discovered photography.
Happy and exhausted after the boori ceremony of the gwari in Nigeria
Prepared for the celebration of Gerewol in the Niergui refugee camp in Chad
First the drums, little by little, the dim lights of dawn in a mundari camp in South Sudan.
Rituals of the Gwari ethnic group, in the emirate of Minna, Nigeria
If before I mentioned my passion for Art, it is no less so my passion for travel. The search in the depths of the soul, of the Other and of myself. The attempt to see myself reflected in others, to feel that equality in essence, stripping away differences. I was heading more and more to places, somehow, unexplored. That was how, surfing the internet, I met Joan Riera. I had no references to his travels, nor did I look for them. As I usually do, I followed my intuition and soon I was part of one of his expeditions through Nigeria. It was an amazing trip! I knew that no one else could have opened the doors to the experiences that we live there. Soon after, I was traveling with him again -this time to Chad-, shortly we will be together in Cameroon and I hope to continue doing so on successive trips.
Enjoy the New Year traveling with our experts to Sudan, Cameroon and South Sudan.
Akhu women in Wan Sai, Myanmar
Returning home after collecting cockles, Guinea Bissau
In the streets of Kapoeta, South Sudan.
Sunset in a mundari camp, Sudan South.
Balobera (bijagós priestess), shaman in a small village, Guinea Bissau
Since I finished my professional stage, I allow myself to go deeper and through photography, reinvent what has been lived, plagiarize memory. Make the experience my own, regardless of whether I have really lived it or if it is the result of the imaginary. To live is to dream, to feel, to know how to listen and listen to each other, to share... and in this way, I feel that, being able to recount and tell myself what I have lived through, I can consider the vital experience of the journey as completed, of my transit through Life.
Beyond the tanakha, Myanmar
One after another, Myanmar
Dawn in a mundari camp, South Sudan.
Tattooed young woman in Niergui refugee camp, Chad
A crowded school in the Kibera slum, Kenya
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