Marc Sanyé

Hundreds of migrants are living in the barracks of the old central station of Belgrade, on their way through this city, towards Bosnia, in their attempt to reach France, Germany or England. Without food, without electricity, without sanitary services, these people try to raise money to continue their journey. Many need months before resuming their route.

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El embarcadero del pantano de Sau, en la Cataluña central, lleva meses,sin poder usarse debido a la extrema sequia que sufre la zona, el 19 de Abril de 2023.

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View of a boat in the Sau reservoir, the main water supplier to the Barcelona area, in Catalonia. This reservoir is at 1% of its total water capacity. This area of northern Spain has accumulated more than 38 months without regular rain.

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A family from Afghanistan watches from their store next to the train tracks that cross this border, as a freight train passes, towards Macedonia, Europe. Shortly after, the Greek government, evicted this makeshift camp, locking up all the people in militarized camps scattered throughout Greece.

The father and his daughter mourn the death of his wife, due to hypothermia, on a beach in Lesbos, because the boat in which they crossed the Aegean Sea to reach Greece, remained for hours in the drift.

Marc Sanyé (1977) studied photography in Vic in 2000. He moved to Barcelona in 2002 where he studied Photojournalism at the IEFC (Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya). In 2004, and at the same IEFC, he studied Photographic Essay in Conflict Zones and combined it with different courses and workshops in digital photography and post-production.

In 2005 he started working at the EL9NOU newspaper.

Since 2007, different workshops such as Albarracín, Periodismo humano Madrid and Photon in Valencia have added to his teaching.

In 2011 he worked in Melilla to document the work of women porters in the report ACROSS THE FENCE.

Holies, in 2013, documents the Ghanaian community in Catalonia.

In 2015, until today, he begins to document migrations at different borders in Europe. The result is THE OTHER FRONTERA, a work published in different media.

2020, documents the Covid-19 pandemic for different media companies.

In 2021, the AGUA (WATER) project begins, which documents the extreme drought that Catalonia is suffering, and which is part of another long-term project on climate change. He currently works as a photojournalist for the EL9NOU newspaper and as a freelance photographer on different projects.