Jordi Ruiz Cirera
Syndication in Germany
laif Agency
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Jordi Ruiz Cirera (b. 1984) is an award winning documentary photographer from Barcelona. Currently based in Mexico he combines personal long-term projects with editorial, NGO and corporate assignments for a broad range of international clients.
In recent years his work has been internationally exhibited and awarded, including recipent of the Magnum Emergency Fund Grant, the Deutsche Bank Award for Photography, the AOP Student Photographer of the Year, the POYi, the Lucie Awards, or the Taylor-Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2014 he published his first monograph, Los Menonos, with independent publishing house Editions du LIC.
He holds a degree in Design, and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication.
2016 - Magnum Emergency Fund, 2016 - Magenta Flash Forward, 2015 - Magnum "30 under Thirty", 2015 - BIPA Photography Awards, 2014 - Winner Premio Revela, 2013 - Nominated the ICP Infinity Awards, 2012 - The Taylor-Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, 2012 - The AOP Student Award, 2012 - POYi, 2012 - Lucie Awards
- Arts
- Editorial
- Environment
- Events
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Video capture
Menonos
Jordi Ruiz Cirera
The project Menonos depicts de life and the inner struggles lived in the Mennonite communities in Eastern Bolivia. Mennonites are Christian Anabaptis who arrived during the fifties from Canada, Mexico or Belize, hoping here they'd be able to preserve their lifestyle. Nowadays they live on the same way their ancestors did; with no cars, telephones, electricity or modern utilities. However, the pressure of the surrounding society is creating difficulties for them to survive.
Menonos portraits
Jordi Ruiz Cirera
Mennonites ban photography, some consider it could involve the sin of pride. Challanged by this fact I took this series of portraits intending to showcase the relations and the family roles within the Mennonite community, as well as their deep isolation from contemporary society.