honorable mention
Esteban Biba guatemala
Photo © Esteban Biba
title
Pray
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entry description
The lava from the Pacaya volcano threatened the homes of residents of San Vicente Pacaya for weeks, in a seven-week Via Crucis they prayed to the volcano to stop the lava emanation, with wooden crosses they walked almost to the crater. A woman holds a wooden cross and prays in front of the Pacaya volcano, praying that the lava stops and does not reach her home, on May 5, 2021 in San Vicente Pacaya. During the first days of May, the Pacaya volcano threw rivers of lava that remained a few meters from the homes of dozens of people.about the photographer
Guatemalan photojournalist for 14 years, his work has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and El País in Spain. He has worked for some of the most important written media in his country and is currently a staff photographer for EFE international agency and a contributor for European Pressphoto Agency (EPA). In recent years he has covered human migration of the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) to the United States and made an exhibition on the subject together with the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations. Within Guatemala, he has followed and documented the cultural and religious traditions of ethnic groups throughout the country. His work has led him to photograph high risk events such as storms, floods, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters. In 2016 he covered swimming and badminton in Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. In 2018 he covered the football world cup in Russia.back to gallery
