Javi Julio

Photographer
  
The boat
Location: San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Biography: San Sebastian, Basque Country (1978) is a photojournalist and filmmaker. He has worked as a freelance photo and video journalist collaborating with different international media and agencies, focusing his objective on social struggles, respect... MORE
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The boat
Copyright Javi Julio 2024
Updated Sep 2023
The Stella Maris Berria is a tuna fishing vessel destined to be scrapped. However, Iñigo Mijangos and Iñigo Gutiérrez, members of a tiny NGO called Salvamento Marítimo Humanitario, have an unusual idea: to transform the fishing boat into a rescue ship to save refugees drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.

To do this, they will buy this old boat and christen it with the name of a famous Basque sailor, known for helping other fishermen on stormy days and where he lost his life 150 years ago while carrying out a rescue.

What at first were several months of works, became two years of waiting until their first mission, due to the impediments that the Government of Spain put to them, denying their departure to the sea on repeated occasions.

Thus begins the journey Aita Mari.
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