OF SATURDAY 15/10 ON SUNDAY 6/11
F. CHIRIVELLA SORIANO. Valeriola, 13
It's the first time, in the 67 years of history World Press Photo, that a photograph in which no person appears is awarded. What is portrayed in the World Press Photo of the Year snapshot are wooden crosses dressed that make visible the more than 4.000 indigenous students who were taken, many times by force, to boarding schools built by Canada during the 19th century with the aim of modeling them following the canons of Western and Christian culture. Joe Sacco told it in the comic A Tribute to Earth In the year 2020 and Pope Francis asked for forgiveness for the excesses of the Catholic Church in the country this summer. The photo in question was signed by The New York Times Amber Bracken, the fifth woman to win this contest, the most prestigious in world graphic journalism, cuya décima edición en Valencia incluye este 2022 a short tour of what these ten years of photojournalism in the world have been like: the wars in Syria and Afghanistan, the arab springs, climate change, migratory movements… Focusing on this edition of the WPP, which includes the most relevant world events of 2021 (second year of pandemic), images of the consequences of covid take center stage, about the strategic fires that the Nawarddeken indigenous people in Australia set to protect their habitat or about the many threats that raise fears for the health of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. S.M.
