Purgatory

• Photographer
  Alfons Cabrera
• Agency / Studio
  Freelance
• Technical Info
  Sony A7iii + Sigma 24-79mm 2.8
• Photo Date
  25th April 2024

In the courtyard, the Russian prisoners form two lines before being searched. After the control, they stand again in two rows, all with their hands behind their backs, many with their heads bowed. In western Ukraine, a former Soviet prison has been turned into a camp for Russian prisoners of war. It's the biggest one in Ukraine, and the prisoners will say later that it's the best, and that's why they show this one. The atmosphere is gray and silent, but not very oppressive. This is a report done in April 2024 in a press tour in a prisoners camp in western Ukraine for Russian POWs.

Born in Barcelona in 1982, after graduating in Medicine, I got my life straightened out: I studied Photography at IDEP Barcelona and Communication of Armed Conflicts at Complutense Univ. of Madrid. Since 2017, I have reported in Catalonia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Morocco, Spain, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Dominican Rep, Haiti, Andorra and Monaco. I have published articles and photo essays on La Vanguardia, ABC, Vilaweb, Ara, ABC, Descifrando la Guerra, Cultura Inquieta and Brecha, and my pictures have been on Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, 20 Minutes, Dagbladet and Zeit, among many others.