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Call for Entries, Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award

Author:
Craig Zelizer

August 12, 2019

PRESENTATION

 

The Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, granted by Médicos del Mundo Spain recognizes the work of professional photographers who, through their images, denounce inequities, injustices and abuses, or testify to the situations that propitiate them or that fight.

By giving this prize the proper name of the photographer and cooperator Luis Valtueña, tribute is paid to his memory and that of three other cooperating members of the association who were murdered in Rwanda (1997) and in Bosnia (1995) when they were carrying out actions humanitarian

This award also wants to highlight human values and evidence all kinds of violations of people's rights. Doctors of the World is firmly committed to documentary photography to raise awareness among the general public and promote social mobilization, in order to contribute to the eradication of the worst of diseases: injustice.

 

CALENDAR

July 10, 2019

Opening of the call

November 8, 2019

Closure of the call

November 11 and 12, 2019

Correction of errors

January, 2020

Award presentation and exhibition opening

 

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BASES OF THE XXIII EDITION

1 / Participants

Photographers and photographers of any nationality, of legal age and related to the documentary approach, may participate.

The workers of Doctors of the World, nor their relatives up to the first degree of consanguinity will not be able to concur to this call. Neither may the members of the jury, nor the technical team directly linked to the Prize, nor their relatives to the first degree of consanguinity.

 

 

2/ Themes

The photographs must narrate or tell a story related to these topics: humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, human rights violations, armed conflicts, natural disasters, refugee and immigrant populations or socially excluded groups

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