Photojournalist Mario Lusa agency Cruz won today the main prize of Photojournalism Award Station Picture Viana do Castelo, with a report entitled ‘Talibés, contemporary slaves. ”
The winning work portrays the “talibés”, children who are enslaved and tortured in Islamic schools in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau and has been awarded the World Press Photo.
for the president of the international jury, Aidan Sullivan work of Mario Cruz is composed of “powerful images and an immediately presents us with an impressive history.”
Mario Cruz was in May and June 2014 in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau and had been awarded the World Press Photo with a story framed in the same job.
the prize, which has as its main partner the Municipality of Viana do Castelo, intended himself to reward reports of Portuguese photographers, the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP), and Galicia, or by foreigners in these territories.
in the photo category of the year, the novelty of the seventh edition of Award Picture Station, the winner was the Galician Gabriel Tizon, captured in Moria camp in Lesvos Island, Greece.
the work, according to the organization, depicts the “drama of families arriving in despair the shores of the Mediterranean, fleeing the horrors of war and looking for a more secure future for their families. “
Gabriel Tizon also won two awards, winning in the category of Sports and achieve a mention honorable in the Daily Life section.
Leonel de Castro, the Journal News, won in the categories of Arts and Shows and Peninsular Northwest with a view to deepening the links between northern Portugal and Galicia, this year taking theme Wine and Vine.
the jury of the seventh edition of the prize also awarded with two distinctions photojournalists José Carlos Carvalho, the News prize and honorable mention in Subjects daily, and Bruno Colaco, with the Series Pictures and honorable mention in Photo of the Year.
in the remaining categories, prizes were awarded to Nuno Fox in the category Affairs contemporaries, Gonzalo Delgado in Daily Life and Vlad Sokhin Environment.
the jury also decided to award an honorable mention in the Environment category, rewarding the work of Galician photojournalist Peter ARMESTRE.
This year, the Exchange Station image was attributed to Bruno Simões Castanheira, the winner of the edition 2015 . Bruno Castle was chosen among the ten candidates who show that bag with the work “silence-Villages Places and Sites of the Peneda-Geres National Park.”
the work will be published in an exhibition and a book to be presented in 2017, the day of the announcement of the winners of the Prize Picture Station.
This year, the station image recorded the participation of 200 photojournalists, which, according to the organization, is “almost all Portuguese professionals “, and presented the contest 336 articles and more about a hundred applications for grants and the Photo of the Year.
the award program also includes the exhibition” American “, the American Christopher Morris, which is open until the end of May in the Alto Minho capital
the exhibition “Filigree – the tradition is still what it was.”, António Pedro Santos resulting from winning project Handbag 2015 is also reflected by the end of next month in the space of the old Town Hall.
in addition to Aidan Sullivan, vice president of Getty Images and chairman of the World Press Photo 2012 jury also integrated João Silva, the newspaper photojournalist New York Times, Cheryl Newman, the Telegraph Magazine cinematographer, and Laurent Rebours, agency photograph of chief Associated Press in Paris.
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