Through my lens(eye)

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Spain | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 | 5 photos

My name is Santiago Florez I’m a Colombian anthropologist who loves to travel. As a hobby I approached photography in my first year of college and since then it has grown into a passion.

This set of photos came to be in a really surprising situation. For the first time in 4 years my family took a trip together celebrating that my little brother has just finished high school. For us as Colombians, Spain has always been mandatory destination (in Latin America we refer to Spain as the mother land), for us is a visit to our colonial roots and part of our history.

During our trip we could see the economic recession was affecting almost everything in Spain and how young people were protesting their unconformity with their government and society.

These set of photos come from a visit to Barcelona a city packed with tourist but that shows the problems of the last economic recessions and youth protests.

Protest and Recession is the name of this set of photos. It’s inspired in the mood that prevailed during the summer in the news across Europe and the world. For me these photos show the human side of the economic downturn on how individuals react in different ways to a situation that affects the whole of society.