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
Este mes publican mi reportaje «Streets of Blood» en Edge of Humanity Magazine
Barakaldo, meca de la Fotografía
«La Imagen es una Excusa para Conocer las Cosas»
«La gente es más abierta cuando vive en realidades muy duras»
Segundo Premio en el Concurso Internacional de Fotografía «Objetivo África» 2017
PREMIO CATEGORÍA NIÑEZ TRABAJADORA
Obra: Pacayita. Golpes para Sobrevivir (Serie x 5)
Antonio Aragón Renuncio
NICARAGUA
Dear Antonio Aragon,
I’m happy to note you that your project «The Paradise of Forgotten Hearts» took the Fist place in The compromise category of Direct Look/17 photocontest!
The exibition will be held at Sakharov center in Moscow at the end of September.
Congratulations and warm regards,
faithfully yours,
Lena Balakireva
Direct Look photo contest team
Estoy muy contento de anunciar que participo en la exposición «What does peace look like?» en la sede de la UNESCO en Paris (Francia) del próximo 26 de Julio al 30 de Agosto.
38 outstanding photos from the 16883 images submitted to the Alfred Fried Photography Award 2016 are shown.
We thank the participating artists for their support: Daesung Lee, Altaf Qadri, Jaime Travezan & Morgana Vargas Llosa, Boris Register, Chris de Bode, Niki Boon, Sujan Sarkar, Helena Schätzle, Hernan Churba, Georg Worecki, Robin Yong, Fan Li, Sebastian Wahlhuetter, Alain Laboile, Peter Bauza, Darian Weiß, Feng Dawei, Antonio Aragon Renuncio, Leyla Emektar, Ricardo Teles, Kiki Streitberger, Kiki Streitberger, Sudeep Mehta, Angelos Rassias, Thomas Victor, Jan Gott, Thomas Cristofoletti, Alex Naanou, Yana Vasilyeva, Qinghua Wang, Andrey Lomakin, Altaf Qadri, Nathalie Bertrams, Wolf-Peter Steinheisser, Antonio Faccilongo, Chris Grodotzki, Eugenio Grosso, Froi Rivera