Demonstrators gathered last week at La Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona to celebrate La Diada, a regional holiday commemorating the day the city fell to the Spanish in the War of Spanish Succession. (Photo by Seth Halleran)

Alex is a cofounder and editor of The Seattle Globalist. He's a visual journalist whose work has been published by PBS, The Seattle Times, FRONTLINE/World and the Seattle Weekly.  Alex teaches journalism in the University of Washington's Department of Communication and recently directed the documentary film Barzan.