Brussels, Belgium
$200 - $400 / Day
Laia Ros is a journalist and a photographer based in Brussels (Belgium), available to work around Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Spain. She has published her work in Spanish national media (La Vanguardia -through Junior Report-, Público, El Salto, Pikara Magazine, Playground Magazine, Jot Down Kids) and international media (BBC apprentice, DNES collaborator, fixer for Rudaw during the 2019 demonstrations in Catalonia). She was part of the team that developed Nushu, a media that brought news to children through AR and VR platforms. She has also conducted workshops on how to craft journalistic storytelling for Instagram stories in the Col·legi de Periodistes, and she has been a media officer, PR, and CM for the International Dance Film Festival of Barcelona, Choreoscope. She is also a Shutterstock collaborator and a creative Getty images contributor.
I wrote an article, shot footage and took pictures for Playground to talk a out Nowhere, the biggest Burning Man related event in Europe.
A feature about how alopecia areata affects women, published both in Pikara Magazine and in El Salto. I took the pictures and wrote the feature.
I interviewed and took pictures of Pierre Dukan, author of the Dukan Diet, for the Spanish agency Europa Press.
An interview to a PhD immunologist who works for ISGlobal in order to understand the virus better. Producing, filming, and editing.
During 2015, 1.015.078 refugees and migrants reached Europe through the Mediterranean by unseaworthy boats, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This means 799.000 more refugees than the ones that got to the continent in 2014. Worldwide, over 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2015, the highest level of worldwide displacement ever recorded according to the United Nations programme. Last May, I was in the improvised refugee camp located in Idomeni, a very small Greek village by the Greco-Macedonian border. At its peak, up to 14.000 refugees were bottlenecked there after Macedonia closed the border in order to block the route that most of them used to reach central Europe, where they wanted to ask for asylum. Improvised camps, such as the ones in Idomeni and Eko petrol station, were evicted at the end of May by Greek authorities, and refugees were placed in official shelters controlled by the Greek Government. So far this year, UNHCR calculates that more than 290.000 refugees have made their way into Europe, and almost 30% of them are kids. In the camp, children jumped in the rain, they cheerfully chased volunteers and they collected flowers to give away with a big smile. But despite their laughs, which made one wonder if they actually understood what they were going through, sometimes, between their games, they looked at the sky with a blank stare, their faces frozen.
I shot the footage and edited this clip to explain how NUSHU, a media that explains news to children in Augmented and Virtual Reality, works. I worked for NUSHU for over three years, period in which I was in charge of scripting and producing journalistic content for AR and VR platforms, as well as for a comic strip.
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