Clashes between police and activists also marked the Anti-DAPL protests, which saw riot police use rubber bullets, pepper spray and tasers to clear marchers from the Standing Rock site. Amber Bracken’s documentation of the struggle won First Prize in the Stories category. While Tomas Munita’s haunting portrayal of Cuba in mourning for Fidel Castro was another notable series that made this year’s News Shortlist.
Following an earthquake in March 2011, disaster struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power in Japan plant forcing people to leave their homes when the area was declared an exclusion zone. Photographers Dominic Nahr (DN) and Tomás Munita (TM) traveled to the area for a reportage on the current situation there. Below is a sample of an interview with them that appears in the latest issue of LFI.
The Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award, named for a photographer killed in Libya, is given to photographers who not only make strong images but commit to their subjects and colleagues.
Tomás Munita has won the second annual Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award, and Bryan Denton was named a finalist. The award is a memorial to Chris Hondros, who was killed two years ago while photographing in Misurata, Libya.
On a demanding assignment off Peru’s coast, in search of a coveted guano, the reporter Simon Romero couldn’t stomach more than an afternoon. The Chilean photographer Tomás Munita, undaunted, stayed weeks.
I lasted an afternoon on Isla de Asia on that assignment in 2008, nauseated by the guano dust in the air and the smell of ammonia emanating from the deposits. Tomás Munita, the Chilean photographer with whom I was traveling, decided to stay longer, stretching his trip over several days.
