2016 / People / Culture (Non-Pro)

The eight lives of a bull runner

  • Photographer
    Jordi Cohen
  • Agency / Studio
    Freelance

The bull runner of Pamplona Juan Pedro Lecuona is the owner of one of the best pairs of legs in the history of the bulls at Pamplona. With traditionally rolled up his pants and fanfold paper, their careers have become one of the traditional prints of Pamplona career. Behind the runner, his life at the limit in the morning and work in the evenings as “mulillero” at the Bullfight Arena, a wife and four children, a few friends and beliefs. Behind the man is a hero. This is the story of how the family pass, values and fears between the living room and vertigo face bull.

Jordi Cohen is a documentary photographer based in Barcelona. NGO Contributor AIDNOH (Haiti), Agua de Coco (Madagascar) and Cafebabel (Digital European magazine). Has exhibited his work in Europe and America, to highlight San Diego Art Institute, St. Petersburg, Royal Geographical Society of London, Gallería Hector Garcia of Mexico City, Couvent des Minimes of Perpignan, Complejo el Águila Exhibition Hall of Madrid. Has published in European and American media (Sunday Telegraph, CNN Blog, Leica Magazine, La Vanguardia, El Periódico, Photo France, XL Semanal, Piel de Foto, Chasseur d’Images...)