Lys Arango

Biography

Lys Arango is a Spanish documentary photographer based in Marseille, France. She is a National Geographic Explorer and a member of Agence VU’. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally and has received several awards, including Pictures of the Year and the Prix Terre Solidaire.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Winter 2025

The Last Days and Afterlife of the San Nicolás Mine

Photography by Lys Arango ,  Essay by Paul Reyes

In 2010, the Spanish government came to an agreement with the European Union that formalized what was already a deep, generational shift in the country’s relationship to coal, a resource that had profoundly shaped the economy and culture of...

4 men sitting on a bench in uniform in a dark cave