PHotoEspaña, through an international jury panel formed by Ann Christin Bertrand, curator of photography of C/O Berlín; Raphaëlle Stopin, artistic director of the Hyères Festival (France), and Greg Hobson, director of the National Media Museum in Bradford, has given the PHE 2014 Discovery Award to Mexico City-based Argentinean photographer Mariela Sancari, for her work entitled Moisés. A work in process in which Sancari metaphorically searches for her father—who died under tragic circumstances when the artist was 14 years old—by relying on portraits of men whose complexion and age would be similar to her father's if he were to be alive today. "According to the discipline of thanatology, not seeing the dead body of loved ones prevents us from accepting their death. To contemplate the lifeless body of the deceased person helps us to overcome one of the most complex stages of mourning: denial. My twin sister and I were not able to see our father's corpse. I never quite understood if it was because he committed suicide, because of Jewish religious rules, or both. Not having been able to see his corpse has made us doubt his passing in multiple ways. The feeling that everything was a nightmare and the fantasy, which my sister and I share, of bumping into him one day walking on the street or seating in a coffee shop has stayed with us all these years," said Sancari. In 2013, a grant from the Mexican Government (FONCA-CONACYT) allowed Sancari to return to the neighborhood where she was born in Buenos Aires and to set in motion a project marked by the absence of the paternal figure. The point of departure of the project was a "missing person" printed ad that included her father's picture and in which the artist asked for the participation of men between the ages of 68 and 72 whose physical appearance resembled that of her father's. She published it in the newspaper and distributed it throughout the city. She installed her photography studio in the square where she used to play as a child, as she began to develop the series that metaphorically searched for her father Moisés Sancari.