The jury of this eighth edition has awarded spanish photojournalist Javier Arcenillas, for his work about violence in Latin America.

Le reportage

Sociological essay of Central America, the most violent zone in the world in its most dramatic and miserable. The impotence of pain and hell asocial victims of murderers in a daily theater of war where violence is always the news of the day in his red note.
It is very necessary to expose and teach this story to show the true nature of violence because newspapers, television and magazines do not offer current. And that’s too bad because it’s terribly necessary that these stories have a voice in society Central America is considered one of the most violent places in the world. Every day in the streets of cities like San Pedro Sula, Guatemala City, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador and Mexico City, the murders, robberies and violence are increasingly present. The last link in the chain of violence is the grotesque of Narcotourism in Colombia and extreme tourism in America Central that make these territories stained with blood and tears a circus. Ineffective internal politics of the area is unstable, drug trafficking into the U.S. is uncontrollable and unsafe zone of Maras, or control of the Zetas in the border is the closest thing to a daily war.

The report of the Organization of American States notes that in a country such as Honduras violent death occurs every 74 minutes without war there was, in 2012, the most violent nation in the world, totaling 7104 killings documented by police.

In these places the use of youth and children to train as Sicarios is a regular job. They are attracted by the ease of earning money that gives them respect and fear. In the process of training the young killer from the poorest strata of society consumed becoming true heralds of death. Deprotection of these societies for the defense and protection of children in these situations of violence is alarming.

Biographie

Humanist, Psychologist at the Complutense University of Madrid. He teaches photojournalism and documentary photography at the International School PICA. He develops humanitarian essays where the main characters are integrated in societies that borders and sets upon any reason or human rights in a world that becomes increasingly more and more indifferent.
An award winning photographer, among these, could be mentioned:
•Arts Press Award, KODAK Young Photographer
•Atlanta Journalism Awards ( Best Photographer)
•Scholarship of the European Social Fund
•Euro Press by Fujifilm
*Fotopress Prize
•POYI
•Sony World Photograhic Award´10
•Fotoevidence 2011,
•Terry O´Neill Award 2012 & 2014
•Photographer of the year in Moscow Photo Award 2014
•Getty Images Grant 2015
•POYI Latam 2017
•World Press Photo 2018
Along these years, he has achieved projects on Latin America like “Territorios”, in Jamaica, an assignment that approaches the “Traffic of Marihuana” or the Boxing Olympic School in La Habana. In 2013 entered the dictionary of Spanish photographers. It has 4 books published, “City Hope” on the satellite cities that populate the landfills of Latin America, “Welcome” that tells the story of the Rohingya refugees of Myanmar in the Kutupalong camp, Sicarios on the hitmen in Central America, and UFOPRESENCES in 2018. In the year 2016 La Fabrica publishes a Photobolsillo within the Photographers Spanish collection. His most complete news articles outside Spain can be read in Time, CNN, IL Magazine, Leica Magazine, Der Spiegel, Stern, GEO, VICE News, National Geographic, TRIP, El Mundo, El País Semanal, Planeta Futuro, Zazpika, El periódico de Guatemala as most important magazines. At the moment, he arranges Humanitarian Photographic assignments.
Their final reports and publications can be seen El Pais and El Mundo, El Confidencial and Libero.