In 2011, three years after the global financial crisis, Southern European economies have experienced a tepid recovery and are drowning under a spiralling debt load, leaving less resilient countries with unsustainable interest rate burdens – the European sovereign debt crisis is in full swing.

Andalusia, in Southern Spain had seen a decade long boom in Real Estate and is now reeling, as indebted promoters go out of business, leaving half finished projects scattered around the region. The local economy takes a plunge and youth unemployment reaches 40%. 

As Spain’s traditional family support system kicks in, many young adults move back in with their parents and towns empty up. Compounded by the scorching heat, the mood is lethargic and resolutely resigned.

Through wanderings across the region, from town to town, empty shopping malls, unsanitary squats and run down suburbs, documenting the life of the most affected people, Se Vende is a photographic study of the human toll of the European Sovereign debt crisis.