La grieta

Astisendo Grupo Editorial La Grieta Comic Red . The identity crisis of Europe in focus. Photographer Carlos Spottorno and reporter Guillermo Abril, winners of a World Press Photo in 2015, have created with The Crack a visual essay about what is happening at the external borders of the European Union. After three years of work that began in December 2013, several covers, dozens of pages published in magazines, and a World Press Photo, photographer Carlos Spottorno and reporter Guillermo Abril consider giving a different narrative form to the 25,000 photos and 15 notebooks completed, to tell the story of what is happening at the borders of the European Union. Through the pages of The Crack, an encounter with Sub-Saharan Africans in Gurugú takes shape, the rescue of a boat off the coast of Libya, the exodus of refugees from the Balkans, NATO tanks facing Belarus, and the Arctic forests where Finnish recruits test their limits, while Afghan and Cameroonian refugees arrive with their suitcases from Russia in the middle of winter. The Crack is the field diary of two reporters who travel the border from Africa to the Arctic, in order to unravel the causes and consequences of Europe´s identity crisis. This work by Spottorno and Abril is like a photographed report, a visual essay with a very current geopolitical background. Halfway between a photobook and a graphic novel, as it uses elements of the narrative of the latter, the result is a story that is not based on real events: they are real events. tradeinn Techinn