Spanish photojournalist Emilio Morenatti spent six months Ukraine on different trips. “I saw the metaphor of the geographical interruption of the country by the invader and the interruptions that people suffered due to weapons. This was my way of examining that individual drama. As a war-wounded amputee, I have an advantage:By sharing my experiences, I get closer to these people and support them psychologically. I lost my leg years ago. I found it in Ukraine Woman burying her leg next to her 14-year-old sonHe was killed in the attack in the garden of his house.” His images of the war in Ukraine gave him a photo honorable mention in World press photo 2023 (Europe), shoulder to shoulder with Ukrainians Evgeny Maloletkawriter Photography of the Year, ‘Air Raid on Mariupol Maternity Hospital’ follows injured pregnant woman Iryna Kalinina, who died shortly after giving birth to her stillborn baby, whom she named Miron, meaning peace. Ukraine is one of the most visible issues Afghanistan is under Taliban controldate Protests for women in Irandevastating and global effects climate crisis…at the same time migrations and stories of social inequality, resilience, and gender issues. World Press Photo 2023 winning works and showing the exhibition until December 17 Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB).
Presents the prestigious exhibition of photojournalism and documentary photography with Morenatti Caesar Dezfuli (Madrid, 1991), the only Spaniard to receive a global award in the Open Format category. This is thanks to ‘Passengers’, a project about the complex reality of the world that started in 2016 and is still ongoing. migration in the MediterraneanIt follows the lives of 75 people recently rescued at sea after taking photographs.
The exhibition, which will travel to 90 cities, comes to the Catalan capital for the nineteenth year in a row. Photographic Social Vision Foundation. They reveal themselves 119 images 24 regional winners and 4 global winners from 23 countries (all selected from 3,752 photographers from 127 countries and 60,448 photos submitted to the competition).
Take care of victims
WITH Morenatti, Associated Press photographer, loves being involved in the stories he tells. “My aim is to be useful, I am trying to tell a common experience and contribute something to people with amputations, which are a part of Ukrainian history. Like an 11-year-old girl I followed who lost both legs. The journalist, saddened by the conflict in Gaza, said, “The United States of America, where they gave their new legs ‘How long the process was done there. His mother asked me how I saw them, how it was. “He returned home and is now participating in races,” he says. It makes him forget about the war in Ukraine.
Organ trafficking and hunger in Afghanistan
Graphic Report of the Year from Denmark Mads Nissen, ‘The price of peace in Afghanistan’. In Kabul, burqa-clad women beg for bread, and 15-year-old Khalil Ahmed shows the camera a huge scar: His family sold one of his kidneys for $3,500 on the organ black market.
The main awards include Anush Babajanyan’s Long-Term Project ‘Battered Waters’ and the Open Format ‘Here’ World Press Photo about water scarcity aggravated by the climate crisis in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. ‘The Doors Don’t Know Me’ by Mohamed Mahdy, which explores the effects of rising sea levels on Al Max, a fishing village in Alexandria, Egypt.
2022 exhibition attracted attention 62,000 visitorsCo-produced by CCCB and in collaboration with the Banco Sabadell Foundation. Canceled in Budapest (Hungary), which Marta Echevarría of the World Press Photo Foundation condemns for dealing with LGTBI issues The first case of censorship they experienced in Europe.