On Tuesday 10 September, the Manacor Arts and Humanities Centre opened its doors to present the exhibition of the 27th edition of the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Prize, which is awarded annually by Médicos del Mundo Spain to showcase the sensitivity and commitment of photojournalists who, through their gaze, bring us closer to the most difficult realities of the world.
The inauguration was attended by representatives of the Manacor Town Council, which has opened its doors to Médicos del Mundo Balearic Islands in order to bring the exhibition to the east of the island of Mallorca for the first time, as well as the president and regional coordinator of the organisation.
The exhibition can be visited from 10 to 24 September, to bring closer parallel universes that do not always appear in the media, and to which humanitarian photography gives its place in this exhibition: because their stories deserve to be told.
The winning series of the 27th edition; Inside Myanmar’s armed revolution, by Siegfried Modola, heads the exhibition and 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.
The three finalist projects by Spanish photographer Adra Pallón, Argentinean Eduardo Soteras and Spaniard Anna Surinyach complete the exhibition. Pallón, with his work Demotanasia, highlights the social and environmental problems associated with the abandonment of rural Galicia. Soteras, with his series Tigray: Ethiopia’s cascade into chaos, shows us a work on a forgotten conflict in which she denounces the story of the people who are trapped between the sides of a conflict. Surinyach tackles the drama of the deaths in transit across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean through the work Sea of mourning.
In detail:
10 to 24 September 2024
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday from 9.00h to 15:00h.
Saturday 14 September from 18.00h to 20.30h
Where: Centre d’Arts i Humanitats, Carrer Major, 22. Manacor
Free entry
