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Approximately half a million people in the world suffer from Epidermolysis Bullosa (E.B.) which is a group of inherited connective tissue disorders. The common symptom is extremely fragile skin that blisters and tears from minor friction or trauma.
Currently there is no treatment or cure for E.B; it is a chronic disease which is always painful, debilitating and in some cases lethal before the age of 30. This makes living with E.B. a big challenge for the patients as well as for the family and doctors who take care of them.

Snezana Lecic, 26 years old, suffers Dystrophic E.B. Ljubinje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Pablo Cobos Terán, Málaga, 1985. Graduated as Technician in Laboratory of Image and Senior Technician in Image, he complements his photographic education with private courses in the areas of reportage photography, high quality digital photography and a photojournalism course in the Balkans among others.

He currently lives in Madrid and has been working as a freelance photographer for over 10 years. His work has been published in International and Spanish media such as The Wall Street Journal, El Mundo, El País, La Razón, Gara as well as in various specialized journals, mainly related to bullfighting. He specialized in this theme during the years prior to devoting himself to photojournalism and documental photography.

Since dedicating exclusively to photojournalism, Pablo Cobos immersed in a personal project for two years in Bosnia - Herzegovina and Serbia to document the process of identifying victims of the Srebrenica genocide. He has also traveled to Morocco to learn the stories and portray the lives of immigrants trying to cross the border fence at Melilla. Recently, he traveled to Nepal to photograph the aftermath of the earthquake of April 25th, 2015.