Risking their life, they cross deserts and a strait, and are the victims of dishonest smugglers, then end up as illegal immigrants exploited by slave traders of modern times who offer them illegal work, paying them a miserable amount of money, with no rights, no papers, no health care, no respect… It took me four years to make this photographic work and to better understand the route of suffering and fear which these men and women have to take. I’ve followed and shared their journey on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, mostly in the cities and around Tarifa, Tangiers and the two Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla. For the thousands of candidates to the eldorado, the cities are the entry gates of illegal immigration to Europe.
Risking their life, they cross deserts and a strait, and are the victims of dishonest smugglers, then end up as illegal immigrants exploited by slave traders of modern times who offer them illegal work, paying them a miserable amount of money, with no rights, no papers, no health care, no respect… It took me four years to make this photographic work and to better understand the route of suffering and fear which these men and women have to take. I’ve followed and shared their journey on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, mostly in the cities and around Tarifa, Tangiers and the two Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla. For the thousands of candidates to the eldorado, the cities are the entry gates of illegal immigration to Europe.