"I am a documentary photographer from Barcelona. I hold a BA in Design and I've worked for a few years as a graphic designer until 2010, when I decided to devote to photography full time. In 2011 I moved to London where I graduated with distinction on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the LCC.
Since then, I've been working on social documentaries in Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa and South America. I feel honoured my work has been awarded in several international competitions such as the DB Award for Photography, the AOP Student Photographer of the Year, the POYi, the Lucie IPA Awards, and recently winner of the Taylor-Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
I publish and work for a wide range of international media, and I'm represented by German agency Laif. Currently I combine personal long-term projects with editorial and corporate assignments."
The project Menonos depicts de life and the inner struggles lived in the Mennonite communities in Eastern Bolivia. Mennonites are Christian Anabaptis who arrived during the fifties from Canada, Mexico or Belize, hoping here they'd be able to preserve their lifestyle. Nowadays they live on the same way their ancestors did; with no cars, telephones, electricity or modern utilities. However, the pressure of the surrounding society is creating difficulties for them to survive.
©Jordi Ruiz Cirera
This documentary work focuses on the relations and the family roles within the Mennonite community, as well as their deep isolation from contemporary society.
They arrived in Bolivia during the fifties, coming from Canada, Mexico or Belize, where their lifestyle was being threatened. In Canada the young people was...