Coltan is a fundamental hiperconductor mineral for the development of the new technologies such us mobile phones, the production of computers, videogames consoles,  intelligent weapons, aeronautical industry, etc. 80% of the world’s reserve of coltan is found in the east of the DR of Congo.The country has been plunged into a extremely complicated conflict with as a many 20 different armed groups operating in North Kivu and South Kivu, which are fundamentally financed by controlling the mines.The working conditions of the miners are extremely tough and dangerous, given that the extraction of the mineral continues to be done in a traditional way. Many miners internally displaced within the conflict, come to the mines leaving other more violent zones, with the intention of finding a way, however precarious, of survival. They must face a 15 hour working day, the danger of constant landslides in the subterranean tunnels where they often lose their live, traveling on routes for many hours transporting on their shoulders 50 kilos bags of coltan down a steep and slippy hill.  All of this for hardly seven dollars a day.   This project  tries to call attention to the working and living conditions of the miners and to show the plundering of the mineral wealth is the main cause of the perpetuation of the conflict in the DR of Congo. Rubaya, North Kivu, 2013.

An estimated 9 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in March 2011.   According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over 3 million have fled to Syria's immediate neighbouring copuntries.These pictures  show syrian refugees living conditions in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, three countries which have given refuge to more Syrians than any others. The report cover a variety of situatios and aspects of their lives: the large refugee camps in Jordan, the small settlements in Lebanon, life in  cities such as Gaziantep or Beirut, child labour, the hospitals where the wounded are treated and so on. Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, 2014.

On December 20, 1989, U.S. troops invaded the small Central American country of Panama. The neighbourhood of El Chorrillo, where General Noriegas's quarters were located, was attacked and almost completely destroyed on that very night in 1989 after a fire had broken out. The subsequient reconstruction of the neighbourhood meant the neighbours who had lost their homes needed to be rehoused in new apartment buildings whose apartments had barely 30m2 of floorspace. The layout of the neighbourhood changed drastically and the problems of delinquency, gangs and social decay have been, according to the residents themselves, some of the most serious consequences of the invasion. Panama, 2014.

Cuba has a system of free universal healthcare. Direct contact with doctors (prevention, primary care and hospitalization) is possible in equal measure all over the island and for its 11 million inhabitants. Mother-and-chid healthcare is one of this health system's priorities. this report look into primary healthcare for women and children in differents parts of the island, from remote rural areas to the capital. Manicaragua, Agramonte, La Habana, 2014.

Over the last decade, the problem of abandoning boats and crews in the port of La Luz in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has been persistent. The fact that such vessels have piled up in the port has led to the appearance of marginal communities an social exclusion. This is because the abandoned boats have been converted into the usual dwelling-places of abandoned crew-members and unemployed seamen with serious financial problems, as well as undocumented inmigrants living in extrem poverty. All of these people deprived of any means of subsistence, live lives of misery aboard rusty derelict vessels in an advanced state of decay, without light o water and, in some cases, they inhale gaseous fumes from motors or the lower-deck. Whitout a doubt, these are unhealthy an unsafe living conditions. Spain, 2012.

Having lost their jobs and their homes as a result of the current economic crisis that Spain is suffering, a group of Maghrebian immigrants have been forced to live under a bridge on the Huerva River in the city of Zaragoza. On occasions, they can use the services offered at the municipal homeless shelter: a daily shower, a card given them 30 meals every 3 month and 6 nights of acommodation every 3 month. Neverless, theris everyday lives take place mostly below this bridge. Here, they sleep, cook, wash, keep their belongings and live as a group. The bridge is their home now. Early Sunday morning, with carts full of all types of objects collected from containers, they head toward the other end of the city, where a clandestine market offers the possibility of obtaining some money from sales. Spain, 2011.