The photographic coverage of the crisis in Haiti by the EFE Agency photographer Orlando Barría appears as one of the nominees for this year’s Gabo Award, along with other works on migration, the environment, politics and other conflicts in the world.
The Gabo Foundation published this Friday the long list of the 10 nominees for the most important Ibero-American and Portuguese award for journalism in each of the five categories (Photography, Audio, Text, Image and Coverage), which will be awarded during the Gabo Festival that will be held in Bogotá between October 21 and 23.
NEW CATEGORIES
Barría shares a nomination in the new Photography category with Spanish photographers Ricardo García Vilanova and Santi Palacios, who published, respectively, a photographic chronicle in Jot Down Magazine about the last days of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh and the coverage of the massacre of civilians hands of Russian troops in Bucha (Ukraine), published in 5W Magazine.
Also selected in the same category were the works by the Peruvian Musuk Nolte for Vist Projects on the Repsol oil spill on the coast of Lima, the project on the outfits worn by the disappeared in Mexico by Fred Ramos and Óscar López published in The New York Times and the cattle expansion in the Amazon published by Victor Moriyama in that same newspaper.
Also from Ukraine, in that category, the work of the Argentine Rodrigo Abd in Crisis Magazine of the first weeks of the Russian invasion, the document of the abuse of power and racism in the Dominican Republic made by Matias Delacroix and Danica Coto for AP; of the wall between Mexico and the US made by Alejandro Cegarra for Pie de Página, and about an indigenous community in Tierra del Fuego made by Marcio Pimenta for Folha de Sao Paulo.
In the other new category of this edition, the audio category, the Gabo Foundation selected a work on the past of Jair Bolsonaro from a group of journalists including Juliana Dal Piva and Juliana Carpanez for UOL; a story of resistance by women in Mexico for Perro Azul-La Corriente del Golfo; the story of a young punk musician made for Nicolás Maggi for Erre Podcast or the case of a woman convicted of abortion in El Salvador broadcast on the Chilean Las Raras Podcast.
There are three Spanish audio stories nominated as well: that of "The papers" on the Bárcenas corruption case, broadcast on El País-True Story; "The two deaths of Javier Ardines"about the murder of this councilor, published in El Correo by José Ángel Esteban, and about the Antiterrorist Liberation Groups (GAL) in Spain, by Antonio Rubio for Podimo.
Lastly, in the audio category, works by "To Republic of Militias" of Radio Novelo; "Lost City: Monsignor Romero’s funeral"in Alharaca-Antifaz, and "Habitat" in the Folha de Sao Paolo.
IMAGE, COVERAGE AND TEXT
Migration, environment and the relationship between crime and power stand out in the Text category where the works were nominated: "Death of a friend in Brooklyn: "Only the people who consumed with him knew it""published by Argemino Barro in El Confidencial de España; "Unaccompanied minors, the invisible victims of the Venezuelan exodus in Norte de Santander"by Rafael David Sulbarán in "The opinion" from Columbia, and "The fireflies go out: the environmental disaster in Tlaxcala"by Diana Amador in Gatopardo Magazine from Mexico.
A story about Nelson Rauda’s Salvadoran soccer team from "The lighthouse" from El Salvador was also selected in that category, along with "The difficult relationship between gangs and companies in Haiti"written by Alberto Arce for AP or the story of the lost submarine ARA San Juan by Juan Manuel Mannarino in Revista Gatopardo.
And finally on the environmental crisis of Pablo Escobar’s hippos in Colombia by Diana María Pachón in Mongabay Latam, "The Stowaway and the Captain" Ricardo Robins in Argentina Rosario3; "Threatened: The last isolated tribes of Brazil"by Naiara Galarraga and Avener Prado for El País and "A hidden iFood propaganda machine" by Clarissa Levy for Agência Pública.
In Image, which includes video and audiovisual works, a multimedia investigation on the business behind the port of Tribugá, in the Colombian Pacific, published in Baudó and La Liga contra el Silencio; a work on migration through the Darién in El Colombiano, and a report on the Ukrainian town of Andriivka published in Observador de Portugal.
Also in this category were selected the works of "OR Case Prevent Senior" published on TV Globo in Brazil; "SAS tears" on the use of tear gas in the Colombian magazine Cambio; "Juquery-Place Fora do Mondo" from Globonews in Brazil; "Gender: female" on sexist violence from the Folha de Sao Paolo; "Between rivers; silences, memories"published in Colombia; "the other way" of Canal Capital in Colombia, and an investigation on "The murder of Lucas Villas" in the protests in Colombia published in various media.
Finally, in the Coverage category, works on lobbies and fundamentalist strategies against the rights agenda in Latin America published jointly in La Silla Vacía, Agencia Pública, Ojo Público, PopLab and elDiarioAr were selected; on corruption in Brazil under Bolsonaro in Jornal O Estado de Sao Paolo; a special on the Hogar Seguro fire in Guatemala by Agencia Ocote, and on the MS13, the largest mafia in Central America, by Insight Crime.
Also "Mining Secrets" carried out by 65 journalists from 20 media outlets on environmental scandals in Guatemala; "The Amazon, punished and on the brink of the abyss" by Joshua Howat for AFP; "Fragments of disappearance" of Fifth Element Lab in Mexico; a collaborative investigation showing public spending on non-lethal weapons in political repression, "The business of repression"; "Sneaky Runner" Armando.info and El País América, and "Breast cancer in Venezuela" published in Prodavinci.
The winners of the prize will win a sculpture of Gabriel García Márquez by Antonio Caro, a diploma and 35 million Colombian pesos (7,750 dollars).
