Entry Title: " Black Ice, Moscow. (Passengers)"
Name: Salvi Danés Vernedas, Spain
Category: Professional, Culture


Entry Description: A thin and an invisible ice layer, which makes the free movement difficult and damages our self-confidence to choose a direction. An invisible barrier which has a fearful influence on us when moving from one place to another. Leaning in a kind of imaginary wall which makes our path easier and which makes decisions for us. The city is an alien nucleus, full of companions, but empty of partners. Transported by an intangible flow, addressed to observe as extras in a plot with an agreed end. Moscow is the Soviet paradigm, an enormous city. It has been unknown for other comparable world cities as regards area and population, but neither with the same social system nor with the same regime, since a few years ago. It looks like there is a dislocation in its inhabitants due to the impact of a complex reality. A difficult position for people, who are obliged to follow trails and who are so little taken into account when building a critic and constructive voice

Salvi Danés was born in Barcelona (Spain) on the 14th January 1985. He went into the world of photography studying a vocational training in the field of image. Then he complemented his studies in “Institut d’estudis fotogràfics de Catalunya” (Photographic Institute of Catalonia). He has published in different Spanish publications. Nowadays, he gives workshops of photography in a school in Barcelona. He complements that job with his own photographs of society. Among some of the prizes he has won it is necessary to emphasize the WSPA prize in the University shoot out category last year where he was representing Spain and 2nd Price ”Sony World Photography Awards 2009″ ( Professional Category: Photojournalism & Documentary: Sport)