ÉXODO is a photobook by Rita Álvarez Tudela documenting the 5,000 Spanish nurses working today in the United Kingdom, who are part of the biggest Spanish migration of the 21st century.
They are a group of young professionals that are well qualified, with a university degree and a decent knowledge of English and are part of the most well-prepared generation of Spanish professionals in history.
Still, they are forced to go abroad.
The photos are taken inside hospitals, at the nurses’ workplaces, the surroundings of their daily work inside hospitals and in one of the bedrooms. All of them are located in London, but Spanish nurses are spread all over the country.
About Rita
Born in Oviedo (Asturias, Spain) in 1986, Rita Alvarez Tudela is a photojournalist based in the United Kingdom. She works as a freelance correspondent for the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia and other publications. She graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism MA at Westminster University in London in 2015. Previously she was based in Beijing for six years, where she covered daily and breaking news stories in China and the Asia-Pacific region. Her main areas of interest are immigration, social issues and social inequality.
