Marina Calahorra
Barcelona, España
Spanish photojournalist and producer working as a freelance, currently based in Barcelona.
As a photographer i've been traveling around world covering human rights and environmental issues and I've collaborated with Getty Images and published in many national and international medias such as CNN, El Pais, El Mundo, Die Zeit, Tempo, Discovery Channel Magazine, among others.
As a producer I've been working as a field producer/reserach for CNN, Al Jazeera, CCTV, CGTN ...
I've also coordinated two projects in Indonesia. One about all the medioambiental crisis that Borneo island is suffering and the other about an indigenous tribe called Mentawai, who are being threatened by an islamic indonesian community.
- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Environment
- Landscape
- Medical
- Military embed
- Portrait
- RISC training
- Wildlife
MENTAWAI, PROGRESS OR REGRESS?
Marina Calahorra
The Mentawai are an indigenous tribe based in an island west from Indonesia. For years they served themselves of their own habits and under their own ideology until approximately 20 years ago when Christian missionaries arrived to their land suggesting to them to convert into Christianism. They did not try to change Mentwai´s habits unlike a muslem integrist group which has been present in the area for the past year.
A mosque´s construction in the middle of the jungle is only the first step inside their construction plan which aims to develop the island.
Covering their women, dresings up their children, the construction of a school following muslim believes, introducing electricity, offering them motorbikes or mobile phones are only some of their propositions.
