2016 / People / Portrait_P

The portrait of a warrior

  • Photographer
    Pablo Garrigos

Monique, a congolese women who suffer from malaria over her entire lifetime, poses to illustrate the fight against Malaria illness carried out by Spanish NGO Caritas since 2004 in Congo. Monique received a mosquito net from this NGO and since then she never suffers it again. August 2015 3rd, 2015

I studied journalism at the University of Valencia and I did my photography degree at the Superior Art and Design School of the same city. Then, I move to Belgium and I base myself as freelancer photojournalist in Brussels. From there I have been developing personal projects and assignments in other domains like development cooperation, edition or TV productions in countries like Congo, Benin or Poland. Nowadays, I working on two projects, one about abortion in the last countries of Europe where is forbidden and the genital mutilations female in Belgium.