How photographing Yemen during the uprising changed me

Taking an award-winning photo helped one Spanish photographer connect with a country rarely seen beyond the stereotypes.

“Yemen” – I typed the word into a Google search. It was 2011 and, following the “revolutions” in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, protests had now started in Yemen. I had just received an assignment to photograph them for The New York Times. But I didn’t know about the country, so I turned to the internet.