Madrid, Spain
1 review$150 - $350 / Day
Edu León is a Spanish photographer . His work focuses on social conflicts and has devoted more time to migration issues. In Europe, together with the photographer, Olmo Calvo developed a project called "Invisible Borders" (www.fronterasinvisibles.org) that shows the situation at European borders and identity controls in Spain. He has also worked with international organizations such as the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Intermón Oxfam, among others. Media collaborator like El País, Univisión Noticias and Getty Images in Latin America, and their images have been published in international media such as The Guardian, Time, Newsweek, Vice News, New York Times. Filmmaker for organizations such as UN Volunteers, CARE Ecuador, Aldea Foundation. -Instructor of various workshops with the indigenous community of Ecuador and population in human mobility -Training of audiovisual producers and creation of the communication network of the peoples and nationalities of zone 1 of Ecuador held during the month of May 2014. -The photo-voice workshop "Other looks, other realities" aimed at migrants residing in Quito. The motivations of this project are to make the migration visible and the contributions that come with it, treating photography as a therapeutic method for people in vulnerability, April 2016. -Instructor of various workshops with the indigenous community of Ecuador and population in human mobility -Training of audiovisual producers and creation of the communication network of the peoples and nationalities of zone 1 of Ecuador held during the month of May 2014. -The photo-voice workshop "Other looks, other realities" aimed at migrants residing in Quito. The motivations of this project are to make the migration visible and the contributions that come with it, treating photography as a therapeutic method for people in vulnerability, April 2016. -Teacher of the workshop "Photography management and life stories with a focus on culture of peace and human mobility", for the Scalabrinian Mission of Ecuador as a member of Fluxus Foto, November 2019. Winner of the “Photojournalism for Peace” Quito 2016 award. Nominated for Gabriel García Márquez Award, Medellín 2017. Honorable Mention in RM Photobook Competition Editorial, Barcelona 2017. Gabriel Garcia Márquez Award Finalist, Medellin 2019. Exhibitions: “Migra-ON”, a collective cross-platform collective exhibition where the spectator can plan their own visual journey through these migratory realities, by the hand of visual creators and documentary filmmakers who are working in the region. Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico October 2019. "Migrating is Touching Earth", an exhibition within the Ibero-American Congress on Trafficking, which tells the reality of the Venezuelan exodus through a sound and visual journey along the path they take to leave their country. Flacso, Ecuador, August 2018. Cumanda Art Center, Quito, April 2019. Esmeraldas Exhibition Center, Ecuador, November 2019. Patronage of the city of Ibarra, Ecuador, January, 2020. “Visible Cities”, collective exhibition with the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation, on visual stories in Latin American cities. Metropolitan Cultural Center, Quito, October 2017, “Survivors of the Earthquake of the Coast of Ecuador”, collective exhibition on the earthquake in Ecuador in April 2016. Parque Ichimbia, Quito. “So Wout La / En el Camino”, exhibition on the migratory situation of Haitian migrants in Ecuador. Flacso, Quito, June 2016. “A-Fronteras”, an exhibition that talks about the African-American reality in Ecuador, Quitumbe, Quito, December 2016. “La 3x8, Behind the city”, an exhibition about the reality of the May 24 neighborhood of Quito, which focuses on rescuing human heritage and rescuing from memory this neighborhood in the historic center of Quito. Metropolitan Cultural Center, Quito, 2015. “Invisible Borders”, an exhibition that makes a complaint about the persecution of migrants in the Spanish State, this exhibition toured several cities in Spain, and was in cities in Latin America such as Buenos Aires and Quito.
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In the imagination of many young people in southern Ecuador, migrating to the United States is the only option to prosper. But many of those who went out in search of the 'American dream' disappeared along the way. Without news about whether their children are alive or dead or bodies to watch over, the mothers hope they will return one day.
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Accompaniment to Venezuelan migrants on irregular roads, or trails, after the Ecuadorian government requested a passport, a request that makes many of the migrants unable to pass regularly on their trip.
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Testimony to photojournal tavres of Venezuelan migrants on their way to a better future in Peru or Ecuador. Also the photographic accompaniment of that path.
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The decision of Ecuador and Peru to demand a passport at the border from Venezuelans fleeing the economic and political crisis in their country has led these migrants to a race against the clock to avoid crossing illegally. In a week in which an Ecuadorian judge ended up lifting the measure temporarily, this is the path that some of them have made, a photographic accompaniment to this journey with
Photo and audio report that tells the Ecuadorian migration to the United States that has been taking place for decades. Listening to the stories of mothers waiting for their missing children on that road to the American dream.
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