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.
What if we found new ways to travel through emblematic cities for tourism such as Paris and Seville? The authors of this diptych distance themselves from the dynamism and the noise of stimuli of some contemporary video blogs and travel through both spaces with a nostalgic, smiling and attentive look at the big but also…
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…
There are questions in an interview that are capable, by themselves, of giving rise to a complete interview; questions that reach the mind and heart of the interviewees -the idea and the emotion associated with it- and that allow them to unfold an answer that could give rise to an infinite dialogue. For their final…
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…
In Seville, Spain, on March 8, 2018, a group of more than 100,000 people takes to the streets to march for International Women’s Day. Within this crowd are three women from three different generations who share stories about their experiences with gender discrimination, their plights, and their ideas on how to win this battle with…
At the corner of Plaza de San Román and Calle Matahacas, stands a small, half red, half sky blue house with a rusted iron door. On both sides of the house, pristine white poster boards announce “BIKE REPAIRS” handwritten with a black sharpie. Inside, however, there is much more than just a bike repair shop….
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…
Molly Hostetler, Sarah Stein, and Harrison Wills are English teaching assistants at public elementary, middle, and high schools in Seville. As participants in CIEE’s fully immersive program Teach in Spain for teachers and recent college graduates, they gain valuable experience teaching abroad for a year, while still being able to explore their new city and…
Through trials and tribulations Paula overcomes and grows through the experience of her divorce while raising a daughter, getting a degree and holding a career. As the saying goes, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Thursday, March 19th, 1998, 12:35 am. Solange was born. Nothing could ever take away how happy Paula and her…
