Pau Coll
Photography and Participatory Workshops
(Badalona 1983) Studied photography at the l’Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics of Catalonia and specialized in photojournalism and documentary photography. In 2005, he joined with five other photographers and formed the organization RUIDO Photo where he works now.
He has produced different photographic reports and documentaries in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Algeria, Nepal, Europe, accumulating experience in jails in different cities, refugees or humanitarian emergencies. He has also developed different social projects of participatory photography highlighting ACV, projects of community intervention through photography in different Catalan prisons.
He has published the book, “Testimonis de l’oblit, el poble Saharauí a l’exili” for the ONG Catalana “Amics del Poble Saharauí” (2008). Also, he has published the book “Kuidado ke muerden” about the punk movement in the island of Cuba (editorial Banizu Nizuke 2012) and has received different international and national awards for photography: highlighting “Objetivo Abierto”, organized by the government of Valencia and the news agency EFE (2009), finalist award for investigative journalism Gabriel García Márquez (2013), and finalist of the Alexia Foundation scholarship (2014). He has produced the documentary “Un any a presó” about the life in prison of five immigrants in the juvenile jail of Catalonia; this piece has been shown in different festivals of human rights and on television.
Currently Pau Coll is a professor of photojournalism in the CFD (centro de Fotografía Documental de Barcelona) and IEFC (Institut d’Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya) and collaborates with teachers in different centers of photography around Barcelona.
Wangala
Exhibitions
Primary
Exhibitions
Primera línea
Exhibitions
Primary - En la primera línea de la deforestación
Photography
Letters from Brians
Participatory Workshops
The Game - Police violence at the gates of Europe
Photography
THE BACKWAY
Books
Effects of Hate
Exhibitions
International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP) Face to Face with Violence
Exhibitions
The Game
Exhibitions
The Backway: from Africa to Europe
Photography
The Backway: the whole migratory route
Exhibitions
Underexposed
Participatory Workshops
On the front line
Photography
The Backway - La Vanguardia
Media
The Extreme Europe - Revista 5W
Media
Without water in the country of rain
Media
Jails in El Salvador
Media
Inside, prisoners photographing prisoners - Media
Media
The Dark Land - El Faro
Media
On the Road - Publications
Media
Various projects
Media
Mission, vision and values
What is RUIDO?
Financial transparency
What is RUIDO?
balance report
What is RUIDO?
Africa in feminine: struggles and victories of women in Gambia
Photography
The Backway: at the origins of African migration
Exhibitions
Without Water in a Rainy Country
Photography
La quinta del chabolo
Photography in Prisons
The prison in black & white
Participatory Workshops
INSIDE
Audiovisual
Portfolio Review
Services
The Mud of Europe
Photography
Dark Land
Photography
The Mud of Europe. Street Exhibition
Exhibitions
The Faces of the CIE
Photography
Photobooth on Caixaforum
Exhibitions
Kuidado ke muerden. Short.
Audiovisual
Beyond The Paradise
Photography
Participatory photography in prisons
Participatory Workshops
CIE: Liminal process
Exhibitions
10 years of RUIDO Photo
Exhibitions
The Shadow Chronicles
Photography
Al son del Punk/Kuidado ke muerden. Photography book.
Books
Kuidado ke muerden
Participatory Workshops
No home land
Photography
Shadow Chronicles
Exhibitions
Mira’m bé: Photo Booth
Participatory Workshops
Latin American Stories
Exhibitions
Indigrafías
Participatory Workshops
Plaster City
Photography
"Testimonis de l'oblit"
Books
Sahara: A Blind Heritage
Participatory Workshops
El recés. Participatory project.
Exhibitions
Photobooth at CaixaForum
Services
Project Menara for the Foundation Three Cultures of the Mediterranean
Services