Manel Quiros - Faces of Edinburgh

May all those I mention here regard this book as theirs as well as mine. It could never have been achieved without their support, since no one is alone in this world and nothing can be accomplished without the help of others. I would like to give special thanks to Amberley Publishing for all their support, and for choosing me for this project.

Thank you to: Peter White Mclen, Paul Carson Clark, Helen Chadfield, Kerry Browning, Rodrigo Dos Santos, Lisa Jane Slaven, Camron Cube, Murray McRae, Laura ONeill, Laura Nagelschmidt, Irene Molina, Alwyne Sienkiewicz, Michael Clarke, Morvern Cunningham, Stuart Hepburn, Christopher Rutterford, Danual Dior, Kevin Baines, Marc Diamond, Ross Hepburn, Joel Perez, Georgios Ntavelas, Aung Zin Tun, James Crombie, David Jimenez, Alistair Steward, Elyse Black, Edgar Guerreiro, Molnar Marton, Peter Miller, Jonathan Rumford, Daiva Malina, Katie Rougvie, Muzzy Hamilton, Nicola Robertson, Louis Thomas, Graham Fennell, Michael Wdowiak, Natalie Candlish, Tartan Heather, David Lazaro, Zeena Mindikowski, Biff Paris, Victoria Sanchez, Frances Fowle, David Gordon, Alex Slater, Reyes Mayolin, Benjamin Frances, Shannon Ferry, Larissa Susin, Elea Karlsson, Fernando Diaz, Benjamin Suarez, Alberto Sanz, Susane Meaney, Estefania Garzon, Kaddeer Aslam, Melissa Knox.

Last and not least, I beg forgiveness of all those who have been with me over the course of this year and whose names I have failed to mention.

In deep gratitude,

Manel Quiros

First published 2017

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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Manel Quiros is a freelance photographer born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1984. He has been established in Edinburgh since 2010. He graduated in Photography, Image Processing and Communication at the University of Valencia, Spain, and Visual Communication, Media in New Technologies and Photojournalism in Edinburgh and Glasgow, United Kingdom. An active member of the CC NGO, he has collaborated with the Naya Nagar NGO, the Spanish Red Cross, the Burkinabe Red Cross, UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Over the years his passion for photography has taken him to various European countries as well as Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Cambodia.

In 2014 he was selected as one of the PHE14 Discoveries at the PHotoEspaa festival, Madrid, Spain. He was a finalist for the International Contemporary Art Award Combat Prize 2014 in Livorno, Italy. In 2015 he was awarded an honourable mention from IPOTY (International Photographer of the Year) in the category of Photojournalism/Story. He was also featured in the bookContemporaries: Thirty Photographers of Today , a welcome and innovative publication that discovers and gives credit to a new generation of distinguished photographers. He was awarded bronze and silver at the Tokyo International Foto Awards in 2016, as well as winning the Lens on Social Justice contest held by the Open Hands Initiative in collaboration with VII Photo Agency. In the same year, he was the Jurors Winner in the Documentary Photograph exhibition held by the SE Centre for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina, United States. He also won the international portrait photography award Shoot the Face.

PETER WHITE MCLEN

HOMELESS

Its just one of those days, you know? Some days you wake up and you are alright, the next day you are not. Ups and downs. I live in this cemetery. This bench is my bed. People are scared of coming to the cemetery. It is the best place to sleep, no one is going to come and annoy you, and dead people are not going to bother you, so I can have a good nights sleep. I am not scared. It is a safe place. Where are we anyway? Oh, right, now I know where we are.