The Battle of Urquinaona

• Prize
  Silver in Editorial/General News
• Photographer
  Alfons Cabrera
• Technical Info
  Sony A7iii, 28-70 3.5-5.6
• Photo Date
  18th October 2019

A general strike in Catalonia, on 19th October 2019, ended up with clashes between pro independence pretestors and Spanish police in Urquinaona Square (Barcelona). It was the fifth day in a row of massive protests after the Spanish Supreme Court sentenced the imprisonment of six members of the Catalan government, the speaker of Catalan Parliament and two prominent social acivists.

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.