TIFA 2021 People / Culture

The Faith to Bullfight

  • Prize
    Silver in People/Culture
  • Photographer
    Jordi Cohen
  • Photo Date
    2020-2021

Faith in bullfighting is a personal photographic project that collects intimate moments of promising young men in the art of bullfighting (they are called "novilleros", because they fight steers - bulls of less weight and age). They are not famous or well-known bullfighters. They are young people who try to find an opportunity in this world, most of them with a deep faith that one day the opportunity to succeed will come.

Jordi Cohen is a free-lance documentary photographer based in Barcelona. His work has been published in the New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, National Geographic, Mirror, Sunday Telegraph, CNN Blog, Leica Magazine, La Vanguardia, El Periódico, Photo France, XL Semanal and Piel de Foto among others.Has exhibited in Europe and America, to highlight San Diego Art Institute, CEH “Manege” St. Petersburg, Royal Geographical Society of London, Gallería Hector Garcia of Mexico City, International Festival of Social Photography in Sarcelles (France) and Couvent des Minimes of Perpignan.