Semana Santa

This year I tried to focus on the role of women in the easter processions taking place throughout the holy week in almost all villages and cities in the provinces in southern Spain. I had an interesting view inside the preparations, the process, the most important details and learned a lot about the self-image of these women. In many cases, they fill out spaces abandoned by men, revitalising their own traditions, converging in a new identity. In advance some pictures from the procession of the Holy Christ oft he Gypsies in Granada and from Sabinillas, a little seabord village south of Málaga…