Even those on the front lines aren’t immune to the financial casualties of COVID-19. Dozens of healthcare workers at an emergency room in southeast Tennessee receive devastating cuts to their salaries—but the real cost could be the lives of their patients. When 26-year-old Carl Montgomery comes home from work, he immediately strips down, showers, and…
With a mission to spread the message of peace and hope from the Sahrawi people to as many people as possible, the artist Federico Guzmán summons us below the melhfas to his artwork Tuiza
Don José is an extraordinary man. At 78, he brings together the wisdom of the old man, the energy of a young man and the joy and purity of a child. Dominika Struk had the opportunity to meet him one spring afternoon at the Huerto del Rey Moro, a community garden managed by the residents…
Clara Duarte Ceballos in the Park of Prado de San Sebastián / EMILY MILAKOVIC Although same-sex marriage had been legal for years by the time Clara realized she was lesbian, the world she lived in had not caught up. “I thought I was the only girl in the world who liked other girls.” Clara Duarte…
The depopulation of many rural areas of Spain is creating as many challenges as it is offering new opportunities for those who have not joined in the exodus to the cities. Several residents of Las Infantas, in the province of Jaén, describe their tribulations and hopes living in a village of no more than 400…
Camp “Dignidad” (Dignity) is home to 19 of the more than 800 homeless people that live in Seville; evicted from their homes, jobless, foreign or sick. amongst them, there is also a poet, Manuel.
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…
The shot that closes Paloma Bobadilla’s final project explains its title, because this story, which is her own story, is that of a woman who was given the name of kind of a bird and who learned to fly despite the obstacles she found on her way. Or perhaps, and as Paloma herself acknowledges in…
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…
The Brazilian André Salla was a child the first time his grandfather gave him a drop of wine dissolved in water with sugar. Since then, his love for what he calls the blood of the earth has not stopped growing and today is the owner of Flor de Sal, one of the best-known wine cellars…
Dark Red, the title of the song heard in Ariel Grier’s final project, serves as the starting point for creating a video that works with the colour of her experience in Seville. In line with the avant-garde documentary of the 1920s, Ariel collects fragments which captivates her gaze and edits with them a visual symphony…
Mockumentary is a widespread non-fiction genre in which the modes of representation of documentary cinema are used to tell a fictional tale. This genre has often been used as a satirical tool because of the contrast between the implausibility of the content and the veracity conveyed by the way it is told. And this is…
The angels of Mariela Sanchez’s moving final project are the people who are no longer there, those who have left the lives of the interviewees and to whom they dedicate their memories and the last words they would have liked to say to them. The form chosen by the author – a camera that serves…
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.
From November 4th to November 6th of 2018, nine members of CIEE’s Board of Directors visited CIEE Seville. During their last day in the city, they participated in the class ‘Video Reporting in Context’, where students learn how to produce videos that tell stories of their host community. To such distinguished guests, the students posed…
