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The resulting material is permanently exposed inside the Santa Anna Monastery in Barcelona, since December 20, 2020. The opening took place on December 20, 2020, and was officiated by the creators of the Field Hospital Xavier Morlans and Peio Sànchez. It was also presented by the protagonist of the story, Meritxell Galindo, in order to denounce and expose the social and economical effects of the pandemic in the city to a public that has never been to Santa Anna before. The project has been published in 28 media, on paper, the internet, and on the local TV, Natgeo Spain and TV3 among them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1618059758312-92PTJB6UAQGSUIICDUIA/Captura+de+pantalla+2021-04-10+a+las+15.01.48.png Santa Anna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1618058882966-44VYAC8JYWNBYV66UPY9/Captura+de+pantalla+2021-02-18+a+las+19.39.31.png Santa Anna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1618058803007-QECQVYL1H4S3FI6HFI9S/Captura+de+pantalla+2021-02-18+a+las+19.40.46.png Santa Anna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940234491-GVHHU72XV6219TEFJDAU/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+01.JPG Santa Anna A street near Las Ramblas, one of the most famous tourist sites in Barcelona, during the coronavirus pandemic. On March 14, 2020, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared a state of emergency and the partial closure of Spain due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, all shops in Spain have to close, except pharmacies and those that sell food and other basic necessities. Citizens, confined to their home, can only leave home for basic supplies, walk dogs or work and can only do so alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940254800-MJC65B2KIOFPZDE8ANVC/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+02.JPG Santa Anna Volunteers preparing food for families inside the Monastery of Santa Anna. During the state of alarm and partial confinement, the Field Hospital distributed more than 200 meals to take to the day, along with food that was distributed to the most affected families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940870791-B5ICVI73THGDOVGXRZ2B/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+03.JPG Santa Anna Vicar Xavier Morlans, one of the founders of the Santa Anna Field Hospital, poses for a portrait after the daily service inside the Church of Santa Anna, in the center of Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940871960-FONPJ41L380ZXH9TNMPQ/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+04.JPG Santa Anna Rector Peio Sánchez and Vicar Xavier Morlans during one of the first masses open to the public in Santa Anna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940868058-NGGCT66XQP2AW12DDEPE/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+05.JPG Santa Anna Pep Albin (right) and his neighbor, two Santa Anna volunteers, delivering food supplies to a family in the Sagrada Família district of Barcelona. Albin and his neighbor are part of the “Families Supporting Families” program, run within the Santa Anna Campaign Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940870980-H1537DAZE02K90PU471T/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+06.JPG Santa Anna Views of one of the buildings near where Albin and his neighbor distribute food, in Cornellà De Llobregat, Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940874305-1UZQFSWOSEQKSG2MJJQ0/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+07.JPG Santa Anna Food provided by Santa Anna cooked in the Honduran style by one of the families helped by Santa Anna in Cornellà De Llobregat, in Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940857085-H5E9KD4ABBTK1OVV0NGB/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+08.JPG Santa Anna One of the people helped by Santa Anna putting up posters to find work in Cornellà De Llobregat, in Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940900112-0GO7CAJM38UOJZDA2ZI0/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+10.JPG Santa Anna Parishioners praying inside the monastery of Santa Anna, during the first mass officiated by the public after the state of alarm was decreed in March. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940902888-9WNMTOVUE3H3VWSDO20W/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+11.JPG Santa Anna Meritxell Galindo, leaving the house of a friend who helps her with food provided by an NGO, in Hospitalet De Llobregat. Galindo worked in a bakery before the pandemic and was fired on March 13. Since then, he hasn't been able to find a job. Galindo lived with her husband in a flat in the Gràcia district, and due to the social and economic effects of the pandemic, they had to move to a shared flat in the suburbs. Galindo is helped by Santa Anna looking for new job opportunities, and previously with food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607943898397-6O06U4FOUHUMKC58D0UW/_DSC1184.jpg Santa Anna "Mi vida no ha cambiado, me la han cambiado, de tener un futuro a verme pidiendo limosna", escribe Galindo en una cartulina. "Pero lo hice, pedí, y tube la suerte de encontrarme con gente que también luchaba, cómo yo". En la fotografía, Galindo y su marido a principios de la pandemia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940899562-PL3JCQTYAJR4HALGZQTA/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+12.JPG Santa Anna Meritxell Galindo posing for a portrait at her friend's house. "What has mattered me the least has been the desease. What really worried me has been staying on the streets, seeing myself with nothing, not having a job, not getting paid. 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During the state of alarm and partial confinement, the Field Hospital distributed more than 200 meals, along with food supplies to the most affected families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/2686dc02-75bc-4ad3-8e4f-1afcd576a779/Maria+Contreras+Coll_02.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Food prepared to be distributed inside Santa Anna Monastery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/88354163-84df-4dc0-8d4d-9478220fb80b/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+03.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Vicar Xavier Morlans, one of the founders of the Santa Anna Field Hospital, poses for a portrait after the daily service inside the Church of Santa Anna, in the center of Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/69deb17e-38f6-4113-a6cd-1f84af7bdfef/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+01.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain A street near Las Ramblas, one of the most famous tourist sites in Barcelona, during the coronavirus pandemic. On March 14, 2020, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared a state of emergency and the partial closure of Spain due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, all shops in Spain have to close, except pharmacies and those that sell food and other basic necessities. Citizens, confined to their home, can only leave home for basic supplies, walk dogs or work and can only do so alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1591718405280-A0X5SSYTI1WAB4ZOB98I/DSC_9981.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain C.M poses for a portrait in her home in Barcelona, in Poble Sec neighborhood. After having to leave her flamenco business during the 2008 Spanish Financial crisis, she has been working as a waitress and being part of the Spanish submerged economy, which represents 25% of the Spanish GDP according to Geshta. She is part of the population that has been more impacted by the economical effects of the COVID-19. Not being able to work due to the pandemic restrictions, and without any savings, she hasn't received any income since March. Since then, she has been going daily to pick up food packages for the first time in her life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1590514718968-M37R0QQ4B6BFTN808E26/AdobeBridgeBatchRenameTemp11Maria+Contreras+Coll_11.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain I found these plastic flowers inside Santa Anna. Some days after, I met C.M in the same place, queuing for food and reading a book “it’s about a princess”, she said. She never queued for food before this pandemic. She had a job, and “normal” life, she says. When the next day we went together to her home, I realized she had very similar flowers next to her bed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/fccbd4ed-e89e-47d0-bf62-67427212ec2d/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+09.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Meritxell Galindo posing for a portrait at her friend's house. "What has mattered me the least has been the desease. What really worried me has been staying on the streets, seeing myself with nothing, not having a job, not getting paid. I even sold the ring that my husband gave me to pay the rent, "says Galindo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/ef345fc6-4bcb-41e0-978f-c57a132d54ff/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+11.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain A meditation activity organized by Vicar Xavier Morlans in Santa Anna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1618067483185-GOJJ9TOWLZ0VHA1HF7OQ/IMG_6118.jpeg Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1618067581493-CEKWHG581HGQJCSQG9IG/IMG_6198.jpeg Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1618067308222-83PDRI7VVMFWOJEEHLQO/Captura+de+pantalla+2021-02-18+a+las+19.40.46.png Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1618067246008-JG0QN6ZAZ2L813I6OYC5/Captura+de+pantalla+2021-02-18+a+las+19.39.31.png Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1620909006272-0Z2TXCB5FTDOZ70J7QWF/Captura+de+pantalla+2021-05-13+a+las+14.23.31.png Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/d7fa875f-88ac-46ba-9080-c76d98ca7461/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+04.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Pep Albin (right) and his neighbor, two Santa Anna volunteers, delivering food supplies to a family in the Sagrada Família district of Barcelona. Albin and his neighbor are part of the “Families Supporting Families” program, run within the Santa Anna Campaign Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1c40875b-7086-4f7e-9e50-08c554b70d5d/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+08.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Meritxell Galindo, leaving the house of a friend who helps her with food provided by an NGO, in Hospitalet De Llobregat. Galindo worked in a bakery before the pandemic and was fired on March 13. Galindo is helped by Santa Anna looking for new job opportunities, and previously with food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/611a7853-2377-42a3-9604-2e1c4be4b100/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+05.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Food provided by Santa Anna cooked in the Honduran style by one of the families helped by Santa Anna in Cornellà De Llobregat, in Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/fe35d335-84c7-4959-8871-38253439e574/TV3-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+15.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Views in Hospitalet De Llobregat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/bb438dc7-9c02-497e-9c3c-2cc23d2f006c/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+07.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Parishioners praying inside the monastery of Santa Anna, during the first mass officiated by the public after the state of alarm was decreed in March. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/7f447ee1-3a2d-4024-a357-d2aff993468a/TV3-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+14.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain Meritxell Galindo watching TV in the house of a friend who helps her with food provided by an NGO, in Hospitalet De Llobregat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/8c8758b0-3a7f-4c82-b3cd-0562383ab077/NG+Esp+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+06.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain C.C, who has been helped by Santa Anna, puts up "job wanted" posters in the streets of Cornellà, Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1607940870980-H1537DAZE02K90PU471T/SA+-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+06.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain The building where C.C lives in Cornellà, and where Pep Albin distributes her food once a week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/106f51bc-3fac-4ccb-acb9-1a2f7aa28a4d/TV3-Maria+Contreras+Coll+-+16.JPG Work - Santa Anna, National Geographic Society - Barcelona, Spain H.H, who is helped by Santa Anna, looking for job opportunities in her home in Raval neighborhood, Barcelona. https://www.mariacontrerascoll.com/work/thejournal monthly 0.5 2022-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/890a1d6a-681f-4e1b-b5e1-d2c63e45007e/MariaContrerasColl_Covid004.JPG Work - The Journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/e250e664-5629-41dd-98c7-5010d9198143/MCC_WP_02.jpg Work - The Journal 31 March 2020. My journal, written in Catalan, my mother tongue. "Sometimes, I imagine how I break with all my mental structures that have been ruling me until now. By doing so, I find stillness and calm". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1589210095089-9818538FAFK5RLN0LCLC/Maria_Contreras+Coll_TooEarly_10.JPG Work - The Journal 24 March 2020. Me watching “Lost In Translation” in my room 1.29 at night, 10 days after the state of alarm was declared in Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1589272665320-607B1QY9CHBHESJMM8AL/Contreras+Coll_Maria_Spain_007.JPG Work - The Journal 18 March 2020. A street near Las Ramblas, one of the most famous touristic sights of Barcelona, during the Coronavirus pandemic. On 14th March 2020, prime minister Pedro Sanchez declared the state of emergency and the partial lockdown of Spain due to the global pandemic COVID-19. Since then, all the shops in Spain are to close except for pharmacies and those selling food and other basic necessities. Citizens, confined in their homes, are only allowed to leave their homes for basic supplies, walk their dogs, or work, and can only do it alone. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1589272658765-5UUK5RFLLJSZD2M0JUTY/Contreras+Coll_Maria_Spain_003.JPG Work - The Journal 18 March 2020. A glove in The Gotic Quarter, one of the most famous touristic sights of Barcelona, during the Coronavirus pandemic. On 14th March 2020, prime minister Pedro Sanchez declared the state of emergency and the partial lockdown of Spain due to the global pandemic COVID-19. Since then, all the shops in Spain are to close except for pharmacies and those selling food and other basic necessities. Citizens, confined in their homes, are only allowed to leave their homes for basic supplies, walk their dogs, or work, and can only do it alone. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1589210809216-A4IYKWDVJKV6SQSLESLJ/Journal_03.jpg Work - The Journal 12 April 2020. My set of masks, wipes, and hand sanitizer that I keep next to my door and that have become a new extension of myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1589209715404-XWT6KHVXE692QBXPE02T/Maria_Contreras+Coll_TooEarly_06.JPG Work - The Journal 26 March 2020. I sometimes wish that this period brings us a brand new path for humanity and that we start treating ourselves and Mother Nature better. Wanting to be completely non-attached of boundaries of the past, today I burned a letter that I’ve never sent to someone.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1589210794279-HAV6Z2EKG6BMOTDXKBWE/Journal_02.JPG Work - The Journal 12 April 2020. Two important celebrations happened so far during our quarantine. My grandmother’s birthday, and Easter. My mother and I celebrated it, trying to keep a sense of normality in our home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1589209910613-8QC9QX7EUI10AU0BH6Q9/MariaContrerasColl_Covid001.JPG Work - The Journal 22 March 2020. The views from my living room in the evening. During the quarantine, spring has arrived, and every day the light hours are longer. 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For the first time in Surekha’s life, she will be considered impure and forced to live in this place for 7 days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588502866383-X9IVKI8P421LL8YFY8YA/DSC_6085.jpg Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal When Surekha Kunwar realized that she had her first period, she was ashamed and tried to hide it. “I don’t feel impure or untouchable”, she wrote during the first bleeding days of her life.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492369344-OU9SQGDLPTYGXX4Z1KCI/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0002.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Narpata Boudha, a Nepalese 47-year-old woman from a remote far western village in Achham district, shows the only instruments she is allowed to use when she is on her period. Menstruating women are not allowed to touch any cooking instrument or the tap water or fountains. They can only use a specific bowl and dish to drink the water and the food that the neighbors might put on it. They can’t eat in the community or partake in any social events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492312166-CLJX5HDVO6EOL9RTX90F/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0001.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal In most of the villages, women share the goth. These spaces are commonly not well ventilated, and at dozens of women and girls have died in recent years from following this tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492377187-G2QYM9R7IV6KVDPQHHWN/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0006.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Surekha Kunwar perched upon a tree to eat some fruits some months after her first period. In some areas, menstruating women are not allowed to touch trees like the Peepal tree, a tree that represents the God Vishnu, and speciffic fruits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492302840-ZXNHU531SGK0B12992TO/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0008.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Surekha Kunwar studies inside her house some months after she had her first period. In her neighbor village, the school is placed near a temple. There, scared of insulting the Gods, menstrual girls usually don’t attend class. Hygiene conditions in most of the schools don’t help with tackling this stigma, so girls just stay home, scared of getting publicly shamed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492246561-6Z6JCM4Z4AQ0OQM3WIIT/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0007.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal The activist Gomati Joshi (left), teaches a class on menstrual hygiene, Chhaupadi and early marriage in a remote village in the Baitadi district. She has been working to change the stigma surrounding menstruation all over the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588238507188-8YI3KZVMIL4J2QM1NWDK/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0009+copia.jpg Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Surekha Kunwar, watching some Nepalese and Indian movies in her friend's smartphone in her house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492736372-C2ZR1OAT3DAQ6SUCYH39/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0017.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Anuja Bhatta, a 16-year-old from Kathmandu, is helped by her mother to wear a saree, a typical female garment, before assisting to a wedding ceremony in Kathmandu. Anuja Bhatta has been one of the first members of the family who is not practicing the Chhaupadi, thanks to the presence of an activist who lives in the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588502786747-ZYK6LRIR0D3MXHSCLF2T/DSC_5737.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Views from a Chhaupadi hut in Achham district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588502731075-H4OHVRSS0ZJPI19CKYJ4/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0010.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal In Kathmandu Valley, a growing number of women are re-interpreting this practice and trying to change it. A lot of them, which are from a rural background, has come to learn how can they do it, and then coming back to the same rural areas to implement it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492732288-GV960ITNB4PIADZ1WQ19/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0019.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Visitors take a selfie in Swayambhunath, an ancient religious temple in Kathmandu Valley. The flood of tourists coming in along with the power of the new technologies are inspiring young Nepalese women and men to adopt a different way of life, and are finding ways to combining it with the old Nepalese culture. In Nepal arranged marriages between the same cast are the most common system, but love marriages are becoming more popular every day, especially in urban areas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/e5695c4d-1bc5-4b27-8d6c-54c251eefc4b/PresentacionGB_09.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Suntala (right) next to the Chhaupadi hut where she is sleeping. In the back, her grandmother, who is the defensor of the practice, and who taught Suntala how to practice it.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588503202032-CYZ6OA0V5XQLQJB5SLW8/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0013.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal In a village near Kathmandu Valley, Radha Paudel, a Menstrual Hygiene Activist, and author draw the feminine reproductive system on a blackboard at a class on menstruation. She has been empowering women in rural and urban areas to fight against all forms of Chhaupadi for the past 10 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/848a2f05-f209-460c-82d0-bfecc48075da/DSC_6388.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Anushree's Bhatta, Anuja's sister, is the youngest member of the family. When she's on her period, she doesn't have to sleep separately from her brother anymore. The only restriction she is practicing is not cooking or going to the temple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588502786756-V4SHPWXBZTKQYIDY4ALD/DSC_6299.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Dive with a friend sharing a Chhaupadi hut during their periods in a remote village of Achham district, Nepal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588503006413-33P8Y26CTXIMCKYHGEB6/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0011.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal On 28 May 2018, Menstrual Hygiene Day is celebrated for the first time in Kathmandu. The main motto of the day is “Education about menstruation changes everything”. Different actors perform various acts for encouraging women to maintain personal hygiene and to transform the Chhaupadi Partha. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/653df5c1-24d6-47a0-b941-c045e35154b1/PresentacionGB_08.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal A healer performs a domestic ritual inside a home in the Achham district. Healers are believed to cure the "impurity" caused by menstruation. "When I walk near a menstruation hut, I feel sick and dizzy", he says. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588503026218-CSNO2Q90MSH1MC2IMQJ9/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0012.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal At the end of Radha's lecture, all the assistants had crossed the hands and promised "we will talk about menstruation at home and in our communities". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492746941-X8BLB5PV6XK0DFGVRB7R/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0018.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Kabita Khdka, a 23-year old woman, lies in her room in a village in Kathmandu Valley. This little construction, separated from the main house, was built after the 2015 earthquake as a second house. Once the family returned to the old one, it’s purposed it’s been to provide a safe space for the women of the family to spend their periods in. Kabita works for an Organisation and takes care of the foreign volunteers that come in and out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492194262-UC44OFDVVTS35792781E/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0005.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal According to Hinduism, menstruation is considered a punishment from the Gods for the women’s sins. Most of the villagers believe that if a woman doesn't follow this tradition, they will be punished with misfortune, diseases, or even death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492754514-HNJNB8BM65D8EISGC73F/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0015.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Swostika Sharma, a 15-year-old student from Kathmandu, draws during an awareness program that Radha Paudel Foundation has organized with the best art students of three different schools. They are participating in a contest to illustrate the motto “Menstruation Is Everyone's Business”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588492185041-ZH68PA64RVV1BJSUUGD2/MariaContrerasColl_JourneyToImpurity0004.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal Surekha Kunwar poses for a portrait inside the hut during her first period. “I can’t believe that this is going to happen every month of my life”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/950ea53f-1c0b-4094-b859-683432d4a27a/DSC_5986.JPG Work - Journey To Impurity - Transforming Menstrual Restrictions in Nepal When Anushree Bhatta had her first period, the family celebrated it with a cake "Happy First Menstruation, Anushree". It is the first time they have celebrated it like this, thanks to the support of an activist who lives in their building, in Kathmandu. https://www.mariacontrerascoll.com/work/mortalagain monthly 0.5 2022-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588957209445-OPOTZ8CRAINM7SHTMXC8/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl02.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Nihira Bajracharya, the Living Goddess of Patan, who is 6 years old, poses for a portrait in the worshiping room of her new home inside the Kumari Temple of Patan, in Kathmandu Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588692244701-3XZOSRV0P0OB6ZL5WRUP/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl12.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal The Kumari of Kathmandu have made an appearance during the Gai Jatra Festival, and citizens had thrown to her high chair rice, flowers, and sweets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588957245269-J5W972FHI58JAE8D0JAA/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl13.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal The former living Goddess of Patan, Unika Bajracharya, who is 10 years old, and who has just been replaced four months ago, applies some makeup in her house in Patan. She has been a Kumari for more than 5 years, and she has gotten used to wearing the typical Kumari makeup. “I was happier when I was a Kumari, especially during the festivities”, she says, “I loved to make people happy with my blessings”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613783541-92O2ERTIY7LCO4YAP492/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl22.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Unika Bajracharya plays with her siblings during a family festivity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613820967-NAI6DFIGW81JA2LKO6JA/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl21.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Unika Bajracharya walks along with her Grandmother and the whole family to a temple. Her grandmother just reached 77 years of age. Before the invention and availability of modern medicine, reaching this age was similar to getting a new life, and during this celebration, the grandmother will be worshipped as a Goddess. The only one that doesn’t have to worship her is Unika, who stopped being a Goddess just 4 months ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613792037-ZHLO39NO3I71RZZJMICS/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl23.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal A Unika Bajrachary’s relative plays with a fishbowl during a family festivity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613642275-PENRDI7YJAH3WVBKM9T8/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl01.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal During the Rato Machhendranath Festival in Patan, military march defiles in front of the Kumari of Patan. She has been assigned a privileged place (just behind them), from where she can see all the festivity rituals. This is the larger festival in the city, where a chariot with a God statue is pulled all over the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613733889-98UH36NUSE740IRLKATC/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl14.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Unika Bajracharya’s mother set her daughter's earnings before a school day. The whole family moved here 4 months ago, after Bajracharya had her first period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613645315-Q1QGWZGQXQY359CXMKNC/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl03.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal The father of the Living Goddess of Patan applies some makeup to her daughter in her home inside the Kumari Temple of Patan in Kathmandu Valley. The usual Goddess make up is black eyeliner and a big red "tikka" on the forehead, that is believed to awake the 3rd eye and to give power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588691766357-NDJ33I2S4P96ZMW4G6DA/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl37.jpg Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal In the Newari community, music is linked with the Gods and their knowledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613660924-MLRVN0WE8PN6EZGLB1ZS/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl07.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Trishna Shakya, the new Kumari of Kathmandu, who was selected in September 2017, is carried by male relatives to assist the Seto Machindranath festival in Kathmandu. This is one of the first times she makes an appearance as a Goddess. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588691983797-RTTD1BFVSAT6M5PVH9V1/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl16.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal When Unika Bajracharya was a Kumari, she used to play too with the same teacher. For him, it is a huge honor to have been the one who instructed her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613671448-8XXLO1W0BMJIWERCCSTI/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl04.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Nihira Bajracharya, the newly selected Living Goddess of Patan, takes her breakfast in her room in Patan with her sister. She can't talk to anyone except her relatives.
 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613754316-ZVA5KQJAUKOY0Y1BKA0F/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl15.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Unika Bajracharya walks with her siblings to the school in Patan, Kathmandu Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613676366-MEATGXY5JRE5YUWT0WCE/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl09.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Citizens gather to see the Rato Machhendranath festival in Patan, where the Living Goddess is making an appearance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613782749-GXLVK7KDQUYISXP8LKOM/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl18.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Matina Shakya's picture, the 12-year-old former Living Goddess of Kathmandu, who has been recently replaced, along with the picture of the Living God of Kathmandu Valley, is seen in her school entrance. "School where Living God and Goddess are students", is written on the banner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613746592-KPAAIKHVBF2LAFQ70RUY/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl11.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal The now-former Living Goddes of Patan, Unika Bajracharya, is carried home by male relatives to the temple where she lives. This is the only time she is allowed to leave the temple, 13 or 18 times a year, for festival occasions, and has always to be carried. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588613740388-87R6BP5RO5GSE55O41V0/MortalAgain_MariaContrerasColl19.JPG Work - I'm Mortal, Again - The Former Living Goddesses in Nepal Matina Shakya, the 12-year-old former Living Goddess of Kathmandu, who has been recently replaced, speaks on the phone with some friends during her school holidays in her home near Durbar Square, in Kathmandu. 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Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777135700-NHJMW8FMJB6XVJGZ10AZ/DSC_5473.JPG Work - The New York Times Inside one of the rooms that temporary Moroccan workers share, in Finca La Cañada, in Almonte, Spain. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777251480-QDUJYMDSZ728IAW0RMRZ/DSC_5733.JPG Work - The New York Times A Spanish farm in Huelva. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588780675501-71JA255V2RZ2OCPDOBC0/DSC_5887.JPG Work - The New York Times Fatima E., a seasonal worker who worked for two weeks and left because no work or money was offered, poses for a portrait in her temporary room in Huelva, Spain. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777231071-20S1IRI9A3A7ATC46JVU/DSC_5823.JPG Work - The New York Times Notes used by a seasonal worker to learn Spanish.CreditMaria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777259361-2K25AAMTK9VRR6CTLO5L/DSC_6766.JPG Work - The New York Times L.H with her daughter in the house they share with nine other women in Spain.CreditMaria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588780682077-TDVGNEEQPSE06UFAJPBZ/DSC_5875.JPG Work - The New York Times Fatima E., a seasonal worker who worked for two weeks and left because no work or money was offered, poses for a portrait in her temporary room in Huelva, Spain. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588780703200-Q77UV9OMFBMH34IBTL5G/DSC_7198.JPG Work - The New York Times L.H with her daughter in the house they share with nine other women in Spain.CreditMaria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777305674-LEP5D2PLUVVSWEHCENZP/DSC_6839.JPG Work - The New York Times One of the women’s passports that are stranded in Spain. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588780684503-IHWPL1ESI4XCPUNEE9BN/DSC_5747.JPG Work - The New York Times Inside one of the rooms that temporary Moroccan workers share, in Finca La Cañada, in Almonte, Spain.CreditMaria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1589462670898-UN4WZBGA9WC0OOMC1C7E/DSC_6252.jpg Work - The New York Times Workers in an ethical farm in Huelva, Spain. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777442486-C1JAWEW5CZY7SK64C8EP/DSC_6222.JPG Work - The New York Times Workers in an ethical farm in Huelva, Spain. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777526697-979CLSUSWQS0X9J29CHD/DSC_6476.JPG Work - The New York Times Workers in an ethical farm in Huelva, Spain. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588780686021-CTKWR2N72NI3G4NH8N6D/DSC_7323.JPG Work - The New York Times One of the 10 women who have filed lawsuits. Like the others, she asked for her identity to be kept secret for fear of how family members and others would react. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777307065-8BE8FBJHO0QF8T7Q3SCD/DSC_5415.JPG Work - The New York Times A seasonal Moroccan worker at a shared kitchen in Finca la Cañada, in Almonte, Huelva, Spain.Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588777441436-REDMWD223PIVK0KGWWCC/DSC_6425.JPG Work - The New York Times Workers on a farm in Huelva, Spain. Under a bilateral agreement, thousands of Moroccan women labor from April to June to cultivate and harvest strawberries in Spain.Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588780881449-RHM71AMTGZDA4Y3KJHB9/DSC_5682.JPG Work - The New York Times A Spanish farm in Huelva. Maria Contreras Coll for The New York Times https://www.mariacontrerascoll.com/work/wekeepwaiting monthly 0.5 2022-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588696927231-JLUHZ08N4F4G9345CDPH/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_01.jpg Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Melilla’s fence, which separates Europe and Africa, spans for 12 km all around the Spanish enclave. Inside, three 6-meter high fences and several metal systems block the passage of the hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants try to reach Europe every year. Only in 2016, 295 people died trying to reach the south of Spain. March 2016, Spanish enclave of Melilla, Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588697149034-J1T1HFAU2HWKFHVUH7G4/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_02.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Melilla’s fence, which separates Europe and Africa, spans for 12 km all around the Spanish enclave. Inside, three 6-meter high fences and several metal systems block the passage of the hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants try to reach Europe every year. Only in 2016, 295 people died trying to reach the south of Spain. March 2016, Spanish enclave of Melilla, Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588697273332-RBBG4SK9V5AQMWCEXOA6/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_04.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Bolingo is an illegal camp in the north of Morocco, where 400 sub-Saharan migrants live while they wait for their opportunity to reach Spain. This settlement is 20km away from Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the North African coast. Some of them try to reach Europe going by rubber boats to Spain or tucked into the bumpers of the vehicles and taken across the border into Melilla. For some, all they have is a life jacket that they will use on their journey by boat to Spain. Those who don’t have money to pay the traffickers, have to try their luck jumping the infamous fence. August, 2016, Nador province, Morocco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695762669-1171LBMSAO8BH5VMS3LZ/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_05.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Melilla’s fence, which separates Europe and Africa, spans for 12 km all around the Spanish enclave. Inside, three 6-meter high fences and several metal systems block the passage of the hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants try to reach Europe every year. Only in 2016, 295 people died trying to reach the south of Spain. August 2016, Spanish enclave of Melilla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695709697-Y9SOJJF73ZRR2V6UQLOB/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_06.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe These are the simple instruments used by migrants to climb the 6 meter tall fences. All those who are caught by a Spanish military police return to Morocco, injured and unregistered. This practice, that has existed for a number of years was made legal in March 2015. It has consistently been denounced as an inhumane practice by several International NGO. August 2016, Spanish enclave of Melilla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695779343-JDKZFCV7FC9ZLLIHIA10/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_07.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Aeisha, a 23-year-old woman from Syria, checks her phone in the military camp of Nea Kavala, Grece. She and her family have been living here for 6 months. The family left Syria 8 months ago hoping to reach Germany as soon as possible and start a new life. Now, they don't know when they'll be able to leave the camp. Here 2,000 refugees have been trapped while waiting for their asylum applications to be approved. "When are we going to be able to continue with our journey?" Asks her. Some migrants and refugees are even considering the possibility to come back to their countries of origin, since they have been months waiting in a very precarious conditions. July, 2016, Tesaloniki, Grece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695805783-C1YOZ7R7TFUVSGPRFMR3/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_12.jpg Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Calais Jungle was a refugee and migrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France. Many who lived in this camp attempted to illegally enter to UK via the Port of Calais or the Eurotunnel by stowing away on lorries, ferries, cars, or trains travelling to the UK. On 26 October 2016, French authorities announced that the camp had been cleared. The picture was taken in July 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695787105-NA29YO00K0GKKKNAXUZR/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_11.jpg Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Moussa, from Afghanistan, looks through the window of the caravan where he lives in Le Jungle, Calais, France. After fleeing his country for being persecuted by the Taliban, Moussa has made a living in Le Jungle. "What else do I need? Here I have everything." Le Jungle, located in the town of Calais, on the north of France, is an illegal refugee and migrant camp where lived almost 10,000 people. Here men and women tried to sneak into the Euro-tunnel every day and reach the United Kingdom. Some of them had already built a life here and there were several shops and businesses. This settlement was evicted in 2016 by orders of the mayor of the city. July, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695817512-63RCC3HAV6IDCIQ1TVM9/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_13.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Moria is an immigration detention camp in Lesbos, a Greek island. Formerly an open space closed its doors after the EU-Turkey agreement. Today, houses 3,000 people who do not know when they will be able to get out of the Center. July, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695804619-71CVNDU6BZFGJIB4GKI0/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_14.jpg Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe In April 2016 a group of Athenian citizens and activists seized the Hotel Plaza as a response for the humanitarian crisis of the refugees and migrants that was hitting Greece. Since then, this self-managed space has been a home for 400 refugees. Fatima Afrin prays in her room, her husband is in Syria helping the Kurdish army and her children are scattered around the world. After a long struggle for her Asylum papers and with the desire to see all her children again, Fatima passed away in Greece in May 2017. July, 2016, Athens, Grece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695811919-L0F7JOSP6S5L8OZ8FV7K/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_16.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Salah Afrin, Fatima Afrin's son, attends one of the daily classes that are run by the hotel volunteers . He could not speak English before he came to the hotel. July, 2016, Athens, Grece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695865833-45GP0UKQMV9K5SWCJXX2/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_19.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe German flag in Nadym Maher's home. Maher is a Syran refugee who is now sharing a home with a German family. July, 2016, Berlin, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695856259-A50OKTMAKAACOKLFARVY/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_17.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Nadym Maher, a 25-year-old Syrian refugee, enjoys a relaxing time swimming on a lake in Berlin, Germany. Nadym swam two kilometers of Aegean Sea to seek refuge, from Turkey to the Greek island of Kastellorizo. That was the safest way that he found to reach Europe. July, 2016, Berlin, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695855925-RH1LH1F9ED8RCAMWX1HQ/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_18.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Most of the asylum seekers like Nadym live in Tempelhof before the approval. This is Germany’s biggest refugee camp. This airport built in Berlin in 1923 by the Nazis, houses around 13,000 migrants waiting for permanent accommodation. July, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695857158-O30JGNE5VX0RUD2JCUT9/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_20.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Tempelhof is Germany’s biggest refugee camp. This airport built in Berlin in 1923 by the Nazis, houses around 13,000 migrants waiting for permanent accommodation. July, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695871371-11R4I5VONTB5AFACNGJW/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_21.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe A group of people protests with the motto "Stop Deportation" and "Fight Fortress / Europe" in Berlin, Germany. Migrants from African countries assure that they do not receive the same treatment as people of other nationalities as Syria. "We are sent to camps outside the city and we do not have the same assistance", says one of them. July, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695912853-P97G7A5BRE96X53HCUUA/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_25.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe A rally against the new working law, in Paris, France. July, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695915997-ETTWRIRXYF2AXH4DFT7T/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_26.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe A deployment of french police block the pass of hundreds of protesters on a rally against the new working law, in Paris, France, where some migrants are attending. July, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695931776-EKNKKIZ02JLD4RSW65YK/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_27.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe A group of people protests with the motto "Stop Deportation" and "Fight Fortress / Europe" in Berlin, Germany. Migrants from African countries assure that they do not receive the same treatment as people of other nationalities as Syria. "We are sent to camps outside the city and we do not have the same assistance", says one of them. July, 2016, Berlin, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695908471-QWAPI5VO1QG5AKCZ4D8L/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_33.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Cheik, a 29-years-old man from Senegal, left his hometown with his carpenter's diploma under his arm looking for the "European Dream". When he stepped on Tarifa three years ago, he couldn't imagine that it was going to be this hard. The young African man spends his days looking for something saleable on the trashes of Barcelona meanwhile at night sleeps on an occupied house. December, 2016. Barcelona, Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695965341-4NXVABVCZERKPQYVYXTU/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_34.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Cheik, a 29-year-old Senegalese man, visits an informal settlement where some of his friends live in the San Martín neighborhood of Barcelona, Spain. Cheik left his hometown with his carpenter's diploma under his arm looking for the "European Dream". When he stepped on Tarifa three years ago, he couldn't imagine that it was going to be this hard. The young African man spends his days looking for something saleable on the trashes of Barcelona meanwhile at night sleeps on an occupied house. December, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695959087-2OS5FZ42CKD7HM7HBK24/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_32.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Cheik, a 29-year-old Senegalese man, looking for something saleable on the streets of Barcelona. December, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695998140-4865AWFYYGLG2NTR1RC5/DSC_6467.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Cheick in his room near Badalona. December, 2016, Barcelona, Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695962803-3G5GH2CQD5KUBCFCS0WE/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_28.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Rana Bousaad, a 32-years-old Syrian refugee, speaks with her family who still lives in Syria, in her new home in Sant Cugat, Barcelona, Spain. She and her family have been living here for the past year. "We have had no help at all...until now we had been living with another family in a tiny house." For most of the refugees and migrants, one of the most challenging moments yet is integrating when they arrive in a different country. They have to deal with the psychological effects of having faced persecution, violence and war, whilst adapting to a new culture. January, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695994523-EKFDSV83QTF0W4HJAGE0/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_29.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Rana Bousaad, a 32-year-old Syrian refugee, cleans up her kitchen in her house in Sant Cugat, Barcelona. January, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e9aac2d9e1a4f768ccf86f5/1588695987452-ITJHSWHB8VYJX522Q4XG/Maria+Contreras+Coll_WEKEP_35.JPG Work - We Keep Waiting - Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe Rana Bousaad and her son Danial Bousaad in their home in Sabadell. January, 2016.