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Walter Astrada began his career as a photographer in 1996 at the Argentine daily La Nación. He worked for the Associated Press and France Press agencies for several years. Now a freelancer, he is mainly dedicated to long-term projects, such as one on violence against women worldwide and a group project on people affected by multiple sclerosis across Europe.

Since May 1, 2015, he has been traveling aboard a Royal Enfield motorcycle with the idea of going around the world while documenting the countries he travels through.

He gives lectures and workshops and is a member of the World Press Photo team of instructors.

His awards include three World Press Photo, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, NPPA-BOP in the categories Photojournalist of the Year and Photo of the Year 2009, PGB International Photojournalism Award, 1st Prize Days Japan award, 1st Prize Sony World Photographic Awards, 2nd Prize Foto Press La Caixa, Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, 1st Prize Multimedia in the 68th POYi and a Nomination for the Emmy Award.

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Rodrigo Abd began his career as a photographer at the Argentine newspapers La Razón (1999-2000) and La Nación (2000-2003). He has been a staff photographer for the international news agency Associated Press since 2003, based first in Guatemala, then Peru, and now in Argentina.

His journalistic work includes coverage of various social and political issues in Latin America, such as the post-conflict development in Guatemala: street violence, gangs, and femicide; the coup d’état in Honduras in 2009, the earthquake in Haiti in 2010; the Bolivarian process in Venezuela; the search for relatives of the disappeared in the Peruvian highlands; the transition of the FARC to peace in Colombia; the gold rush, conflict and ecological disaster in the Peruvian jungle, among others.

He has also portrayed stories in the Middle East: he “embedded” with U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2010; he photographed the “Arab Spring” in Libya in 2011, and the following year, the civil war in Syria, the coverage that earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 along with four other colleagues from the AP agency.

He has won prestigious awards for his work, such as the Maria Moors Cabot (2016), World Press Photo (2006 and 2013), Gabriel García Márquez Foundation Award (2022), and Picture of the Year International. His photographs have been shown in different international exhibitions, such as Visa Pour l ́Image, in Perpignan, France (2011); the Cultural Center of Spain in Antigua Guatemala (2012) and the Photography Center of Montevideo, Uruguay (2016).

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Photographer specializing in documentary photography, she has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Ramon Llull University (Barcelona). In 2010 she won the Inge Morath International Prize, awarded to women photographers under 30 years of age by the Magnum Agency. Among the other awards she has received are the Ani Pixpalace prize from Visa Pour l’Image, the FotoPres grant from Fundació La Caixa, and the Joop Swart Masterclass from World Press Photo.

His work has been exhibited in museums and art centers such as Caixaforum, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Palau Robert, Fotohof Galerie, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Baku Museum of Modern Art, Thought Pyramid Art Center or Nafasi Art Space, and also in international festivals such as PhotoEspaña, Festival Panoràmic, Photo Beijing, Noorderlicht Photofestival or the Feria Iberoamericana de Arte.

He has published editorially in magazines such as El País Semanal, The Sunday Times Magazine, La Nación, and Internazionale, and is part of the Diccionario de Fotógrafos Españoles del Siglo XIX al XXI de La Fábrica.
Nowadays she combines her commissions with teaching and her projects.

She is an artist in residence at Roca Umbert Fábrica de las Artes (Granollers, Barcelona).

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Carole uses a visual narrative to tell stories of a humanitarian and social nature within the documentary realm, always with the desire to challenge the public and invite them to reflect on issues that she considers vital in our time.

At the beginning of her career, in 2009, she completed annual training in photojournalism with the World Press Photo Foundation which helped her to boost her work as a freelance photographer in her country. In 2015 she was awarded a scholarship by the EFTI School of Photography and Film in Madrid for her project My Beloved Broken Home, earning a Master’s Degree in Photography and Project Management.

In 2016 she received the IWMF Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists, with which she continued to develop her short documentary film titled: Rebuilding…Life. Love. Memories, which has several nominations in international festivals and is part of the selection of artistic works of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Galicia.

His projects have been widely shown in festivals and museums, among them Wa Habibi -Oh My Love-, about the war in his homeland, Syria. They have also been disseminated through editorial platforms, books, films, and international media such as Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Newsweek, Days Japan, Time, Yo Dona, Corriere della Sera, Doc Magazine or El País, among others.

Carole works regularly with International Humanitarian Organizations.

In 2011, she won the UNICEF Arab Media Award for Children’s Rights. She has been nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass of the World Press Photo Foundation and the reGeneration4 of the Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2020, she won the National Geographic Society Grant Fund for Journalists to realize her visual projects on the survivors of the pandemic.

Carole currently lives in Madrid, where she combines her commissioned work with the creation of personal projects and teaching.

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He is an agency photojournalist with more than 35 years in the profession. Morenatti has covered armed conflicts, mainly in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, North Africa and Ukraine for the American news agency The Associated Press, where he currently heads the photography department in Spain and Portugal.

With a master’s degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts in London, Morenatti has been named the best photojournalist of the year in America on two occasions, in 2009 by Pictures of the Year International and in 2010 by the National Press Photographers Association of the United States. His awards include the 2011 Yonhap International Press Photo Award, Fotopres, the Godó Photojournalism Award, the Ortega y Gasset and the World Press Photo on two occasions. He has recently been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in the category of photographic reportage.

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With a background in advertising, photography, and design, he founded his own communications company after working in advertising agencies and the media. On a personal level, he opted for communication oriented to social change and created new business projects focused on that model. Since then, he has worked in communication, awareness-raising, and advocacy with numerous public organizations, foundations, and NGOs.

Specially linked to Médicos del Mundo for more than ten years; he has played different roles within the organization and has been part of this jury in four editions. For three years he has been in charge of Communication and Advocacy at Médicos del Mundo, and currently he is the Executive Director of the organization.

Claudi Carreras is a curator and editor of documentary photography of reference in Ibero-America. He has participated in various editorial projects. In Brazil, he is a founding partner of the publishing house Madalena and collaborates with international publishers such as RM and Gustavo Gili. 

He has curated numerous solo and collective exhibitions which have traveled around the world in more than 50 cities on four continents. In 2008, he directed the First Meeting of Latin American Photographic Collectives in São Paulo and, in 2010, led the E.CO (Encounter of Photo Collectives) project of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He was general curator of the Festival Paraty em Foco in Rio de Janeiro from 2011 to 2015 and for Latin America of the PhotoQuai biennial edition of the Quai Branly Museum, Paris in 2013 and 2015. Since its origin, he has also been an advisor to the Latin American Forum of Photography in São Paulo.

He has been the creator of exhibition projects such as Laberinto de Miradas (2008-2011), a journey through documentary photography in Ibero-America. He is currently the Director of VIST, a new platform for producing, exhibiting, and disseminating contemporary visual narratives in different formats and curator of Africamericanos and DPV (Drugs, Politics, and Violence) projects. Furthermore, he is also curator and editor of the National Geographic Society’s Inside the Curve project, a visual reflection on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide.

Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York and raised in Argentina. She studied Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and General Studies at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. She is best known for her long-running projects such as the series On the Sixth Day, and the monograph The Adventures of Guille and Belinda I and II, Le Gendarme Sur la Colline, and Sorry, Welcome.

She’s a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Hasselblad Foundation Grant, Sundance development grant, Robert Gardner Peabody Fellowship, and a Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award. His photographs are in public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has photographed for The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek, and New York Magazine. Sanguinetti is a member of Magnum Photos since 2007. She is based in San Francisco and is a MacDowell residency fellow.

Web: alessandrasanguinetti.com

Ana Maria Arévalo uses visual storytelling to advocate for women’s rights and environmental issues. She is a National Geographic Explorer, a member of Ayün Fotógrafas and Women Photograph. Mixing rigorous research with intimate stories, she wants to make a positive impact through her projects. Her most challenging work, The Meaning of Life, documents her husband’s fight against testicular cancer.

Her series about the conditions of women in prison in Venezuela, Días Eternos, won the LUMIX Photo Award, Lucas Dolega Award, the Women Photograph grant, and Camille Lepage Award. In 2021 this photo project was expanded to El Salvador (Central America) with the support of LHSA and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She is based in Bilbao, Spain, and frequently develops projects in Latin America.

Web: anamariaarevalogosen.com/

Susana Vera studied photojournalism as an exchange student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, U.S.A. She went on to work for several newspapers such as the Sun Publications weeklies in the Chicago area and The News & Observer in North Carolina before returning to her native Spain in 2003. She is currently based in Madrid where she has been working for Reuters for the past eighteen years covering a wide range of news, sports, and feature assignments. Vera was awarded the Breaking News Photography Pulitzer Prize as part of the Reuters team who covered the pro-democracy, anti-government protests that unfolded over many months in Hong Kong in 2019.

Web: www.susanaveraphotos.com

Fiona has over twenty years’ picture editing experience across a range of newspaper titles. She was picture editor of the Guardian for ten years before taking up the role of Head of Photography for the Guardian News and Media Group. Throughout her career, she has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time including the events surrounding 9/11, conflicts around the world, large-scale natural disasters, and the humanitarian crises resulting from the growing refugee numbers across the world and now the global pandemic.

With a background in advertising, photography, and design, he founded his own communications company after working in advertising agencies and the media. On a personal level, he opted for communication oriented to social change and created new business projects focused on that model. Since then, he has worked in communication, awareness-raising, and advocacy with numerous public organizations, foundations, and NGOs.

Specially linked to Médicos del Mundo for more than ten years; he has played different roles within the organization and has been part of this jury in four editions. For three years he has been in charge of Communication and Advocacy at Médicos del Mundo, and currently he is the Executive Director of the organization.

A leading documentary photographer, Susan Meiselas (USA) is widely acknowledged for her work in the conflict zones of Central America (1978–1983). The Magnum photographer has focused on a wide range of challenging issues from ethnic and religious conflicts, human rights issues to the sex industry.

Meiselas has had one-woman exhibitions in many cities around the world, and her work is included in collections around the world. She has received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for her work in Nicaragua (1979); the Leica Award for Excellence (1982); the Engelhard Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art (1985); the Hasselblad Foundation Photography prize (1994); the Cornell Capa Infinity Award (2005); the Harvard Arts Medal (2011), and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019).

Meiselas has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since its founding in 2007. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Acumen Fund and the Vera List Center for Arts and Culture in New York.

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She has a degree in Fine Arts from the New School for Social Research in New York and a master’s degree in management functions from ESADE. She is a cultural manager, independent curator, photographer’s agent, editor and professor of documentary photography. 

Since 2001, she has directed the Photographic Social Vision Foundation. She has worked at the Guggenheim in New York, at the CCCB in Barcelona, and for the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam as Secretary of the Jury for the 2018 edition of the competition. As a nominator of young talent, she collaborates with the Incipiens Albert Camús Award, Leica Oscar Barnack Award, and the Joop Swart Masterclass. 

She represents photographic archives of national authors such as the first woman photojournalist Joana Biarnés and the French photographer Jacques Léonard. She is an archive management consultant for the photographers Mey Rahola and Isabel Azcárate and for the Oriol Maspons Archive. Since 2014 she is a member of the Committee of experts that promotes the National Plan of Photography of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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Photojournalist with more than ten years of experience. His work is published in international media such as The New York Times, National Geographic, Paris Match and Leica Magazine, among others.

As a documentary photographer, he has developed projects focused on social issues in Latin America. In 2012, he published the photography book La ruta del cóndor; and in 2013, Fiestas de San Pacho, Quibdó, together with the +1 photography collective.

His photographic series such as Transputamierda and La firma de los ríos, have been exhibited in galleries and festivals in several countries around the world. His most recent exhibition, Los días póstumos de una guerra sin final opened at Bandy Bandy Gallery in Bogotá in February 2020.

His photographs have been recognized with the Jury Prize at Days Japan International Photojournalism Award (2017); the Portfolio Review New York Times 2017; and the Eddie Adams Workshop XXVII in New York (2014).

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Arianna Rinaldo is a freelance professional working with photography at a wide range. Since 2012 she is the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, the international photography festival in Tuscany. She is also a curator of photography for PhEST, a festival on contemporary photography and art in Monopoli, Puglia. For 9 years she was the director of OjodePez, the documentary photo magazine published in Spanish and English bu La Fabrica, Madrid.

Arianna’s relationship with photography started in 1998 as Archive Director at Magnum Photos, NY; and later as a photo editor for Colors magazine in Italy. Based in Milan from 2004 to 2011, Arianna worked as a freelance curator and a photo consultant for various publications, among which 4 years at D-La Repubblica (2008-2011). 

Based in Barcelona since 2012, Arianna continues to develop photography projects at an international level, also leads workshops, masterclasses, and mentorship sessions. She is a regular guest as a speaker, portfolio reviewer, and jury at renowned photographic events around the world. She is in the selection committee of BJP’s Ones to Watch and WPP’s 6×6 Global Talent Program.

He is an agency photojournalist with more than 35 years in the profession. Morenatti has covered armed conflicts, mainly in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, North Africa and Ukraine for the American news agency The Associated Press, where he currently heads the photography department in Spain and Portugal.

With a master’s degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts in London, Morenatti has been named the best photojournalist of the year in America on two occasions, in 2009 by Pictures of the Year International and in 2010 by the National Press Photographers Association of the United States. His awards include the 2011 Yonhap International Press Photo Award, Fotopres, the Godó Photojournalism Award, the Ortega y Gasset and the World Press Photo on two occasions. He has recently been awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in the category of photographic reportage.

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Staff photographer of El País newspaper, he currently works as the Head of Photography for El País Semanal, the weekly magazine of the newspaper. He began as a photographer at El Correo newspaper in Bilbao, combining work and his studies in Journalism. Based in Madrid since 1990, he has worked covering all kinds of daily news, interviews, and photo stories for all supplements of the newspaper. His photos have been released in international newspapers and magazines through the syndication department of the newspaper. Gorka Lejarcegi has been awarded the Ortega y Gasset prize for Photojournalism.

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With a background in advertising, photography, and design, he founded his own communications company after working in advertising agencies and the media. On a personal level, he opted for communication oriented to social change and created new business projects focused on that model. Since then, he has worked in communication, awareness-raising, and advocacy with numerous public organizations, foundations, and NGOs.

Specially linked to Médicos del Mundo for more than ten years; he has played different roles within the organization and has been part of this jury in four editions. For three years he has been in charge of Communication and Advocacy at Médicos del Mundo, and currently he is the Executive Director of the organization.

Staff photographer of El País newspaper, he currently works as the Head of Photography for El País Semanal, the weekly magazine of the newspaper. He began as a photographer at El Correo newspaper in Bilbao, combining work and his studies in Journalism. Based in Madrid since 1990, he has worked covering all kinds of daily news, interviews, and photo stories for all supplements of the newspaper. His photos have been released in international newspapers and magazines through the syndication department of the newspaper. Gorka Lejarcegi has been awarded the Ortega y Gasset prize for Photojournalism.

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With a background in advertising, photography, and design, he founded his own communications company after working in advertising agencies and the media. On a personal level, he opted for communication oriented to social change and created new business projects focused on that model. Since then, he has worked in communication, awareness-raising, and advocacy with numerous public organizations, foundations, and NGOs.

Specially linked to Médicos del Mundo for more than ten years; he has played different roles within the organization and has been part of this jury in four editions. For three years he has been in charge of Communication and Advocacy at Médicos del Mundo, and currently he is the Executive Director of the organization.

Gervasio Sánchez (Córdoba, 1959) is a photojournalist specializing in armed conflicts; between 1984 and 1992 he covered most of those that took place in Latin America and published his work in Heraldo de Aragón, El País, Diario 16, and different magazines. He collaborates with Cadena Ser, the British public broadcaster BBC, La Vanguardia Magazine, Tiempo magazine, and Heraldo de Aragón.

In 1995, he undertook his photographic project Mined Lives on the impact of anti-personnel mines on the populations of the most mined countries in the world, including Afghanistan, Angola, and Cambodia, which concluded in 1997 with a book and an exhibition.

Other books published include The Siege of Sarajevo (1994); Kosovo, Chronicle of Deportation (1999), and Children of War (2000). In 2001, his book La Caravana de la Muerte. Pinochet’s Victims, and in 2005, Sierra Leone. War and Peace.

He received the National Photography Award and the King of Spain International Journalism Award in the photography section for a snapshot from his collection Vidas minadas, 10 años después (Mined Lives, 10 years later).

Journalist. He has worked for several newspapers, including La Vanguardia, where he was a reporter for twenty-five years. He has covered numerous conflicts and events that marked the end of the Cold War and is a great connoisseur of African contexts. In 2002, he received the Miguel Gil Journalism Award and in 2004 the Ortega y Gasset. He is the author of several books and currently collaborates with several media.

Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

With a background in advertising, photography, and design, he founded his own communications company after working in advertising agencies and the media. On a personal level, he opted for communication oriented to social change and created new business projects focused on that model. Since then, he has worked in communication, awareness-raising, and advocacy with numerous public organizations, foundations, and NGOs.

Specially linked to Médicos del Mundo for more than ten years; he has played different roles within the organization and has been part of this jury in four editions. For three years he has been in charge of Communication and Advocacy at Médicos del Mundo, and currently he is the Executive Director of the organization.

Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

His “love affair” with photography began in 1977, and as the majority of the authors of his generation, he was self-taught.  At the start of the eighties, he entered the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid where he met Gerardo Vielba, Gabriel Cualladó, Paco Gómez, and Juan Dolcet. In 1990, he traveled to Cuzco, Peru, in order to make, together with Juan Manuel Díaz Burgos, the positive prints of the Peruvian master, Martin Chambi, based on the original glass plates.

Numerous exhibitions have been held with his work, such as: Open Spain, Documentary Photography. Itinerant through the United States and Spain (1992); En Avión, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (1992); Instituto Gaudi, Lima (1993); El Perú de Vargas Llosa, Alcalá de Henares and itinerant (1995); Visión Mediterránea, itinerant (1998); Perú, viaje al sol, Galerie Vu, Paris, Sala Las Claras, Murcia and itinerant through France, Italy and Belgium (2001); Extraños, Canal de Isabel II, Madrid and itinerant (2003); Unique, Paris (2004); Agua al desnudo, Canal Foundation, Paris (2004); Ten views. Contemporary Spanish Photography, Tokyo (2005); Esperando al cargo, Sestao, Bilbao and itinerant (2006); Orsay Museum, France (2006); Espacios, Contemporary Art Museum of La Coruña (2007) Etiopia, Fernán Gómez Theatre, Madrid (2009); Paseo por el amor y la muerte, CentroCentro, Madrid (2011); Sete, France (2011); Perú, viaje al sol. Círculo del Arte, Barcelona (2011); Martín Chambi -Perú- Castro Prieto. CEART (Tomás y Valiente Art Centre), Fuenlabrada, Madrid and itinerant (2012); Etiopía. Galerie VU, Paris. (2012), Chambi -Perú- Castro Prieto (2013) Itinerant through Spain: Madrid, Zaragoza, Cadiz, Almería;  Los paisajes de Don Quijote, Liberté Theatre, Toulon, France (2013).

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Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

Photography chief editor of the newspaper El País

Gervasio Sánchez (Córdoba, 1959) is a photojournalist specializing in armed conflicts; between 1984 and 1992 he covered most of those that took place in Latin America and published his work in Heraldo de Aragón, El País, Diario 16, and different magazines. He collaborates with Cadena Ser, the British public broadcaster BBC, La Vanguardia Magazine, Tiempo magazine, and Heraldo de Aragón.

In 1995, he undertook his photographic project Mined Lives on the impact of anti-personnel mines on the populations of the most mined countries in the world, including Afghanistan, Angola, and Cambodia, which concluded in 1997 with a book and an exhibition.

Other books published include The Siege of Sarajevo (1994); Kosovo, Chronicle of Deportation (1999), and Children of War (2000). In 2001, his book La Caravana de la Muerte. Pinochet’s Victims, and in 2005, Sierra Leone. War and Peace.

He received the National Photography Award and the King of Spain International Journalism Award in the photography section for a snapshot from his collection Vidas minadas, 10 años después (Mined Lives, 10 years later).