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I arrived back in Newcastle, my home city, the day before a two-ship collision in my local port, on the River Tyne. Just a few days later, I found our local beach blanketed in a snow of tiny white plastic pellets, so I grabbed my camera and started documenting what had happened. What began as a photographic record of a historic pollution spill quickly became something much bigger: an archive of an unprecedented grassroots community response involving thousands of residents.

Brand-new exhibition in Prosperidad celebrates the World Cup by bringing football back down to earth, using analogue photography to capture the barrio-level sense of community that has always been at the heart of the sport.

Investigation finds hundreds of victims of migration to the EU lie in unmarked graves along Spain’s borders, with government taking no coordinated action to guarantee “last rights”.

In 2018, the small port of Barbate in Cádiz hosted an eerie exhibition of disused pateras (small boats). The Town Hall’s plan was to raise public awareness around the phenomenon of irregular immigration and the human drama for people who risk their lives to cross the Strait.

As of today, 70 people are still missing, 22 remain in the Nador morgue and at least 37 were killed. Even though the Guardia Civil claimed to have had blood-soaked uniforms during the incident, none of them were harmed.

We don’t know for sure what the origin of the famous Callejón de los Negros (Alley of the Blacks) is, but from the port, this street is the closest access route into the historic centre of Cádiz, and therefore was perhaps the main street through which slaves would commute.