F. CHIRIVELLA SORIANO. Valeriola, 13
The image Winner of World Press Photo this year the heart shrinks, as almost always, with a heartbreaking theme that is experienced on the other side of the Atlantic, on the border between Mexico and the United States, but also a few kilometers away, in that gravedigger Mediterranean that separates Europe from Africa. The migration. Crying girl on the border, John Moore, immortalizes the desperate cry of the Honduran girl Enough Sánchez as US officers take his mother into custody at the Texas border. Enough and his mother does not they suffered the US policy of separating immigrant families implemented by Donald Trump, But images like these helped the Democratic Party and public opinion to cry out against these practices and the ignominious president had to back down.. The photograph shows an officer wearing latex gloves frisking a mother who, no laces on shoes, rests his hands against the patrol car. We don't see the faces of these women, but yes, Yanela's, standing, paralyzed, between his mother and the car, cries without consolation.
As a novelty, this year the foundation World Press Photo has incorporated the Story of the Year award for photographic series that tell a story, y it is has recagone again about a snapshot that talks about migration to the United States. Pieter Ten's migrant caravan Hope documents the column of more than 7.000 migrants, mainly Hondurans, on his journey to the United States. As we see, Migration has emerged this year as the undisputed protagonist of the most prestigious photojournalism contest in the world, but the thematic range is wide and varied: Jamal's disappearance Khashoggi (current news), Ireland's anti-abortion laws (contemporary stories), human waste (environment), the wild pumas of Patagonia (nature), falleras (portraits), a boxer fight Claressa Shields (sport)…You can see all this and much more in this exhibition key within the international photography circuit that travels every year to one hundred cities and 45 countries and that this 2019 arrives at the Chirivella Soriano Foundation in October (until now we could see it in February), his house in Valencia, to fascinate us with static images that capture the most beautiful, exciting and terrifying of our planet. S.M.
