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Beijing, China. May 2016. 

A security guard at the door of the Forbidden City of Beijing protects himself from the sun under an umbrella.

Un agente de seguridad, a las puerta de la Ciudad Prohibida de Pekin, se protege del sol bajo un paraguas.

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Buenos Aires, Argentina. November 2014.

A group of young hang out in a skatepark in Mataderos neighborhood, at the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Un grupo de jóvenes se divierte en un parque de skate en el barrio Mataderos, a las afueras de Buenos Aires.

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Marrakech, Morocco. July 2012. 

Two boys buy orange juice in one of the stands in the Jemaa el-Fna square. This square is the heart of the old Medina of Marraketch, around which the local commerce revolves, now totally focused on tourism.

Dos chicos compran un zumo de naranja en uno de los puestos que hay en la plaza de Jemaa el-Fna. Esta plaza es el centro neurálgico de la Medina vieja de Marraketch, en torno a la cual gira el comercio local, hoy totalmente enfocado al turismo.

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Tupiza, Bolivia. August 2014. 

It is December 6 and the streets of Tupiza are preparing for the celebration of Independence Day. As every year, students from each of the schools in the region perform a choreographed march through the center of the city, wearing colorful costumes of colonial court. A teacher carries with it a banner holded in a cross, a gift for his long work at school.

Es 6 de diciembre y las calles de Tupiza se preparan para la celebración del Día de la Independencia. Como cada año, los estudiantes de cada una de las escuelas de la región realizan una marcha coregrafiada que recorre el centro de la ciudad, enfundando coloridos trajes de corte colonial. Una profesora carga consigo un estandarte en forma de cruz, obsequio por su larga labor en la escuela.

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Nakhimov Naval Academy of Sevastopol, Crimea. April 2013.

Students at the entrance of the Nakhimov Naval Academy of Sevastopol. This school, located on the Crimean Peninsula, was the main naval school of Ukraine, which receives many international students each year. After the civil war starts in Ukraine, following the protests unleashed in November 2013 known as Euro Maidan, in 2014 Crimea became a federal district of Russia. In the picture is possible to appreciate the Ukrainian shield was still presiding over the institution.

Estudiantes en la puerta de la Escuela Naval Nakhimov de Sevastopol. Esta escuela, ubicada en la Península de Crimea, era la principal escuela naval de Ucrania, a la que asisten además cada año numerosos estudiantes internacionales. Después del inicio de la guerra civil en Ucrania, desatada tras las protestas en noviembre de 2013 conocidas como Euro Maidan, en 2014 la península de Crimea pasó a ser un distrito federal de Rusia. En la foto se aprecia aún el escudo de Ucrania presidiendo la institución.

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Errachidia, Marruecos. July 2012. 

Children bathing in a ditch to relief from the high temperatures, over 50 degrees during summer days in the city of Errachidia, gateway to the Sahara desert in the southest region of Morocco. They do it after leaving school, where various European NGOs give workshops during the summer months.

Un grupo de niños se baña en una acequia para aliviarse de las altas temperaturas que, durante los días de verano, superan los 50 grados en la ciudad de Errachidia, puerta de entrada al desierto del Sáhara en la región sureste de Marruecos. Lo hacen tras salir de la escuela, donde diferentes ongs europeas realizan cursos durante los meses de verano. 

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Pu-Erh, Yunan. China. May 2016. 

Woman collects leaves in a tea plantation of Pu-erh region, in Yunan province (China). Pu-Erh is considered one of the meccas of tea in the world, giving name to the more traditional variety of fermented tea.

Although in recent years they have begun to use machinery for collecting tea, the traditional way of gathering, and the most appropriate, is the manual. This allows you to select the new shoots, and allows the plant to maintain a steady and sustained production.

Una mujer recolecta hojas de té en una plantación de la región de Pu-erh, en la provincia de Yunan (China). Pu-Erh es considerado una de las mecas del té en el mundo, dando nombre a la variedad más tradicional de té fermentado.

Aunque en los últimos años han empezado a utilizarse maquinarias para la recolecta de té, la forma tradicional de recolecta, y la más indicada, es la manual. Esto permite seleccionar los nuevos brotes, y permite a la planta mantener una producción constante y sostenida.

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Prishtina, Kosovo. July 2016. Man hits the weight of a boxer-punching machine, while many others look at him. This attraction has become very popular in Prishtina, Kosovo, where many of them are installed along the main commercial street, Mother Theresa street, during the summer nights.

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Errachidia, Morocco. July 2012. 

A group of men waiting dinnertime during the month of Ramadan, around a table with food already served. The high temperatures during summer in Errachidia, southeastern Morocco, which reach 50 degrees some days, make even more difficult to stand the fast.

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Asunción, Paraguay. December 2014. 

Two policeman held their weapons at the entrance of a police station in the center of Asuncion, near by the presidential palace, "Casa de los López".

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Srebrenica, Bosnia i Herzegovina. 11th july 2015. Man carries the coffin where the remains of his father are resting after 20 years of search. He is one of the victims of the genocide committed in Srebrenica the 11th of July of 1995, when thousands of males, whose only guilt was to belong to a different religion or ethnical group, were massively murdered. To remember it shouldn´t be a way to increase the hunger for revenge, but to learn about the past and agree on that these facts should never happen again.

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Group of muslims from all over the world make a stop in Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba, while they make a tour around the roots of Islam in Andalusia. Stand on the roof of a mosque-house constructed by Mansur Escudero, a muslim convert who created in 1989 the first islamic organization in Spain, called Junta Islámica. 

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Rexhep Gashi, 60 years old, wearing a qeleshe, a white cap traditionally worn by Albanians, while he works for the travel company BeInKosovo at Germia Park, in Prishtina. He rules a farm at the outskirts of the city, where he has been living since he came back from Switzerland. He spent 20 years of his life there, as many other Kosovars who found in the alpine country a refuge to create a better life.

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“NEW HISTORY WITH FINANCIAL STREET”. Street in one traditional neighborhood in the center of Shanghai which has been demolished to build skyscrapers which soon will host new offices and expensive apartments. This phenomenon is repeating all over the country during the last ten years. China is changing fast, it´s cities, it´s society, it´s way of living is getting far from the communist and developing into deep capitalist system. 

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Jérôme Huffer, photography editor of Paris Match magazine (first on the right), among others of the participants of the WARM Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia i Herzegovina. 

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Garganta del Diablo. Cataratas de Iguazú. 25/11/14

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Rumbo a Buenos Aires!