The 27th edition of the Luis Valtueña International Award for Humanitarian Photography arrives in Zamora to showcase the winning entries from the latest edition, which presents the results of 743 entries, 6,618 photographs from 96 countries around the world.
The award is a premiere for photographic excellence, rigour, professionalism and ethics in the coverage of work with a humanitarian focus. The award comes to Zamora for the first time, with the collaboration of the Directorate of External Action of the Junta de Castilla y León.
The exhibition is headed by Siegfried Modola, author of the winning series of this edition: Inside Myanmar’s armed revolution, which makes visible the conflict in Myanmar, a country that prohibits journalists from covering the civil war since its armed forces ousted the democratically elected government in February 2021.
Spanish photographer Adra Pallón, Argentinean photographer Eduardo Soteras and Spanish photographer Anna Surinyach have been shortlisted as finalists. Pallón, with her work Demotanasia, highlights the social and environmental problems of the rural exodus in Spain. Soteras presents his series Tigray: Ethiopia sinks into chaos, a work on a forgotten conflict in which he denounces the story of the people who are trapped between the sides in a conflict. Surinyach, addresses the drama of the deaths in transit through the Mediterranean through the work Mar de luto (Sea of Mourning).
This exhibition will be on display until 16 August in the Cloister of the University College of Zamora, during which time guided walks and activities will be organised around the exhibition.
