Porteadoras Melilla


  • Photographer
    Anna Vílchez Córdoba
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Los Coleccionistas de Momentos
  • Date of Photograph
    2014

Maria, a Moroccan woman works like porteadora transporting big and heavy bundles of clothes and shoes in the border of " Barrio Chino", between the autonomous city of Melilla (Spain) and Nador (Morocco). It works from Monday until Thursday, when they open the border. For each bundle she gets approximately 5€ ($6'81), some mornings only she can transport only a bundle. Maria takes care about his three daughters and his husband.

Story

Maria, a Moroccan woman works like porteadora transporting big and heavy bundles of clothes and shoes in the border of " Barrio Chino", between the autonomous city of Melilla (Spain) and Nador (Morocco). It works from Monday until Thursday, when they open the border. For each bundle she gets approximately 5€ ($6'81), some mornings only she can transport only a bundle. Maria takes care about his three daughters and his husband.

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