Tag: Tomas Munita

World Press Photo 2017: The Best News Images | Time.com

Here Are the World Press Photo’s Best News Images

The jury selected these images as the best in photojournalism

via Time: http://time.com/4668156/world-press-photo-2017-news/

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.

February 13, 2017
Dominic Nahr and Tomás Munita: A Photographic Perspective on Fukushima

Link: Dominic Nahr and Tomás Munita: A Photographic Perspective on Fukushima « The Leica Camera

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.

April 10, 2014
Tomás Munita: 2013 Recipient of the Chris Hondros Fund Award

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Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time

via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/05/15/tomas-munita-2013-recipient-of-the-chris-hondros-fund-prize/#1

Shared human experience.

That was the driving force behind photojournalist Chris Hondros’ work

May 15, 2013
Tomás Munita Wins Chris Hondros Fund Award

Honoring a Fallen Photographer’s Spirit

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.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/honoring-a-fallen-photographers-spirit/

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.

May 15, 2013
The Work of Chilean Photographer Tomás Munita

Losing Fear and Learning to See

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.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/losing-fear-learning-to-see/

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.

September 26, 2012