Mexican Garcia Gets Special mention Award in Photography
The Mexican photographer Daniel Aguilar won a Special mention in the eleventh edition of the International Photography Award for his humanitarian Luis snapshots "tied", reported today the organization Doctors of the World.
In a communique, the Spanish NGO said that the winner of the contest this year was the Italian Giovanni Marrozzini for his photograph "The caress" on children affected by blindness in Ethiopia.
The complete list of winners of the photographer in Bangladesh, Abir Abdullah, for the series "Survivors of acid attacks in Bangladesh" and the Spanish photographer Katy Gomez, winner of special prize "Immigration and Human Rights in Europe" for their snapshots "Misery in wealth. "
Snapshots of Daniel Aguilar, with the title "tied", portray an unknown aspect of popular mobilization in the city of Oaxaca, in 2006, and to show a hooded person tied to a pole of power.
The mobilization that lasted six months was starring unionized teachers and members of the Popular Assembly of Peoples of Oaxaca against law enforcement officials of the state government of Oaxaca to demand the resignation of Governor Ulises Ruiz.
Daniel Garcia explained that in this conflict "citizens, beset by crime, opted to take the law into their own hands."
"Every night, residents watched their neighborhoods to prevent thefts and assaults that they caught someone stealing it stopped and it tied to a pole light. This was punished by putting it into evidence, "explained Daniel Aguilar on the background of the image.
Daniel Aguilar began his career in 1989 working for newspapers such as El Heraldo, Excelsior and El Universal, joined Reuters in 1997, where he works to date.
He has worked in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina, Jamaica, Bolivia, Costa Rica and the United States.
Among its international coverage highlights events like the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, the coup in Venezuela in 2002 or the political crisis and revolt in Haiti in 2004.
In 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 he received the National Prize for Journalism in Mexico in 2000 and 2004, the prize of journalism Pagés Llergo; Honorable Mention Award at the International King of Spain 2004.
He also received the Honorable Mention in the World Press Photo 2005; Third Place in the Photo News International, The Best Photojournalism 2005; Honorable Mention on the China International Press Photo 2005 and in 2007 the Third Place in the World Press Photo.
In this edition have been submitted 11 photographs 542 representatives of 205 authors from 36 countries.
The first award obtained by the Italian Giovanni Marrozzini is a fellowship of working eight thousand euros (11 billion U.S. dollars) earmarked for completion of a photographic project in one area of work of Doctors of the World.
The jury of this edition was composed of photographers and Juan Manuel Castro Prieto Clemente Bernad; Marisa Florez, head of the photography editor of the newspaper El Pais, and Carlos Bascones, head of production for the Agency Cover.
Ignacio Cabrero, head of the House of Culture Encendida Madrid; Begoña Rivas, a photographer for the newspaper El Mundo; Artundo Carlos, president of Doctors of the World Andalusia, Carmen Vizcaino, the Andalusian Center of Photography, and Yannis Kontos winner of the last edition.
The prize is convened every year in memory of Luis Valtueña, Flors Sirera, Manuel Madrazo and Mercedes Navarro, aid workers of Doctors of the World killed in Rwanda in 1997 and Bosnia in 1995 while working on projects for humanitarian action.
The winning images along with the rest of snapshots joined the 29 selected photographs that make up the sample is exposed between 14 and Jan. 31, 2007 in Seville in Las Naves Barranco.
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