GetxoPhoto 2015 campaign

Costume designer: Tamara Pérez

"The Spanish viral campaign that has deceived 
the whole world" , i-D.

‘Illegal Dreamer’ is a low-almost-no budged campaign
directed by Manson for GetxoPhoto 2015  based on a 
series of selfies posted on Instagram by Abdou Diouf a 
fictional character who documents 
his journey from Senegal to Europe in search for
a better life.

After some media —like UK’s The Huffington Post, 
Mirror; Swedish Svenska Dagbladet; 
Italians Corriere della Sera,
La Stampa, Vanity Fair; Spaniards Cadena Ser, 
Cuatro, La Vanguardia; Portuguesse TVi 24; 
Mexicans El Universal and Excelsior; 
Peruvian El Popular among many others around the world— reported 
about Abdou’s trip as if it was real, the campaign went 
globally viral, giving tremendous attention to GetxoPhoto 2015 
and the issues presented in this Trips’ edition.

GETXOPHOTO is an international festival dedicated
to photography that takes place 
in Getxo (Basque Country) and supports the exploration 
of formats, stands and unconventional 
exhibition spaces to show the different images.
This is a thematic festival that every three years 
works together with a different curator who understands
the photography as a tool of knowledge, 
communication, and of course artistic enjoyment.
The curator for GetxoPhoto 2015 «TRIPS» edition is Christian Caujolle.

Director: Manson
Creative Director: Tomás Oliva
Director GetxoPhoto: Jokin Aspuru
Cast: Hagi Toure, Penda Kamte Diame, Madi Fatty Komma, Basirou Sisoko
Casting: Ana Menéndez
Aux. Production: Alejandro Silvestre
Production Company: Volga