BREAK IN is Mikel’s first work done in film. He studied journalism in the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) and after graduating he moved to Barcelona were he studied photography at IEFC. With his first documentary photographic project, “Rue 24, Phnom Penh” in which BREAK IN is based on, he got the New FNAC Photography Talent Prize (2006). In the same year he got a grant from Catalonia’s government, Clic, with which he made “Catalasians”, a project about Asian people’s immigration movements into Catalonia. In 2008 he won the Fotopres Grant of La Caixa Foundation, with Harry Gruyaert among the members of the jury. Thanks to this grant he was able to do “-40/96º”, a project about the alcoholic homeless people of Ulan Bator, in Mongolia. Part of this story was finalist of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2013 or published at LENS blog of NYT, among other prestigious media.