Sebastian Liste (1985, Spain) is a photographer and a sociologist working across many aspects of contemporary life in Latin America and the Mediterranean Sea area, regions where he grew up and which he knows well.
Sebastian’s extensive documentary work has focused on the lives of diverse communities around the world. By 2009, when Sebastian finished his undergraduate studies, he had visited over 20 countries, including Laos, Ethiopia, Mexico, Mali, Cuba, Nepal, amongst others, where he created visual communication projects based on his deep knowledge of social issues.
On these long-term projects Sebastian, explores the profound cultural changes that occur in our contemporary world. His personal and intimate stories fluctuate between documenting daily life in struggling communities to that of his own family.
His work is enriched by the closeness to his subjects. One issue that he is particularly passionate about, and has been constant in his work, is the culture of resistance, examining how human beings transform their immediate environment to survive. He documents how contemporary life in a community is created and shaped, as we are living an important time in which our way of life is changing and disappearing at the same time, along with our feeling of belonging and identity.
In 2010, while he was attending a Master degree in Photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he won the Ian Parry Scholarship for his long term project “Urban Quilombo”, about the extreme living conditions that dozens of families face, who set up home in an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. The same year he was named the young editorial photographer of the year at the Lucie Awards in New York.
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- Children in the abandonated chocolate factory. Currently are more than 100 families living inside. These families were looking for a decent place to live and a more prosperous future for their children, away from the dangerous streets of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
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- Noemi (38), drugs addicts and mentally handicapped. She works as cook and prostitue to survive after her husband and brother died in a car accident one year ago. She lives inside the abandonated chocolate factory since 2003.
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- Two young boys with no education or work go to the occupied chocolate factory to take drugs. They are talking about how the police was entered in the favela last night. Brazilâs murder rate is now the highest in the world. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense.
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- Two young boys with no education or work go to the occupied chocolate factory to take drugs. They are talking about how the police was entered in his favela last night. Brazilâs murder rate is now the highest in the world. The gravity of this spreading violence is becoming more and more intense.
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- Noemi (38), drugs addicts and mentally handicapped. She works as cook and prostitue to survive after her husband and brother died in a car accident one year ago. She lives inside the abandonated chocolate factory since 2003.
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- Sandro showing his scar. His wife saw him with another woman and she cut him with a glass bottle. Instantly he fainted and had to be hospitalized.
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- Men fighting with knives and wood stick because money and love problems. The stress of living in extreme conditions does increase the signs of violence in the factory.
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- Melanie (22) is actually living with her two sons in a small shack in a old chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia. In spite of the extreme conditions in wich they live, this factory in ruins has become a home for the family.
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- Children playing in a old chocolate factory occupied since 2003 for dozens of families. These families were looking for a decent place to live and a more prosperous future for their children, away from the dangerous streets of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
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