2006 archivos - Premio Luis Valtueña

This picture was taken in May 2006, during a stay in the refugee camps of Ghihembe and Kiziba on a job for the Fundacion La Caixa, which collaborates on education projects.

Congolese refugees in Rwanda

28 December 2021

It is often practiced with rudimentary tools, without any kind of anesthetic and the most basic hygienic conditions. The deriving infections often lead many girls to death.

The bride’s price

28 December 2021

By the year 2050, the global population is expected to reach the nine billion mark, a massive increase from today's six-and-a-half billion. Overpopulation means too many people living in too small a space, and with too few resources.This is life in the Philippines capital, Manila - one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world.There are few other places on earth where so many people live so closely together. On average there are 41,282 people per square kilometre, but in some slum regions there are as many as 88,000 people living per square kilometre.

Overpopulation in Manilla, The Philippines

28 December 2021

A fire on the night of June 21, 2006, destroyed 80% of the homes. Fortunately there were no victims. Civil Protection put out the fire, and hand out some shirts and boxes of food. Most of the immigrants lost what little they had, and got no answer on how to resolve their precarious situation. This portrait is of one of the neighbourhood residents, 25 year-old Sara, inconsolable, in one of the few shacks still standing.

Sheltered in the ash

28 December 2021

Neboisha and Slavica Eremic at their house in Jurga, in central Croatia. Slavica, an ethnic Croat, married Serbian Nebojsha two years ago. Nebojsha had fled to Serbia in 1995 only to return two years later to find his family home inhabited by a Bosnian refugee. He now lives in what used to be his grandmother's cottage with Slavica with his baby son Nikola.

The serbs of Croatia

28 December 2021

Human African Trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is caused by a parasite (trypanosome) transmitted to humans by the tsetse fly, and without treatment, it is fatal. When it reaches the nervous system, patients present with neurological symptoms, sleep disruption and behavioural changes ranging from confusion to psychosis. In this image, a patient anxiously awaits the results of her tests during a sweep to detect active cases in a trypanosomiasis project in Tambura,Western Equatoria.

Southern Sudan: the fight against sleeping sickness

27 December 2021

Northern Ehiopia, 2006.

38.663.854: The anatomy of a global nightmare

27 December 2021

Bint Jabail, July 2006. Lebanon's crisis. The war between Israel and Hezbollah. A woman refugee.

Lebanon – Israel Conflict

27 December 2021

This image was taken on election day in Kabul, October 9, 2004 - the first time women were given the right to vote in a democratic election in Afghanistan. Despite inflated numbers and a fraudulent electoral process, women in Kabul - at least some of them - voted of their own free will. In rural regions, it was more likely the case that women (most of whom are illiterate) voted for whomever their husbands, fathers and brothers told them to vote for.This image was taken just after four women voted at a high school in Kabul.

Afghan women

23 December 2021

A child with cholera and his mother is in an MSF-run cholera treatment center in Malenje, Angola. May 2006.

Cholera Epidemic in Angola

23 December 2021