‘The hands belong to Moussa’s friends’: Quim Fàbregas’s best phone picture

The Spanish photographer on teaching portraiture to children - and the muse he found among them

The Senegalese village of Sare Soukande is home to fewer than 500 people. Ten-year-old Moussa, pictured here, is one of them. Attentive, passionate and a great football player, Moussa is one of the boys enrolled in an educational project Quim Fabregas works on beside his professional photography. That day in the village, Moussa was the muse.

Photography is one of the activities we teach - art is very important for children. In this case, we did a portrait exercise, then analysed the photos we took together," says Fabregas, who had been thinking about this shot for a long time. The hands belong to Moussa's friends. I wanted to send the message that human suffering is not only of one, but of those around us, too."