Luis Valtueña
International
Award
Humanitarian
Photography

The Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, founded in 1997 and organized every year by Médicos del Mundo Spain, is dedicated to the memory of Flors, Luis, Manuel, and Mercedes, four of the organization’s aid workers who were killed in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina while they provided humanitarian aid.

Winner and finalists
edition 2023

In the call for the 27th edition, 743 series, 6.618 photographs in total, were received from 96 countries on all five continents.

Winner edition 2023

Siegfried Modola

Inside Myanmar’s Armed Revolution

Italy

Karenni soldiers take shelter inside a drainage ditch as a mortar shell explodes close by during heavy clashes on April 16, 2023, in the village of Daw Nyay Khu, in Kayah (Karenni) State, eastern Myanmar (Burma). Two years after Myanmar plunged into civil war, the country’s military has increasingly taken drastic measures to destroy the uprising–with a heavy toll on the civilian population. In April this year, an airstrike by the junta killed 168 men, women and children. Last year the military struck a school with attack helicopters, killing several children. In the same month, an aerial bombing of a concert killed about 50 people.

First finalist 2023

Adra Pallón

Demothanasia

Spain

Second finalist 2023

Eduardo Soteras

Tigray: Ethiopia’s cascade into chaos

Argentina

Third finalist 2023

Anna Surinyach

Sea of mourning

Barcelona

Jury
edition 2023

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