MÓN

17/08/2026

En lo alto de Monteagudo, en la huerta de Murcia, hay catorce metros de Cristo sobre una fortaleza árabe del siglo XI. Es el segundo. El primero se inauguró en 1926, lo dinamitaron en 1936, ya en guerra, y lo volvieron a levantar en 1951. La cabeza del primero sigue entre las ruinas, boca abajo. Se le ve un ojo.

Un abogado llevó el caso dos veces al Tribunal Supremo. La pregunta de fondo es si un Cristo plantado sobre un monumento protegido forma parte de ese patrimonio o le estorba.

Debajo, un pueblo que lo defiende, lo discute o lo ignora. María Dolores, que guarda las fotografías del primero. Francisco Garrigó, que nació en 1936. El párroco, que lo lee a su manera. Abdul, que llegó con la peseta y nombra las plantas en dos lenguas. Y Rayan y Wassim, que suben por donde se acaba la valla.

Reportaje publicado en CTXT.es. Enlace en la bio.

Este otoño el primer Cristo cumple cien años y su demolición, noventa. No hay nada anunciado.

Catorze metres de Crist sobre una fortalesa àrab del segle XI, a l’horta de Múrcia. Aixecat el 1926, dinamitat el 1936 i tornat a aixecar el 1951. El cap del primer continua entre les runes, de cara al terra. A sota, un poble que el defensa, el discuteix o l’ignora. Reportatge publicat a CTXT.es, en castellà. Enllaç a la bio.

Fourteen metres of Christ on an eleventh-century Arab fortress in Murcia. Raised in 1926, dynamited in 1936, raised again in 1951. The head of the first one is still up there, face down. Below, a village that defends it, argues about it or ignores it. Our report is out in CTXT.es, in Spanish. Link in bio.

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07/08/2026

Lake Fucino was Italy’s third-largest lake until 1878, when Prince Alessandro Torlonia drained it and the government handed him the land that appeared underneath. The former lakebed is now a plain of 16,500 hectares that needs up to 22 million cubic metres of water a year.

Lorenzo Mariani’s great-grandfather Giovanni worked as a mechanic at the Torlonia sugar refinery. Called in on his day off to deal with a machine, his leg was caught beneath it and he died the following day at thirty-six. Like the lake, he survived in scattered fragments, a handful of photographs and stories passed down. Lorenzo rebuilds both histories as performative actions staged in the dry basin, working with his aunt, the playwright and actress Stefania Evandro.

The Vanished Lake, by llorenzomariani, mentored by MonicaAlcazar-Duarte. The last of four reportages from the Visual Storytelling & Environmental Memory programme, run by MÓN with Journalismfund Europe. Design by Jordi Jon.

The full piece is at món.org/vsem/the-vanished-lake.html

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04/08/2026

Black Earth is a film book from Europe’s coal country, an alternate history of a people whose land is taken from beneath their feet and whose past is dug back out of the earth. Jozefien Van der Aelst shot it in the stark black and white of the seams, from Belgium across the continent, in places where the mines have closed but their traces remain.

It is written as a screenplay. Vera’s voice over a desolate quarry, a dog moving between scattered debris, rain hammering against the lens. All of it told through the drifting, all-seeing eye of the earth itself.

The book imagines an alternate present, one in which extraction is re-activated, driven by escalating geopolitical tensions and the looming presence of conflict, and in which new forms of resistance begin to emerge.

Black Earth, by Jozefien Van der Aelst, mentored by Rocco Rorandelli of TerraProject collective. The third of four reportages from the Visual Storytelling & Environmental Memory programme, run by MÓN with Journalismfund Europe. Design by Jordi Jon.

The full piece is at món.org/vsem/black-earth.html

31/07/2026

In the first six months of 2026, the Bundeswehr wrote to 153,200 men born in 2008, the year that cohort turns eighteen. Ninety-six per cent answered, as the law requires. More than 530 are firmly scheduled to serve. The cohort itself numbers just under 700,000, and service remains voluntary.

Ella Seeger followed that generation across North Rhine-Westphalia for a year: the first nationwide school strike against compulsory military service in Cologne, Bundeswehr youth events where teenagers wriggle through the mud under a barbed-wire fence, a paintball field near Mönchengladbach, and an eighteenth birthday where the dress code was Ibiza style and wearing black was forbidden.

The people in the pictures are deciding in real time. Binita believes a country must be able to defend itself in an emergency, but not that her age group, of all people, should bear the brunt of it. Tom has already drafted his letter of conscientious objection. Palma, born in 2008, will never receive the questionnaire: he does not hold German citizenship. Moritz filled his in honestly, and has given serving some thought, as the pay isn’t bad.

Jahrgang 2008, by Ella Seeger, mentored by Arne Piepke of DOCKS_Collective. The second of four reportages from the Visual Storytelling & Environmental Memory programme, run by MÓN with Journalismfund Europe. Design by Jordi Jon.

The full piece, with more photographs, is at món.org/vsem/jahrgang-2008.html

Link in bio!

28/07/2026

Basilicata has springs, reservoirs and dams enough to supply five million people. It has 530,004 residents, and in September 2025 its water deficit passed 35%, causing water disruptions in more than forty municipalities.

Michele Cardano went looking for an older relationship with that water. It sat at the centre of religious life for the ancient Lucanians and Greeks who lived here. The sanctuary of Rossano di Vaglio was laid out in the 4th century BCE around channels fed by a natural spring, and its goddesses governed fertility, the passage from one stage of life to the next, and the ground where the living met the dead. What survives of those places now sits in museum drawers, photographed here on blue cloth.

The present runs alongside it. Lake Camastra nearly dried up in 2024. The Rendina dam was emptied in 2005 because of structural problems and never went back into service. Farmers have halved their harvests two years running. High school students have protested over water disruptions and the diversion of water from the Basento. And Basilicata has Italy’s sharpest demographic decline, losing nine inhabitants per thousand over 2024–2026.

Water Archaeology, by Michele Cardano, mentored by Pietro Paolini of TerraProject collective. First of four reportages from the Visual Storytelling & Environmental Memory programme, run by MÓN with Journalismfund Europe. Design by Jordi Jon.

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