The Faculty of Humanities in Toledo is the setting for the 27th edition of the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, an initiative of Médicos del Mundo that makes visible, through moving images, realities that are silenced in the mainstream media.
The exhibition can be visited from 24 April to 9 May and forms part of the project ‘For the Right to Health’, with the support of Toledo City Council, the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and its Faculty of Humanities. The aim is to bring the public closer to the human consequences of conflicts, forced migrations and social crises.
Among the award-winning works is that of Italian photographer Siegfried Modola, who portrays the civil war in Myanmar in his series Inside Myanmar’s Armed Revolution, showing the struggle of the Karenni people in the face of military repression. The Argentinean photojournalist Eduardo Soteras has been recognised for Tigray: Ethiopia’s cascade into chaos, which documents the conflict in this African region.
The spotlight also falls on Europe with Demothanasia, a work by the Spaniard Adra Pallón, who denounces the institutional neglect of the elderly in Galicia, which has been emptied out. For her part, the journalist Anna Surinyach moves us with Mourning Sea, a series that documents the tragedy of migratory routes by sea and the invisible mourning of those who await news of their disappeared.
An essential exhibition that questions and moves us, reminding us that photography can be an act of resistance and denunciation.
