El Pianillo is the antique shop that Antonio González Silva has run on Seville’s Calle Feria for seventeen years. On Thursdays, he takes his diverse repertoire of objects that never expire outside the premises to become a part of the namesake street market. Every time someone passes by the door, Antonio meets them with a…
VENEZUELA I: ASCENSO Y CAÍDA “Recibimos la información más dura y trágica que podamos transmitir a nuestro pueblo. A las 4:25 de la tarde de hoy, 5 de marzo, ha fallecido el comandante presidente Hugo Chávez Fría.” Es el año 2013, y entre lágrimas, el que será nuevo presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, vestido de…
In 2017, a well-known travel magazine recognized Seville as the best city to visit in 2018. In her final project, Arial Nieberding asked herself the following question: Which Seville? Because there isn’t just one. There is the artificial construction that strives to meet the expectations of many of the tourists who visit it and that…
One way to give voice to the protagonists of a documentary is to let them be in charge of part or all of its production. In the case of Bella Humphreys’s final project, the author gives them her camera so that they can record all the images. The decision is not capricious: Bella wants to…
In the final lines of this interview, the protagonist tells us that he has always been a photographer and that he will die being a photographer. In their final project, Caroline Ursu and Crosby Melendi capture Francisco Macias’ genuine passion for the art to which he has dedicated his life. Accompanied by delicate images that…
Members of CIEE’s Board of Directors were interviewed in Seville during the short stay in the city before attending the CIEE Annual Conference in Barcelona. This is how our Urban Photography professor Antonio Pérez recorded the ocassion.
Maxwell Wrobel wanted to approach the mockumentary format – a genre that applies the codes of documentary cinema to a fictional story, often with a playful and/or parodic or reflective intention – to show the experience of two students abroad who spend a day in Seville. Their journey through the common places that should not…
Lily Werlinich’s final project opens with a shot of a Bruce Springsteen concert; the vertical format of that shot indicates that she probably recorded it with her own phone. From then on, the musical memories of her life follow one another vertically, from her childhood to the present, recorded by her or by others, but…
This is the story of a first time. Jaylene Salas had never studied abroad before, but neither had any of her family members or best friends. What could this mean for them? How did it affect them? In her final project, Jaylene decided to ask herself these questions and ask them of the people closest…
Pastora Galván has danced for as long as she has been able to stand on her feet. Born into an important flamenco lineage, she is one of today’s most celebrated flamenco dancers in the world. Beyond that, she struggles every day to provide a happy life both for her daughter and herself. “I define my…
