Honorable Mention TOKYO-2016 Editorial / Photo Essay

The last miners of Laciana valley

  • Photographer
    Alberto Pérez del Río

Last Laciana Valley miners refuse to disappear. The sector has spent years facing severe crisis, but the lack of control on government subsidies and European policies have led to the closure of almost all coal mining. What has so far been the only livelihood of the inhabitants of the coalfields, as Laciana Valley, it is over.