Intensive Caring By The Sea

• Photographer
  Alfons Cabrera
• Technical Info
  Sony A7III, 28-70 3.5-5.6. & 55 1.8
• Photo Date
  22nd April 2020
• Website
  http://www.alfonscabrera.cat

The last line and core in the struggle against covid are the Intensive Care Units. I visited the one in Hospital del Mar (Hospital of the Sea, in Barcelona) last April, when the pandemic was hitting hardest in Catalonia. Since the crisis had begun until April 22nd, about 150 patients with the new coronavirus had stayed in this unit, with an average stay of 15 to 20 days. To deal with the situation, doctors and nurses were taking 12-hour shifts, four or five days a week. Those days, covid-19 patients were 80% of all critical patients in the ICU.

• Biography
  Born in Barcelona in 1982, after graduating in Medicine, I got my life straightened out: I studied Photography at IDEP Barcelona and Communication of Armed Conflicts at Complutense Univ. of Madrid. Since 2017, I have reported in Catalonia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Morocco, Spain, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Dominican Rep, Haiti, Andorra and Monaco. I have published articles and photo essays on La Vanguardia, ABC, Vilaweb, Ara, ABC, Descifrando la Guerra, Cultura Inquieta and Brecha, and my pictures have been on Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, 20 Minutes, Dagbladet and Zeit, among many others.
• Awards
  - Winner of Prize Robert Capa. Ajuntament d'Aitona (Lleida, Catalunya), November 2024. - Bronze Winner (Tokyo International Photo Awards), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, EUA), December 2022. - Bronze Winner for Room 304 (Paris Photo Prix), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, EUA), August 2022. - Photographer of the Week, All About Photo, November 2021. - Finalist for Orange (ANI/Pixtrakk Award), Visa pour l'Image, September 2021. - HM for Intensive Caring by the Sea (Tokyo International Photo Awards), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), February 2021. - Photographer of the Week, All About Photo, February 2021. - HM for Low Emission Zone (International Photo Awards), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), October 2020. - HM for Peace Lines (International Photo Awards), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), October 2020. - HM for F LIZ 2 20 (Paris Photo Prix), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), September 2020. - Finalist (44th Torretes Trophy), Foto-Film Calella (Calella, Catalonia), March 2020. - Silver for The Battle of Urquinaona (Tokyo Photo Awards), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), September 2019. - Honorable Mention for Playground (International Photo Awards), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), September 2019. - Honorable Mention for BODYBUILDERS (International Photo Awards), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), October 2018. - 2x finalist (IX Fotofénix International Photography Competition), Fénix Troyana (Xelva, Spain), March 2018. - Finalist (42nd Torretes Trophy), Foto-Film Calella (Calella, Catalonia), March 2018. - Honorable Mention for Melancholy and the infinite sadness (International Photo Awards), Lucie Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), October 2017. - Finalist (Stop Racism Photo Contest), Ediciones de Letras (Granada, Spain), March 2017. - Finalist (VIII Fotofénix International Photography Competition), Fénix Troyana (Xelva, Spain), February 2017.