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Category: Awards


After seven years in prison, Mohamed Khaled Krayem is finally free. His family is happy, but he struggles to think about the future as he must attend medical visits to recover after his release. “They used to beat us with iron and plastic pipes on our hands and feet,” Mohamed says. Welcome: *ahlan wa sahlan.* The interviewees utter these words as if referring to an old acquaintance: *ahlan wa sahlan.* And another: *dulab* (wheel). This method of torture, though simple, became one of the regime's trademarks: seating the prisoner inside a wheel, restraining them, and beating them. “They put you on your back inside the tire and start hitting your feet with strips made from another tire they had cut,” explains Mohamed, the survivor with broken teeth. In the photo, Mohamed assumes the same position he used to sleep in while in prison. After seven years of lying in the same posture, his muscle memory, still fresh since his release only days ago, instinctively reproduces the positions he was forced to adopt in his cell. The lack of space and the repetitive nature of those movements mean he remembers exactly how he lay down and slept in Sednaya Jail.
Awards

Samuel Nacar, winner of the 2025 Luis Valtueña Award for his visual denunciation of torture in Syria

19 November 2025

Awards

Mahmoud Issa wins the Luis Valtueña 2024 Award for his photo reportage on Gaza: “Siege and hunger”

7 November 2024

Inside Myanmar's armed revolution ©Siegfried Modola, winner of the 27th edition of the Luis Valtueña Humanitarian Photography Award
Awards

Siegfried Modola is the winner of the 27th edition of the Luis Valtueña Award with a work that makes the armed conflict in Myanmar visible

28 November 2023

Juana Ramayo Pacheco (95 years old), 2021. Her sister Catalina was a teenager when she was shot, on the same day that the rebel troops entered Nerva, August 26, 1936. She was arrested because she had supposedly gone to see a demonstration. Juana, at 95 years old, is still afraid. She has never let her children go to a protest.
Awards

María Clauss wins the 26th Luis Valtueña Award with an entry that highlights our historical memory

5 December 2022

Alexander - one of the detained protesters - poses for a portrait in front of arrest on Okrestina street in Minsk, Belarus. Alexander was going to his friend's apartment when the Belarusian military caught him on the first night of the protests (Aug. 10, 2020). He spent four days in custody. He was beaten multiple times. Alexander studies at the Minsk Polytechnic.
Awards

Polish photographer Jędrzej Nowicki wins the 25th Luis Valtueña Award with innovative work on repression in Belarus

23 November 2021

An elderly woman rests on her bed at a nursing home after a team of volunteers from the Spanish NGO Open Arms had performed a PCR test for the detection of coronavirus, province of Barcelona, ​​Spain, April 14, 2020.
Awards - Calls

Santi Palacios wins 2020 Luis Valtueña Award

13 November 2020

Awards

El fotógrafo iraní Mohsen Kaboli es el nuevo ganador

13 December 2019

Awards

Juan Medina wins the 22nd edition of the Luis Valtueña Humanitarian Photography Award

5 December 2018

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