Sebastian Liste
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Sebastian Liste
Sebastian Liste Urban Quilombo This project is a tes.mony of a place that no longer exists. Eight years ago sixty families occupied the "Galpao da Araujo Barreto”, an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Prior to establishing in this place, these families lived throughout the dangerous streets of the city. In 2003, these families came together to seize this deserted factory, which lay in ruins, and they transformed it into a home. Since 2009, I have been documen.ng Barreto. From my studies in sociology, I understood that this was a unique community. This vast sub culture within the greater city became one extended family. They created a microcosm in which the problems of drugs, pros.tu.on and violence tackled with the support of the community. Today, life in a community is a form of revolu.on. Barreto was a place where the exchange of ideas, goods and services created a bond of iden.ty that allowed the survival of its members in a society that marginalizes them. Thus, community life is a form of struggle and resistance. Resistance to a society that considered they as a dysfunc.onal organ. Two years ago I came to Barreto to explore how communi.es formed within fragmented socie.es as a mechanism of survival. During the years, I have witnessed almost everything that one can live: love, despair, betrayal, lust, passion, unity, friendships, empathy, internal and external conflicts, forgiveness and a sense of family. Since my first visit in 2009, I con.nued to return several .mes by myself un.l March, 2011, when the government evicted these families from the factory, as one of the many aUempts to clean up the visible poverty of the center of Brazilian ci.es. This is mainly due to the upcoming interna.onal events to be held in Brazil in the next years, like the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Brazil has begun to teeter on the brink of human rights viola.on as it con.nues with the displacement of favelas in a reckless manner. By the .me, these families relocated, there were around 130 families living in Barreto, an area approximately the size of a football field. Although Barreto, the physical place, no longer exists, the community remains. The families that once lived in Barreto now live together in the “Jardim das Margaridas”, a marginalized neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. My main objec.ve is to document the emo.onal and physical .es between the different families, how the community is managing their rela.onships and meanwhile, how they con.nue to build their dignity. This community is a metaphor for a place where the tragic decomposi.on of human life combines perfectly with the magic realism of La.n America. 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He obtained a Bachelors degree in Sociology at the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), and a Masters in the Arts in Photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Sebas.an's extensive documentary work has focused on the lives of diverse communi.es around the world. By 2009, when Sebas.an finished his undergraduate studies, he had visited over 20 countries, as Laos, Ethiopia, Mexico, Mali, Cuba, Nepal, among others. His long‐term projects explore the profound cultural and iden.ty changes that occur in our contemporary world. Through his personal and in.mate stories that fluctuate between documen.ng daily life in struggling communi.es to that of his own family. His work has been interna.onally recognized by POYi, NPPA, Sony WPO, Lucie Awards, Paris PX3, Anthropographia, CENTER Awards, Fotovisura Spotlight Grant, Onward, Reinassance Prize, Terry O´Neill Award, among others. His photographs have appeared at The Sunday Times Magazine, Photo District News, Bri.sh Journal of Photography, FotoVisura, and other publica.ons. He has par.cipated in numerous exhibi.ons at the GeUy Images Gallery, Host Gallery, Hotshoe Gallery and Mall Galleries in London, Espace Dupon and Spéos Gallery in Paris, Gallery 291 in San Francisco, VII Dumbo, Splashlight Studio Soho, PowerHouse Arena, New Atlan.c Gallery in New York, Maison des Arts du Grütli in Geneva as well as in various galleries in Spain. In 2010 was the recipient of the Ian Parry Scholarship for his long term project “Urban Quilombo” about the extreme living condi.ons that dozens of families faced when they came together to set up a home in an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Recently, Sebas.an was selected to par.cipate at the 2011 Joop Swart Masterclass from World Press Photo. SEBASTIAN LISTE AWARDS/GRANTS/SCHOLARSHIPS 2011 Joop Swart Masterclass par.cipant, World Press Photo | Netherlands 2011 POYí Emerging Vision Incen.ve, Finalist | USA 2011 NPPA, Best of Photojournalism, honorable men.on | USA 2011 Daylight / CDS Photo Awards, Juror Pick winner | USA 2011 Sony WPO Documentary/Photojournalism, shortlisted | UK 2011 PX3, Young Photojournalist of the Year, silver medal | France 2011 LOOK3 Fes.val, scholarship winner | USA 2011 New York Photo Fes.val Awards, Honorable men.on | USA 2011 Anthropographia, selected photographer | Canada 2011 Review Santa Fe par.cipant | USA 2011 CENTER Project Launch Award, honorable men.on | USA 2011 Nikon Photo Contest Interna.onal, 2nd Prize | USA 2011 Reinassance Prize, finalist | UK 2010 Ian Parry Scholarship winner | UK 2010 Terry O´Neill Award winner | UK 2010 Lucie Awards, Young Editorial Photographer of the Year | USA 2010 Lucie Awards Discovery of the Year, finalist | USA 2010 FotoVisura “Spotlight”, 3er Prize | USA 2010 Lens Culture Awards, honorable men.on | France 2010 CPOY, Award of Excellence in Feature | USA 2010 Albarracin Mee.ng of Photography, scholarship winner | SPAIN 2010 EMERGENT Interna.onal Fes.val of Photography and Visual Arts winner | Spain 2010 Onward, selected photographer | USA 2010 City of Gijon Interna.onal Prize of Photojournalism, finalist | Spain 2010 City of Gijon Mee.ng of Photo and Journalism, scholarship recipient | Spain 2010 FOTO8 SummerShow, finalist | UK SEBASTIAN LISTE EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS 2011 Visa pour L´Image | Perpignan, France (Upcoming) Duke University Gallery, Center for Documentary Studies | Duke, USA (Upcoming) Noorderlicht Photo Fes.val | Groningen, Netherlands (Upcoming) Angkor Photo Fes.val | Angkor, Cambodia (Upcoming) Spéos Gallery | Paris, France (Upcoming) New York Photo Fes.val | New York, USA Slideluck Potshow | London, UK VII Dumbo | New York, USA Ring Cube | Tokio, Japan Photographic Centre Peri | Turku, Finland Espace Dupon | Paris, France New Atlan.c Gallery | New York, USA Mall Galleries | London, UK Maison des Arts du Grütli, FIFDH | Geneva, Switzerland Gallery 291 | San Francisco, USA 2010 Project Basho | Philadelphia, USA Lucy Bell Gallery | St Leonards on Sea, UK New York Photo Fes.val “Human Kind” | New York, USA Hotshoe Gallery | London,UK Splashlight Studio Soho | New York, USA GeUy Gallery | London, UK Host Gallery, | London, UK Periscopio Fes.val | Vitoria, Spain SebasEan Liste Spain +34 620848729 Brazil +55 (71) 9302‐2381 [email protected] www.sebas.anliste.com