This series show how the passion and fondness for a team creates a market that worth millions and how the Barcelona, as its slogan says, is a team that unites the world. When I was 16, I found my mom’s old Canon AE-1; I looked through the view finder and, suddenly, everything made sense. Ever since, I have adopted photography as a way of seeing and living life. Because of the country where I come from (Colombia), it was impossible for me not to be attracted by stories that, I believe, need to be told in order to create a society conscious of itself.
This way of understanding the world was completely reaffirmed when I started to study and learn from the work of Stephen Ferry. After a fortunate encounter, we started to meet regularly to discuss his life work and his new project “Violentologia”. Stephen’s work represented a completely different concept regarding journalism. Not only did it mean to get involved with the subject but to give voice to a story that you thought should be told. It was then when I realised that investigative long form journalism was the direction that I wanted to take. Therefore, I started to investigate and study passionately photographers that are now my benchmark, such as Christopher Anderson, Ron Haviv, Tim Herrington, Jonas Bendikse, just to mention a few. Now, I have reached a point where I can’t go further on my own. What I need now is someone to teach me concepts, techniques and perspectives that I just can´t learn by myself.
It’s here where I think that the ICP can give me the tools I require to pursue my interests. It has the best faculty that a photography school could ever envision. It is a place where students can create collective knowledge through discussion and analysis, learn the fundamentals in which sustain their work and develop a strong sense of responsibility that as journalist we need to have.
It is because all these reasons that I want to become one of those fortunate photographers that have the opportunity of studying in the ICP.
