When Alba Zari was four years old, she fled the Children of God cult with her mother and grandmother. Now, after many years, the artist is seeking answers about her family’s past in an attempt to understand the controversial sect that recruited them

When Alba Zari was four years old, she fled the Children of God cult with her mother and grandmother. Now, after many years, the artist is seeking answers about her family’s past in an attempt to understand the controversial sect that recruited them
Originally trained as a journalist, Barcelona-born Laia Abril expanded her storytelling methods after studying at New York’s ICP. She is best-known for the first chapter of her long-term project A History of Misogyny, On Abortion, which recently won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year Award and has been shortlisted for the 2019 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
The Madrid-based photography correspondent reports on the Spanish top five of 2017 – including Álvaro Laiz’s The Hunt