Iván Macías, el único mexicano nominado al World Press Photo Award 2021 tvazteca.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tvazteca.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘This was the place where we would all go drinking. In the days after, people arrived from all over Lebanon with brushes and cleaned up, street by street
Living in conflict zones teaches you about bomb blasts. After spending years in Kabul, I learned how to estimate how far away an explosion is. When a car bomb detonates, you’ll hear the explosion, but you won’t feel the shockwave unless you’re pretty close. But what happened in Beirut on 4 August 2020 was like nothing I had ever experienced. I live in west Beirut, some four kilometres away from the port where thousands of tonnes of ammonium.
Marcus is a
Los Angeles Times staff photographer. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he is interested in the social issues and dichotomies that shape the human experience. At a turning point, he left a career in aerospace engineering to pursue a photographic life. In 2017, Marcus was named Picture of the Year International s Newspaper Photographer of the Year. Yam was part of teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news: for coverage of the San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attacks in 2015 for the Los Angeles Times and the deadly landslide in Oso, Wash., for the
Seattle Times. His previous work has earned an Emmy Award, a World Press Photo Award and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.
By Sara Barnes on February 5, 2021
For over 20 years, Bangladesh photographer GMB Akash has turned his lens towards the marginalized groups of people in his home country. The socially conscious photographer views his chosen field as a powerful opportunity to shine a light on the atrocities that these underserved populations deal with on a daily basis.
One group that Akash documents are child laborers, and he has spent 17 years capturing their plight. Because even with child labor against the law, the reality is that four million kids are suffering in Bangladesh; the problem is essentially ignored. Through his eye-opening and heartbreaking images, Akash has exposed the harsh realities that these children face. His photographs make it impossible to look away while imploring the viewer to do something to help these children.