Biography
Séverine Sajous is an documentary photographer and videomaker. She understands photography as a way to be engaged with our world, in such a way that it raises awareness and critical thinking. Autodidact she takes a course of photojournalism and carries out her first project, an approach to informal recycling in the streets of Barcelona. At this occasion she works on the representation of body emotions amongst the workforce in the scrap yard in the form of a calendar. Her work has been preselected by the Association Nationale des Iconographes during the review of the portofolios for the partial exhibition of the festival Visa Pour l´Image 2015. It was published in Vice magazine. The calendar "De Hierro" 2017 was also finalist of the DOCfield Dummy Award Fundació Banc Sabadell.Socially involved,in October 2015 and on her own initiative she starts « Jungleye », a new project of participatory photography in the refugee camps in Europe and Lebanon. Her work has been published in El país, Le Monde, The Guardian, Fisheye, Aljazeera amongst others. In September 2016 she receives a grant from the European Commission to achieve a new project "Transit Tales" with refugees and asylum seekers in four European capitals.
Beside she is working on her new photography and video proyect "Password: Fajara" an essay with infrared camara about life conditions in the "Jungles" of Calais (France) .
