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Gold 2023 People / Culture

Nek Romero

  • Photographer
    Jordi Cohen
  • Agency / Studio
    Jordi Cohen Photography
  • Prize
    Gold in People / Culture

This is a personal photographic project that collects intimate moments and rites of preparation for the young bullfighter New Romero (19), from the Valencian school of bullfighting. He is a young promise in the art of bullfighting who is trying to find an opportunity in this world. He is a Catholic believer boy, with a deep faith that one day the opportunity to succeed in the world of bullfighting will come. The project has tried to capture the moments of prayer and concentration before, during and after the bullfights in the bullring. It is the follow-up work of this young promise of bullfigh

Jordi Cohen is a free-lance documentary photographer based in Barcelona. His work has been published in the New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, National Geographic, Mirror, Sunday Telegraph, CNN Blog, Leica Magazine, La Vanguardia, El Periódico, Photo France, XL Semanal and Piel de Foto among others.Has exhibited in Europe and America, to highlight San Diego Art Institute, CEH “Manege” St. Petersburg, Royal Geographical Society of London, Gallería Hector Garcia of Mexico City, International Festival of Social Photography in Sarcelles (France) and Couvent des Minimes of Perpignan.