Urban Quilombo 
Sebastian Liste / Reportage by Getty Images / City of Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award 2012

In 2003, dozens of families occupied the Galpao da Araujo Barreto, an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Before moving there, the families had lived in the dangerous streets of the city, but, tired of living with so much violence and despair, they came together and took over the deserted factory which was in ruins, making it their own home. Here, they created a microcosm where problems of drugs, prostitution and violence could be tackled with the support of the community.

Sebastian Liste 

Sebastian Liste was born in 1985 in Alicante, Spain. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Sociology at the UNED, and a Masters in the Arts in Photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a photographer and a sociologist working in many aspects of the contemporany life in Latin America and the Mediterranean Sea area, regions where he grew up and knows well. He is currently living between Brazil and Spain. 

Sebastian’s extensive documentary work has focused on the lives of diverse communities around the world. By 2009, when Sebastian finished his undergaduate studies, he had visited over 20 countries, including Laos, Ethiopia, Mexico, Mali, Cuba, Nepal, among others, where he worked on visual projects based on his deep knowledge of social issues. 

Sebastian Liste is represented by Reportage by Getty Images.

Urban Quilombo - Sebastián Liste 
From september 1st to september 21st 
Chapelle du Tiers-Ordre 
Place de la Révolution française 
66000 Perpignan - France