Checking in to Europe’s largest illegal drugs supermarket

With the help of a priest, we search for a new class of east European addicts who steal for heroin in Madrid’s Cañada Real by Michael Bird, Vlad Odobescu and Feliciano Tisera. Illustrations by Sorina Vazelina. Published in The Black Sea Madrid’s underground station of Embajadores is a crowded junction with a fountain gushing from […]

“Many girls thought it would be a game where they make love to one man and then another”

We shadow Romanian outreach worker Carmen Farauanu as she helps the international streetwalkers of Naples Text by Michael Bird, Vlad Odobescu and Cecilia Ferrara. Illustration by Sorina Vazelina Published here on The Black Sea   Near the Garibaldi station in Naples, on the Via Galileo Ferraris, is a church with a cross illuminated in bright […]