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Olmo Calvo, Series “Survivors seeking for shelter”. The picture shows a boy sleeping on the night of 30 August 2015 at Bristol Park in Belgrade (Serbia), place where many refugees spend the night before resuming their path towards the Hungarian frontier © Olmo Calvo
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For one more year, Doctors of the World calls the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award. This call means its 19th edition.
The award arose as a tribute and reconition of Luis Valtueña, Flors Sirera, Manuel Madrazo and Mercedes Navarro. All of them collaborators of Doctors of the World, they died in Rwanda in 1997 and in Bosnia in 1995 when they were developing humanitarian actions. Their memory allows us to denounce the reality of people suffering from right infringements, a sad situation still in force in our cities and around the world.
The awarded photographer of this edition collects images on the exodus of people coming from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and running towards Europe. The frontiers of Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and the Roszke Camp in Hungary, are the stages for these photographs.
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| Olmo Calvo, Series “Survivals seeking for shelter” This picture taken on 10 September 2015 is part of the wining series. It shows a man walking along the train rails carrying his little son after crossing the frontier between Hungary and Serbia. © Olmo Calvo |
Olmo Calvo (Santander, 1982) was photography coordinator of the Diagonal newspaper and co-founder of the photograpers cooperative SUB in Buenos Aires. He has been internationally awarded such as in the Bienal de Arte de Cuenca 2009 (Ecuador) or several awards in the Pictures of the Year in Latin America in 2010 and 2012.
In 2012, he got first price in the 16th Luis Valtueña International Photography Award. During the Spanish crisis, he did several reports such as “Fronteras Invisibles” (Invisible Frontiers) or “Víctimas de los Deshaucios” (Eviction Victims).
He participated in the PhotON International Photojournalism Festival of Valencia and in the Circuit of Documentary Photography of Barcelona. In 2014, he received the Honorary Mention of the National Award of Photojournalism and he currently works independently for national and international media.
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| Miguel Mejía, Series “The pain of returning” © Miguel Mejía |
Miguel Mejía Castro (Lima, Peru) obtained in 2015 the first position on the POY Latam Photojournalism contest. This year he has received four awards in the Humanity Photo Awards (China): two Performance Awards, one Nomination Award and one Jury´s Special Award. In October he got the Honorary Award of Journalist Excellence in Photography by the Inter American Press Association (SIP).
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| Santi Palacios, Series “Thousands of lives at risk to reach Europe” © Santi Palacios |
Santi Palacios Castaño (Madrid, 1985) collaborates with news agencies, communication media and non-governmental organisations such as the Associated Press, The New York Times or El País. Part of his work has been published in the main global newspapers and magazines and recognised with awards such as Pictures of the Year, REVELA or the Spanish National Award of Photojournalism.
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| Javier Guijarro, Series “Madrid bedroom” © Javier Guijarro |
Javier Guijarro Bagur (Palma de Mallorca, 1979) holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication by the UCM and a Master’s Degree in Documentary and Narration in Photography and Video by EFTI. He works as freelance for press companies and collaborates with publications such as Altaïr or Lonely Planet. His personal work centres around topics such as expansion, the impact of human beings in the land or the everyday life of cities and their inhabitants
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