Jordi Borràs i Abelló


Jordi Borràs i Abelló is a Catalan illustrator and photojournalist.

Biography

Borràs has a degree in Illustration from Barcelona's Massana School of Design, where he also discovered an interest in photography. Since then, he combines both disciplines professionally and has specialized in social issues in the field of photojournalism. He is a member of the Group of Journalists Ramon Barnils.
He has worked as an independent graphic reporter for various Catalan media including Nació Digital, La Directa, or El Temps, where he has also published several research pieces. He currently collaborates with El Crític, El Món and the Basque magazine Argia. He has specialized in social photo chronicles with a special interest in the extreme right that is active in Catalonia. Internationally, he has published photographs in several newspapers and international agencies and also in magazines specialized in the extreme right Hope Not Hate and Expo, as well as in the rest of Spain.
Since he began reporting, Borràs started to receive threats from fascist groups in 2013, which the police investigated.
In the field of photography, the edition of his first book, Warcelona, una història de violència . On April 22, 2015, he presented Plus Ultra. A graphic chronicle of Spanishism in Catalonia. In September 2015 he published the book Desmuntant Societat Civil Catalana where he reveals the origins of and demonstrate the links of the group Societat Civil Catalana with the extreme right of Somatemps and other groups through various research reports.
In 2018 he presented Dies que duraran anys a book of photos from the Catalan Independence referendum of October 1, 2017. It was the second best-selling non-fiction book during the Sant Jordi Day book festival that same year.
In July 2018 he was attacked in the center of Barcelona by an off-duty police officer. The off-duty police officer claimed that Borràs started the fight with the police officer. Testimonials support Jordi Borràs explanation of facts.

Books

In 2016 he received Dignity Prize from :ca:Comissió de la Dignitat|The Dignity Commission Foundation.