Vídeo entrevista en la prestigiosa LENS CULTURE Magazine.
In 2016, Antonio Aragón Renuncio, a passionate and dedicated Spanish photojournalist, won the $120,000 grand prize in the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) competition in Dubai. His picture was chosen as best embodying the theme, «Happiness.»
Taking home the HIPA purse, one of the largest cash prizes for photography in the entire world, was a shocking contrast for Renuncio. As a storyteller who has dedicated his career to showing his viewers painful and difficult subjects in some of the world’s least documented areas, his selection in Dubai provided an unexpected platform from which share his work.
In this short video interview, Renuncio talks more about his projects, including the prize-winning image, and about life on the road as a photojournalist. Enjoy!
—LensCulture
Hoy hacen referencia a mi trabajo en la prestigiosa Better Photography Magazine
Un nuevo premio, el Grand Prize HIPA 2015-16.
Antonio Aragón Renuncio was awarded with the grand prize at the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA), winning $120,000 at the ceremony, which took place at Dubai’s Burj Plaza last night. The Spanish photographer’s winning image, based on the season’s main theme of ‘Happiness’, depicts a group of impoverished Togolese children playing outside an NGO clinic. The 5th Season HIPA received a total of 80,420 photographs from 32,712 photographers from 173 countries around the world.
For five years, the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) competition has celebrated the work of photographers from around the world. This year, awards were given in the categories of happiness, wildlife, and father and son, as well as general excellence. The winning photos capture moments of happiness, love, pain, and tragedy in countries ranging from Chile to Egypt to Russia to Togo.The $120,000 grand prize (one of the largest in the world) was awarded to Spanish photographer Antonio Aragon Renuncio for his lively portrayal of children playing in West Africa (above). Other winners include National Geographic photographers Steve Winter (wildlife) and Brent Stirton (happiness).
He sido seleccionado en los III DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY DAYS de Estambul (Turquía).
Dear Antonio,
3rd Documentary Days will be started on 20th May till 12 June .
We would like to inform you that your work was selected and will be exhibited on 21th May Saturday 13:00 at Salt Galata and 23rd of May 19:00 at Galata Fotoğrafhanesi in İstanbul.
More information about your work and the programme ( in Turkish) will be published on our web page within next days.
WOMAN section link / information about photographers & their works :
http://fotografvakfi.org.tr/bfg16/kadin/
Foto Nikon Profesional 2015
Un nuevo premio, accesit en el FOTO NIKON PRO 2105.
Apreciado/a Antonio Aragón Renuncio:
Nos es grato comunicarle que una de sus fotografías ha sido seleccionada como accésit en el concurso fotográfico FOTO NIKON 2015.
Reciba nuestra más sincera enhorabuena ya que su obra formará parte del libro FOTO NIKON 2015 que recopilará los trabajos de los 4 fotógrafos ganadores y los 72 accésits de las cuatro categorías.
Una vez que se publique dicho libro a finales de Mayo, recibirá un ejemplar en la dirección postal que nos indicó en la inscripción del concurso.
Aprovechamos esta ocasión para felicitarle una vez más y darle las gracias por participar y apoyar este proyecto.
Reciba un cordial saludo,
FOTO NIKON
Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2015
Una nueva nominación. Finalista en el Felix Schoeller Photo Award.
The International Felix Schoeller Photo Award for professional photographers is entering the final stage. The jury chaired by Michael Dannenmann has shortlisted 143 entries, from a total of 1,250 from 65 different countries, and subsequently determined the five nominees per category from these works and will select the prizewinners. A category winner will be chosen for each of the five categories. The winners in the individual categories and the overall winner of the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2015 will be announced on 27.9.2015 in the course of the award ceremony and opening of the exhibition titled ‘Winners and nominees of the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2015’ at the Museum of Cultural History in the city of Osnabrück.
POY Latam 2015
Un nuevo premio. Esta vez ha sido el Pictures of the Year 2015 (POY Latam) en la categoría de Deportes Individual.
Del lunes 11 al viernes 15 de mayo de 2015, se realizó el juzgamiento del POY Latam 2015 en San Miguel de Allende, México. Los jueces revisaron más de 31.100 fotos y 168 multimedias presentados por 1300 fotógrafos de casi todos los países de Iberoamérica. El POY Latam fue un éxito total gracias a la extraordinaria calidad de los trabajos envíados y a la dedicación del jurado. Más de 70.000 personas se conectaron al streaming y fueron testigos del juzgamiento del concurso.
Un nuevo galardón, esta vez una FIAP Honour Mention en la categoría de Photojournalim Series en la II International Digital Biennial Photojournalism 2015 organizado por Aphotoreporter. El trabajo merecedor de este galardón es el titulado «Sorcière» que muestra la dura realidad de las mujeres que son expulsadas de su aldea bajo la creencia de ser brujas. Este trabajo realizado en Burkina Faso durante el año 2014 y que está aún por terminar está realizado en blanco y negro.
FCF Silver Medal, en el I Concurs Memorial Pere Formiguera organizado por la Federación catalana de Fotografía. La fotografía merecedora de este galardón es la titulado «Paraíso II» que muestra a niños jugando con unos neumáticos en una aldea de Togo (Africa Occidental)
