Samuel Aranda

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Samuel Aranda (* 1979 in Santa Coloma de Gramenet , Spain ) is a Spanish photojournalist .

life and career

Aranda started working as a photographer for the Spanish newspapers El País and El Periódico de Catalunya at the age of 19 . Two years later he traveled to the Middle East to report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the Spanish news agency EFE . Since 2004 he has worked for the news agency AFP , for which he reported from Spain, Pakistan, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Iraq, the Palestinian Territories, Morocco, Western Sahara and China.

His 2006 report on African refugees traveling to Europe received the Spanish National Prize for Photography from the photojournalists' association ANIGP-TV. Since then, Aranda has been working as a freelance photographer again. Among other things, he reported on the drying up Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, social conflicts in India, Kosovo, the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, Colombia, the Transnistria conflict , street children in Bucharest and the Italian Camorra .

From 2011 he documented the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. His picture A woman protects her son from reporting on a demonstration during the protests in Yemen won the award for Press Photo of the Year 2011, the most coveted award in photo journalism. It shows a veiled Muslim woman holding an injured son. The jury justified the decision by saying that the photo was an example of “the entire region”, symbolizing the protests in Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria and thus the entire Arab Spring.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b World Press Photo of the Year 2011 ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at worldpressphoto.org, accessed February 10, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldpressphoto.org
  2. ↑ a b Veiled Suffering - the press photo of the year at spiegel.de, accessed on February 10, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Aranda, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Coloma de Gramenet , Spain