Luis Valtueña
International
Award
Humanitarian
Photography

The Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, founded in 1997 and organized every year by Médicos del Mundo Spain, is dedicated to the memory of Flors, Luis, Manuel, and Mercedes, four of the organization’s aid workers who were killed in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina while they provided humanitarian aid.

Winner and finalists
edition 2022

In the call for the 24th edition, 733 series, 6,531 photographs in total, were received from 94 countries on all five continents.

Winner edition 2022

María Clauss

Where oblivion may not dwell

Spain

Miguel Hernández, Huelva Provincial Prison, 2021. Projection of a photograph of the poet Miguel Hernández in one of the prison cells where he was imprisoned, after being captured on April 30, 1939, in Moura (Portugal) while trying to flee from Spain.

The lifeless bodies of more than a dozen people lying on the road and sidewalk of Yablunska Street in Bucha, April 2, 2022. Some of them were handcuffed, others had white armbands and most of them were apparently shot dead.

Finalist 2022

Santi Palacios

The Bucha massacre

Spain

{L} If we were to compare a man and an elephant, a man feels powerless in front of an elephant, for him HIV is that elephant that has covered his sun, it doesn’t let the sun come to him, it can trample him every second, he depends on him… When the first stage was over, I saw the elephant and began to examine its leg, then its tail, then its head, then the picture became complete, it started to shrink. I already understood what I was dealing with. I realized that the myths the TV, the Internet or that booklets, posters with scary images fed me with… I realized that in reality all that is a myth, there is no such scary picture that maybe used to be thirty years ago when there was no medicine. When that elephant started to get smaller and smaller, I could control it as I wanted.

Finalist 2022

Nazik Armenakyan

Red Black White

Armenia

Luis Miguel Arias, 27, a Venezuelan, rests exhausted with his 4-year-old daughter Melissa Arias during the second day of hiking across the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama. The jungle crossing can take 10 to 12 days. September 2022.

Finalist 2022

Federico Ríos

Migrants crossing the Darien Gap

Colombia

MEXICO CITY (MEXICO), 07/08/2021.- Sandra Monrroy, 36, 3 days after undergoing a bilateral mastectomy due to breast cancer. Her friend Gina Ramirez (l) and her mother Teresa Mandrujano (r) accompany her as she removes the bandage that was placed on her breast.

Special mention of the jury 2022

Sáshenka Gutiérrez

Screw You Cancer

Mexico

Jury
edition 2022

Walter Astrada

Freelance photojournalist

Walter Astrada

Walter Astrada began his career as a photographer in 1996 at the Argentine daily La Nación. He worked for the Associated Press and France Press agencies for several years. Now a freelancer, he is mainly dedicated to long-term projects, such as one on violence against women worldwide and a group project on people affected by multiple sclerosis across Europe.

Since May 1, 2015, he has been traveling aboard a Royal Enfield motorcycle with the idea of going around the world while documenting the countries he travels through.

He gives lectures and workshops and is a member of the World Press Photo team of instructors.

His awards include three World Press Photo, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, NPPA-BOP in the categories Photojournalist of the Year and Photo of the Year 2009, PGB International Photojournalism Award, 1st Prize Days Japan award, 1st Prize Sony World Photographic Awards, 2nd Prize Foto Press La Caixa, Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, 1st Prize Multimedia in the 68th POYi and a Nomination for the Emmy Award.

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Rodrigo Abd

Staff photographer for The Associated Press

Rodrigo Abd

Rodrigo Abd began his career as a photographer at the Argentine newspapers La Razón (1999-2000) and La Nación (2000-2003). He has been a staff photographer for the international news agency Associated Press since 2003, based first in Guatemala, then Peru, and now in Argentina.

His journalistic work includes coverage of various social and political issues in Latin America, such as the post-conflict development in Guatemala: street violence, gangs, and femicide; the coup d’état in Honduras in 2009, the earthquake in Haiti in 2010; the Bolivarian process in Venezuela; the search for relatives of the disappeared in the Peruvian highlands; the transition of the FARC to peace in Colombia; the gold rush, conflict and ecological disaster in the Peruvian jungle, among others.

He has also portrayed stories in the Middle East: he “embedded” with U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2010; he photographed the “Arab Spring” in Libya in 2011, and the following year, the civil war in Syria, the coverage that earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 along with four other colleagues from the AP agency.

He has won prestigious awards for his work, such as the Maria Moors Cabot (2016), World Press Photo (2006 and 2013), Gabriel García Márquez Foundation Award (2022), and Picture of the Year International. His photographs have been shown in different international exhibitions, such as Visa Pour l ́Image, in Perpignan, France (2011); the Cultural Center of Spain in Antigua Guatemala (2012) and the Photography Center of Montevideo, Uruguay (2016).

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Lurdes R. Basolí

Documentary photographer and editor

Lurdes R. Basolí

Photographer specializing in documentary photography, she has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Ramon Llull University (Barcelona). In 2010 she won the Inge Morath International Prize, awarded to women photographers under 30 years of age by the Magnum Agency. Among the other awards she has received are the Ani Pixpalace prize from Visa Pour l’Image, the FotoPres grant from Fundació La Caixa, and the Joop Swart Masterclass from World Press Photo.

His work has been exhibited in museums and art centers such as Caixaforum, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Palau Robert, Fotohof Galerie, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Baku Museum of Modern Art, Thought Pyramid Art Center or Nafasi Art Space, and also in international festivals such as PhotoEspaña, Festival Panoràmic, Photo Beijing, Noorderlicht Photofestival or the Feria Iberoamericana de Arte.

He has published editorially in magazines such as El País Semanal, The Sunday Times Magazine, La Nación, and Internazionale, and is part of the Diccionario de Fotógrafos Españoles del Siglo XIX al XXI de La Fábrica.
Nowadays she combines her commissions with teaching and her projects.

She is an artist in residence at Roca Umbert Fábrica de las Artes (Granollers, Barcelona).

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Carole Alfarah

Visual storyteller and multimedia editor

Carole Alfarah

Carole uses a visual narrative to tell stories of a humanitarian and social nature within the documentary realm, always with the desire to challenge the public and invite them to reflect on issues that she considers vital in our time.

At the beginning of her career, in 2009, she completed annual training in photojournalism with the World Press Photo Foundation which helped her to boost her work as a freelance photographer in her country. In 2015 she was awarded a scholarship by the EFTI School of Photography and Film in Madrid for her project My Beloved Broken Home, earning a Master’s Degree in Photography and Project Management.

In 2016 she received the IWMF Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists, with which she continued to develop her short documentary film titled: Rebuilding…Life. Love. Memories, which has several nominations in international festivals and is part of the selection of artistic works of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Galicia.

His projects have been widely shown in festivals and museums, among them Wa Habibi -Oh My Love-, about the war in his homeland, Syria. They have also been disseminated through editorial platforms, books, films, and international media such as Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Newsweek, Days Japan, Time, Yo Dona, Corriere della Sera, Doc Magazine or El País, among others.

Carole works regularly with International Humanitarian Organizations.

In 2011, she won the UNICEF Arab Media Award for Children’s Rights. She has been nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass of the World Press Photo Foundation and the reGeneration4 of the Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2020, she won the National Geographic Society Grant Fund for Journalists to realize her visual projects on the survivors of the pandemic.

Carole currently lives in Madrid, where she combines her commissioned work with the creation of personal projects and teaching.

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Emilio Morenatti

Spain and Portugal Chief Photographer for The Associated Press

Emilio Morenatti

He is an agency photojournalist with more than 35 years in the profession. Morenatti has covered armed conflicts, mainly in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, North Africa and Ukraine for the American news agency The Associated Press, where he currently heads the photography department in Spain and Portugal.

With a master’s degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts in London, Morenatti has been named the best photojournalist of the year in America on two occasions, in 2009 by Pictures of the Year International and in 2010 by the National Press Photographers Association of the United States. His awards include the 2011 Yonhap International Press Photo Award, Fotopres, the Godó Photojournalism Award, the Ortega y Gasset and the World Press Photo on two occasions. He has recently been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in the category of photographic reportage.

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Francisco Carrasco Garzón

Executive Director of Médicos del Mundo

Francisco Carrasco Garzón

With a background in advertising, photography, and design, he founded his own communications company after working in advertising agencies and the media. On a personal level, he opted for communication oriented to social change and created new business projects focused on that model. Since then, he has worked in communication, awareness-raising, and advocacy with numerous public organizations, foundations, and NGOs.

Specially linked to Médicos del Mundo for more than ten years; he has played different roles within the organization and has been part of this jury in four editions. For three years he has been in charge of Communication and Advocacy at Médicos del Mundo, and currently he is the Executive Director of the organization.