Posts Tagged ‘El Ejido’

At the Door to Europe There’s Slavery

A video by the Guardian’s Felicity Lawrence, in whose book Not On The Label I first read about El Ejido, on migrant farm workers in southern Spain. Quite good, though I have some concerns about her poking around the interiors of people’s homes without their permission (or that’s how the edit makes it appear.) She [...]


Video: Invernaderos

“An important work of architecture will create polemics.” // Richard Meier Out of all the work I did in El Ejido I have been struggling to find a single image (or even a series of images) able to capture the scale of the place. Of course there are levels of scale at play: from the [...]


Francisco: “No es rentable.”

Francisco: "No es rentable."

This is posted as a farm visit, but really it’s a fragment of a conversation had in the road between greenhouses one evening in El Ejido. Thomas and I had set out with the goal of reaching the foothills of the mountains behind the city, which meant a good couple hours walk through the plastic. [...]


Emmanuel & John

Emmanuel & John

My first moments in El Ejido have been cruel. Walking one of the roads through the greenhouses that surround the city I find a small bird fluttering in the gutter. It’s wing is broken. I pass it by, trying to put out of mind what I know I should do. After a few steps though [...]


El Ejido

El Ejido

Tomorrow I’m headed south again to meet up with my friend, and fellow photographer Thomas to spend a week or so working in Almeria. We’ll be focused on El Ejido, a small city surrounded by 30,000 hectares of intensive greenhouse production, as you can see above courtesy of Google. Everything white is a greenhouse growing [...]