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Sept. 2013. Police break into Maria Isabel Rodriguez Romero's apartment to evict her family in Madrid. Sept. 2013.Andres Kudacki—AP by [Jen Tse](https://time.com/author/jen-tse/) ## Jen Tse Aug 26, 2015 8:00 AM UTC In Spain, few sights are more universally terrifying than that of police through an apartment door peephole. “They’ll come at dawn. They’ll cordon off the area two blocks around the house. And if the residents don’t open the door, they’ll break it down,” says photographer Andres Kudacki. While shooting for the Associated Press in Madrid in 2012, Kudacki embarked on what would become a three-year project about evictions, hoping to tell a deeper story of the widespread, enduring consequences of Spain’s financial crisis. His efforts will find an attentive audience as a featured exhibit at this year’s Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, at a time when Spain’s economic woes seem all but eclipsed by those of Greece. Kudacki’s photography puts individual faces to a crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands evicted from their homes since the 2008 housing market crash. Spain’s unemployment rate, at 22.5%, is the second-highest in Europe after Greece, and it’s simply impossible for many to make rent or mortgage payments. “Everybody knows someone who’s been evicted,” he claims. The tragedy continues to unfold every day, over and over again, says Kudacki who initially found his sources with the help of housing rights activism group Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH). He was soon covering up to four evictions a week. Those who lose their homes, he says, are usually forced to reoccupy evicted spaces, only to be evicted again later. To make matters worse, the victims often suffer astonishing heartlessness at the hands of police. “The officers kick people to the ground and even push fingers into their eyes,” says Kudacki. But the most brutal treatment, he discovered, is reserved for members of the press. “The police don’t want to be the face of the evictions, because they are just executing an order delivered by a judge. But they will execute it no matter what.” During one eviction, Kudacki was arrested and faced up to four years in prison before his lawyers managed to get his case dropped. Despite the risks he’s had to take, Kudacki’s work has sparked change for the better. One of his subjects, an 86-year-old widow named Carmen Ayuso, quickly became a symbol of the crisis after his portrait of her went viral on Twitter. “She had been living in \[her home\] for 50 years,” he says. “Her case sensitized everyone to the problem. A local football club donated all the profits from one of their games to help her.” Aside from the direct impact his work has had on Carmen’s life, the opportunity to exhibit at Visa pour l’Image is one of the most gratifying things to happen to him as a photojournalist, he says. “When the police are trying to arrest me or break my camera, they’re saying, ‘Your work is nothing.’ But Visa pour l’Image is a space with such a good reputation. It says that \[my\] work is important and that it matters to society.” [**_Andres Kudacki_**](http://www.andreskudacki.com/)_is a freelance photographer based in New York._ **_Mikko Takkunen_**_, who edited this photo essay, is an Associate Photo Editor at TIME. Follow him on Twitter_ [_@photojournalism_](http://www.twitter.com/photojournalism)_._ **_Jen Tse_** _is a photo editor and contributor to TIME LightBox. Follow her on Twitter_ [_@jentse_](https://twitter.com/jentse) _and_ [_Instagram_](https://instagram.com/thisisjentse/)_._  Police stand guard outside Asuncion Juanilla Frias' apartment during her eviction in Madrid. June 2015. Andres Kudacki—AP  Luisa Gracia Gonzalez, 44, cries as her family's eviction and the demolition of her house by a forced expropriation was postponed in Madrid. Aug. 2013. Andres Kudacki—AP  Police break into Maria Isabel Rodriguez Romero's apartment to evict her family in Madrid. Sept. 2013. Andres Kudacki—AP  Mercedes Pincay, 50, empties her apartment through the back door during her eviction in Madrid. Dec. 2014. Andres Kudacki—AP  Furniture is packed behind the main door to stop riot police from entering the apartment as Cecilia Paredes and her husband Wilson Ruilova prepare to leave with their baby Dilan during their eviction in Madrid. Jan. 2015. Andres Kudacki—AP  Riot Police remove housing rights activists as they try to stop Luisa Gracia Gonzalez and her family's eviction and the demolition of their house by a forced expropriation in Madrid. Feb. 2015. Andres Kudacki—AP  Riot Police remove housing rights activists who climbed on an excavator in an effort to stop Luisa Gracia Gonzalez and her family's eviction and the demolition of their house by a forced expropriation in Madrid. Feb. 2015. Andres Kudacki—AP  Soledad Carrasquilla Delgado, 53, center, gets help from her family and members of the Victims' Mortgage Platform, as she faints during a panic attack following the postponement of her family's eviction in Madrid. Oct. 2013. Andres Kudacki—AP  Benigno Ferrer, 59, gestures beside his daughter Maria Isabel Ferrer Rodriguez, 8, as they wake up outside the apartment from which they got evicted in Madrid. Oct. 2013. Andres Kudacki—AP  Carmen Martinez Ayuso, 85, cries during her eviction in Madrid. Nov. 2014. Andres Kudacki—AP  Friends and activists carry pictures and bags as they help Veronica Labradas to move out after the police evicted her family in Madrid. Oct. 2014. Andres Kudacki—AP  Diana Sofia Meliton, 2, watches a housing rights activist re-open her family's apartment after they were evicted, in Madrid. Feb. 2015. Andres Kudacki—AP  Police block the apartment's entrance as Amalio Barrul Gimenez's belongings lay on the street after his family got evicted in Madrid. June 2014. Andres Kudacki—AP  Efren Rodriguez Gonzalez, 68, covers his granddaughter Maria Isabel Ferrer Rodriguez, 8, as Victims' Mortgage Platform members gather around outside the apartment the day after her family got evicted in Madrid. Sept. 2013. 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