Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award 2024

Médicos del Mundo Spain announces the 28th edition of their open call aimed at recognizing and disseminating the best images that demonstrate social inequities, injustices, human rights abuses, or the situations that either foster or fight them.

Overview

Since 1997, each year, Médicos del Mundo Spain has organized the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award dedicated to the memory of Flors Sirera, Luis Valtueña, Manuel Madrazo, and Mercedes Navarro, four members of the association who were killed in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina while engaged in humanitarian work. With this award, their aim is to provide continuity to the work of all of those who, like them, contributing to building a fairer world. Their commitment and solidarity are values that constitute the essence of this competition.

Practical Info

The submitted images must narrate a story related to one of these topics: health, natural disasters, humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, violation of human rights, armed conflicts, vulnerable groups, refugee and/or migrant populations. Each entrant must submit personal and contact details, a biography, a series of between 5 and 10 photographs, and a description of the project presented, including captions.

One photographer will be granted €6,000. In addition, the winner and the finalists will also have their work published in the catalog and displayed in the collective and itinerant exhibition that Médicos del Mundo Spain shall produce. The organization will cover the travel and lodging for two consecutive nights of the chosen entrants to attend the award ceremony and inauguration of the exhibition.

Médicos del Mundo is committed to widely promoting the chosen images and their authors for at least one year through press releases, meetings with the media, and ad-hoc dissemination materials, among other forms.

About Médicos del Mundo

Médicos del Mundo (Doctors of the World) is an NGO, independent of any political or religious affiliation, that promotes human development by defending every person’s fundamental right to health and a dignified life. The organization is made up of volunteers and staff who join their efforts to achieve universal, fair access to health and denounce violations of this right. In 2019, Médicos del Mundo España worked in 21 countries or territories in Africa, America, Asia and Europe through 109 projects, 67 of which involved development cooperation and 43 of which involved humanitarian aid (emergency relief), directly benefitting nearly three million people. We also carried out 94 projects in Spain, providing care to nearly a further 20,000 people.