Barcelona, Spain
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Request QuoteJordi Ruiz Cirera (b. 1984) is an award winning documentary photographer and filmmaker based between Barcelona and Geneva. He combines personal long-term projects with editorial, NGO and corporate assignments for broad range of international clients. In the last years he has been the recipent of global awards including winner of the Taylor-Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Magnum Emergency Fund Grant, the DB Award for Photography, Magnum 30 under 30, AOP Student Photographer of the Year, POYi, Lucie Awards or the Magenta Flash Forward. He is a regular contributor of media such as the NY Times, the Sunday Times Magazine or the Guardian. He has also published on National Geographic, TIME, Newsweek, Die Zeit, BJP or El Pais and collaborated with NGOs including MSF/Doctors without Borders, Save the Children or WaterAid. In 2014 he published his first monograph, Los Menonos, with independent publishing house Editions du LIC. He holds a degree in Design, and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication.
The unexpected story of a young mother who commutes from Mexico to the US every day. Karla Nutter is one of thousands of dual citizens who straddle a line that members of their families are barred from crossing. This is the story of her daily commute.
Produced for BBC World Service
Footprints follows Elisavet Ticona, a migrant from the countryside who after living in harsh conditions with her daughters in El Alto, Bolivia, eventually entered the construction sector attracted for it's high wages, where she faced strong discrimination and sexual harasment from her colleagues she joined efforts to create the first Union of Women Construction Workers.
Video for South African NGO Khula Foundation, describing the charity's work and impact in 19 schools in the Zulu heartland, supporting thousands of children, and thus their communities.
Documentary Showreel 2020
A short documercial film I shot in Mexico following Phil Martin on his search to find the best producers for his tortilla factory in Ireland. Blanco Niño makes awesome, authentic and naturally gluten free corn tortillas from beautiful nixtamalised and volcanic stone ground maize in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland.
Produced for The Guardian
Almost a thousand people enter Mexico daily, heading for the US. Some never make it – they are kidnapped, imprisoned or killed along the way. Each year, in a bid to find their lost loved ones, a group of women from Central America travel together across Mexico, raising their voices in protest, publicising photographs of the missing and sharing each other’s pain. This is their story
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