Chinese New Year, Madrid.

In the Madrid neighborhood of Usera, every year Chinese New Year is celebrated with a multitude of activities for all audiences. Not only does the Chinese community in the capital participate (majority in this neighborhood) but all the different cultures that live in Usera, from the Spanish to the Ecuadorian. An example of coexistence and multiculturalism.

For two years, 2016 and 2017, I was working for the Madrid city council covering this Chinese holiday in the capital and these are some of the images I got.

In 2017, Year of the Rooster, photojournalist Juan Carlos Toro made an artistic intervention through the streets of the Usera neighborhood with 5 large-scale photographs pasted in different buildings. They are portraits of neighborhood residents bearing the symbolic rooster and this is how the artistic intervention "Portraits of Usera" did it.