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  1. 2008

    Contest facts
    • Year 2008
    • Photographer Pep Bonet
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Noor for Positive Lives
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 25-05-2008
    • Country Honduras
    • Place San Pedro Sula
    • Caption Raul Coto is an occasional sex worker. He uses the name 'Gladis', and knows he is HIV positive. San Pedro Sula is the second largest city in Honduras and has one of the highest instances of HIV in the country. Transsexual sex workers are particularly vulnerable to infection. Conservative family and religious values mean that gays and transsexuals are often victims of rejection and violence.

  3. 2007

    Contest facts
    • Year 2007
    • Photographer Emilio Morenatti
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 22-05-2007
    • Place Gaza City, Gaza Strip
    • Caption Two rockets are launched towards Israel. The Israeli army reported that seven missiles were fired by Palestinian militants that day, lightly wounding two people. Israel responded with four air raids, targeting suspected arms caches and Hamas militant bases. Palestinian officials said seven people were wounded in the raids. A week earlier, Israel had resumed air strikes in Gaza after a six-month lull in response to Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli towns. In June the Palestinian government proposed a ceasefire.
    • Year 2007
    • Photographer Miguel Riopa
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category Sports Features
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-04-2007
    • Country Spain
    • Place Valencia
    • Caption A member of the crew of the Victory Challenge collects the sail after a match in the Louis Vuitton Cup. The event is used as a preliminary to one of the world's most prestigious yacht races, the America's Cup - a one-to-one contest between the current holder of the trophy and the winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup.
    • Year 2007
    • Photographer Lorena Ros
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Panos Pictures
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 2005
    • Country Spain
    • Place Barcelona
    • Caption Sara (21) was six when she complained that someone close to the family was interfering with her, but it wasn't until she was ten that she was heard. The last available study, conducted in 1994, indicated that 23 percent of girls and 15 percent of boys under the age of 17 in Spain had been sexually abused. Most abused children will never speak of their experience. As an adult survivor, Sara believes that disclosing her personal story will contribute to the prevention of future child sex abuse.
    • Year 2007
    • Photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 2006
    • Country Venezuela
    • Caption A María Lionza priest liberates evil spirits so they can be buried in the earth. The folk religion of María Lionza has one of the largest followings of any sect in Venezuela. The cult is a blend of African, indigenous and Roman Catholic beliefs, and is popular across all strata of society. María Lionza is revered as a goddess of nature, love, peace and harmony, and followers believe she still lives on Montana de Sorte together with many important spirits. Devotees travel to the mountain to pay homage to her and commune with the spirit world.

  8. 2006

    Contest facts
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Arturo Rodríguez
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-09-2006
    • Country Spain
    • Place Tenerife
    • Caption African immigrants wait on the quayside in the port of Los Abrigos. They will be transferred to a police station, and later to a holding center from where they will either be repatriated or sent on to the mainland. Spanish officials estimated that more than 31,000 people reached the Atlantic islands illegally during the year, a fivefold increase on 2005.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Moises Saman
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Newsweek
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 13-02-2006
    • Country Haiti
    • Place Port-au-Prince
    • Caption René Préval supporters celebrate near the Presidential Palace as unofficial word of his victory spreads. Haitians went to the polls in February, for the first elections since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in 2004. The elections passed relatively calmly, though some violence erupted over a long delay in announcing results, and after early reports indicated that favorite René Préval had not reached the 50% of poll needed to prevent a March run-off. Later it was declared that Préval, a former ally of President Aristide, had indeed won with 51.15% of votes.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Arturo Rodríguez
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 03-08-2006
    • Country Spain
    • Place Tenerife
    • Caption Tourists, security forces, and Red Cross workers attend to African migrants who have landed on La Tejita beach. Tens of thousands of migrants arrived in 2006, in small wooden boats with up to 150 people on board. They faced a sea journey of some 1,000km, and many arrived starving, dehydrated, or died on the way. Some migrants are repatriated, others are sent to mainland Spain, but many end up in limbo, unable to gain work papers yet unwilling to go home.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Pep Bonet
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Panos Pictures
    • Category Sports Feature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-08-2006
    • Country Sierra Leone
    • Place Freetown
    • Caption As Sierra Leone rebuilds itself following a ten-year-long civil war, members of the Single Leg Amputee Sports Club aim to play against other international teams, and make a living from their sport. Most of the 22 members of the club had limbs cut off by rebel forces during the war. In February 2007 the club - which had already competed in matches in Britain, Russia, and Brazil - hosted the first ever All-African Amputee Football Tournament.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Daniel Beltrá
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Zuma Press for Greenpeace
    • Category Contemporary Issues
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 03-03-2006
    • Country Brazil
    • Place Belterra, Brazilian Amazon
    • Caption A tree stands isolated in a soybean field on the edge of rainforest. Soy farming has overtaken cattle ranching and logging as a destroyer of rainforest. Soy is used widely in animal feed for high-density farming, as well as for human consumption. Locally, soy farming provided a source of income in what was an economically depressed area.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer José Cendón
    • Nationality Spain
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 14-03-2006
    • Country Burundi
    • Place Bujumbura
    • Caption In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Kamenge psychiatric center is the only one in the country that treats people with war trauma, is financed by the church, though patients contribute money for medicines and food.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Moises Saman
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Newsday
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 31-10-2004
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Pansjer Valley
    • Caption An Afghan coal miner washes up after a shift in a mine. Coal remains a major source of energy in Afghanistan. Five years after the American-led invasion to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan, efforts to reform the judiciary, towards religious freedom, and towards relaxing strictures on women were still underway. Life for most Afghans revolved around rebuilding the war-ravaged state.

  16. 2005

    Contest facts
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Benito Pajares
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication El Mundo / Sahara Marathon
    • Category Sports Action stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 27-05-2005
    • Country Algeria
    • Place Tindouf
    • Caption Spectators await the arrival of runners during the Sahara Marathon beneath a Sahrawi flag. The marathon is an international sports event organized to show support and raise funds for the Sahrawi people. The Sahrawis have been living in refugee camps in southwestern Algeria for 30 years, following post-colonial conflict in the region. The marathon has been run annually since 2000 along a route between three of the camps, and attracts hundreds of participants from all over the world. In addition to a standard-distance marathon there are shorter races and one for children. Runners sometimes have to battle against sandstorms of up to 120km per hour, and at times cannot easily see where they are going.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Daniel Beltrá
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Greenpeace
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 27-10-2005
    • Country Brazil
    • Place Amazon
    • Caption A riverboat stranded east of Manaus. The Amazon region experienced its worst drought in many decades. Low water levels stranded river-life and boats. Those communities who relied on river transport were isolated and had to depend on airlifts for supplies. Greenpeace blamed the drought on global warming and deforestation, claiming that forest burning had raised temperatures and prevented cloud formation. Brazilian government meteorologists said the dry weather had been caused by unusually high temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and also linked it to the year's devastating hurricanes.

  19. 2004

    Contest facts
    • Year 2004
    • Photographer Juan Medina
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Reuters
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 12-11-2004
    • Country Spain
    • Place Fuerteventura
    • Caption Would-be immigrants from Africa are rescued from the sea, after their makeshift boat had capsized. The boat, carrying 36 people, overturned during an operation by Spanish civil guards in November. Seven of the immigrants were lost, but the remainder were saved. Authorities in the Canary Islands had already detained over 5,500 illegal immigrants that year. The majority were deported almost immediately.
    • Year 2004
    • Photographer Isabel Muñoz
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu for El Pais Semanal
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-05-2004
    • Country Ethiopia
    • Caption The Suri are a semi-nomadic people who live in a mountainous region of Ethiopia, near the Sudan border. The men generally go naked, and both sexes shave their heads -sometimes leaving patterned strips of hair- and decorate their bodies. The Suri cover their skin with chalk and make designs with their fingernails, or paint on their bodies using sticks and colored vegetable pigments. The body art is a means of aesthetic expression, but is also important in attracting the opposite sex and intimidating opponents.

  22. 2003

    Contest facts
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Moises Saman
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Newsday
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 22-03-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Baghdad
    • Caption An Iraqi man suffering from severe burns recuperates in the Al-Yarmuk Teaching Hospital, two days after the onset of US bombing of the city in March. Immediately after the first attacks, the Iraqi Ministry of Information took all foreign journalists present in Baghdad on a tour of several hospitals in the city in order to demonstrate casualties, claiming that only civilian targets had been hit. The ministry set the toll at over 200 injured. Reports of a shortage of supplies and medical staff followed.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Lorena Ros
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Fotopress La Caixa for Elle
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-08-2002
    • Country Nigeria
    • Place Benin City
    • Caption Two young women about be trafficked wait for a juju ritual to be performed on them. Thousands of Nigerian women are trafficked to Europe every year and forced to work in the sex industry. Having entered countries illegally, they are pushed to the periphery of society and have little access to social care. They remain in financial debt to their traffickers, and are also controlled by juju, a voodoo ritual whereby an oath of loyalty is pledged between a god, the trafficker and the woman.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Raúl Belinchón
    • Nationality Spain
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-07-2002
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place London
    • Caption European metro stations.

  26. 2002

    Contest facts
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Fernando Moleres
    • Nationality Spain
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-08-2002
    • Country USA
    • Place Black Rock Desert, Nevada
    • Caption A record 29,000 people from 20 different countries attended the annual Burning Man festival. Billed as a week-long celebration of art, counterculture and radical self-expression, the festival began in 1986 in San Francisco, but in 1990 moved to its present location. It culminates with the ceremonial torching of a gigantic wooden statue of a man.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Matias Costa
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu / Grazia Neri
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-06-2002
    • Country Spain
    • Place Madrid
    • Caption A premature baby, born after six months of pregnancy, is treated in an incubator at the Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Carlos Spottorno
    • Nationality Spain
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-12-2002
    • Country Spain
    • Place Malpica
    • Caption An oil-spill volunteer assists in a clean-up operation. Some weeks earlier, the Bahamas-registered tanker Prestige, carrying 70,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, had begun to break up in bad weather, 250km off the coast. The Prestige was towed out to sea after both Spanish and Portuguese governments refused permission for the ship to enter their ports. At first, oil spillage was minimal, as most compartments remained intact. But six days later the tanker broke in half, its bow and stern sinking within hours of each other and releasing an oil slick nearly 200m wide and 30km long. The slick washed ashore within days, damaging a coast that was not only rich in wildlife, but along which whole communities depended on fishing for their livelihoods. Clean-up work was conducted largely by volunteers. Environmentalists accused the Spanish authorities of a slow response to the disaster.

  30. 2001

    Contest facts
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Dominic Ridley & Lorena Ros
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Cosmos / Still Pictures
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-04-2001
    • Country Spain
    • Place Tarifa
    • Caption A group of sub-Saharan Africans come ashore. More than 50 people had crammed into a dangerously overloaded rubber boat to travel the frequently-used route between North Africa and Spain. Each year, hundreds of bodies of those attempting the crossing are washed up on the Spanish coast.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Fernando Marcos Ibanez
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Compañia Nacional de Danza
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 15-11-2001
    • Country Spain
    • Place Madrid
    • Caption Bathed in light, Emmanuelle Bronein rehearses 'White Darkness' at the Teatro de la Zarzuela. The dance piece, choreographed by Nacho Duato, was presented by Compañía Nacional de Danza.

  33. 2000

    Contest facts
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Matias Costa
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-06-1999
    • Country Morocco
    • Caption An immigrant observes Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar. An estimated 500,000 people entered the European Union illegally in 2000. The short passage from Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar to the Spanish coast was a frequently used route. Small, overladen open boats often sunk during the crossing; hundreds of people drowned in this way. Immigrants who relied on illicit traffickers had to pay up to US $3,000 to be smuggled in to Spain, often crowded into the backs of trucks. Spain tightened its immigration laws during the year. The authorities revealed that in two years they had arrested 70,000 illegal foreigners, but some estimates are that three quarters of the people who reach Spain are not detained.

  35. 1999

    Contest facts
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Isabel Muñoz
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country China
    • Place Henan province
    • Caption At the Shaolin temple men practice a particular form of wushu, war art. The 18 basic positions of what some call Shaolin Kung Fu are inspired by the movement and agility of animals. According to legend, over 1,500 years ago, the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma introduced Indian principles of meditation and yogic calisthenics to the Shaolin monks' own tradition, to help them endure the physical demands of long periods of meditation. Over the centuries, the men of the Shaolin temple added skills from different martial arts to Bodhidharma's original system, and became renowned as warrior-monks.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Enric F. Martí
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 18-08-1999
    • Country Turkey
    • Place Izmit
    • Caption A firefighting plane sheds its load over the Tupras Oil refinery. The refinery had been on fire since an earthquake hit the area early the day before. Firefighters could not pump water to fight the blaze, because the quake had knocked out electricity to the region. The earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the Richter scale, claimed more than 17,000 lives and made hundreds of thousands homeless. It was not only a humanitarian disaster, but had a severe impact on the Turkish economy, as the affected area formed the industrial heart of the country.

  38. 1998

    Contest facts
    • Year 1998
    • Photographer Faustino Soriano
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Bilderberg / Aurora Photos for Paris Match
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1998
    • Country Spain
    • Place Barcelona
    • Caption Barcelona gains a new museum in 1998 - a Musee Imaginaire, where all the exhibits are fakes. A week before the official opening the staff is still very much involved in hanging the art.

  40. 1997

    Contest facts
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Fernando Moleres
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Rapho
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country El Salvador
    • Place San Salvador
    • Caption Fernando (12) scrapes some cash together by directing the traffic and entertaining drivers with his fire-eating antics. Estimates from the International Labor Organization indicate that in 1997 250 million children - five times as many as 1992 - were involved in child labor all over the world.

  42. 1996

    Contest facts
    • Year 1996
    • Photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images for Médicos Sin Fronteras
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1996
    • Country Georgia
    • Caption In search of the national identity of the Caucasian republic: A nation emerges after years of political and economic upheaval.

  44. 1994

    Contest facts
    • Year 1994
    • Photographer Jorge Torres
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Mercury Press International
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1994
    • Country Spain
    • Place Valencia
    • Caption Ballet dancer Sara Casabella, during rehearsal. www.jorgeltorres.com www.mercurypress.com
    • Year 1994
    • Photographer Cipriano Pastrano Delgado
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication ABC - Blanco y Negro
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1994
    • Country Spain
    • Place Madrid
    • Caption With their razor-sharp incisors rats can tackle any prey without losing a morsel. The human population of a modern city is outnumbered three to one by rats. Underneath the city streets they move around their own dark, humid labyrinth of sewers, cellars, pipes and air ducts.

  47. 1993

    Contest facts
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Ricardo Dávila Wood
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Cover
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country Cuba
    • Caption In the last three years, more than 12,000 children and some 1,700 adults from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have traveled to Cuba to receive treatment for diseases resulting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. At a hospital in a seaside resort some 250 doctors and nurses work at the former summer camp, where the patients are treated free of charge. Most of them suffer from leukemia, other blood disorders and various types of cancer. They stay at the hospital, surrounded by parks and sandy beaches, for eight weeks to two years.

  49. 1992

    Contest facts
    • Year 1992
    • Photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu for Life
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1992
    • Country Spain
    • Place Valencia
    • Caption Valencia celebrates the arrival of spring with the Las Fallas festival. On March 18 flowers are offered to the Virgin Mary, and the following day is dedicated to San José. In the afternoon of the 19th the city center explodes in a riot of noise and smoke in all colors of the rainbow. The festival reaches its climax after dark, with firework displays and a gigantic bonfire in which the 'fallas', cardboard figures such as these lifelike horses, go up in smoke. Only the most beautiful figure is kept for posterity.

  51. 1990

    Contest facts
    • Year 1990
    • Photographer Nelson Souto
    • Nationality Spain
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1990
    • Country France
    • Place Paris
    • Caption Paris, the city of light. Arche de la Fraternité.

  53. 1983

    Contest facts
    • Year 1983
    • Photographer Manuel Hernandez de Leon
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agencia EFE
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1983
    • Country Spain
    • Place Madrid
    • Caption Perico Fernandez leaps for joy after winning the Spanish middleweight title by knock-out.
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