PRESIDENTIAL VACANCY
Peru saw its greatest political instability in 20 years in mid-November, with three presidents coming into power over the course of little more than a week, resulting in massive protests throughout the country. On 9 November, the Peruvian national congress impeached President Martin Vizcarra. Congress speaker Manuel Merino was installed as interim president on 10 November, and on The 12 and 14 of November a National March occurred throughout Peru, demanding his resignation. In Lima, two people were killed and more than 100 were injured in violent clashes with police.
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Biography
Ernesto Benavides del Solar
Although I work as a stringer photographer at Agence France-Presse, I simultaneously carry out various personal photographic projects. As a freelance photographer I have published in local and international newspapers and magazines as El País (Spain), Le Monde Magazine (France), Gatopardo, Somos (Peru), 6Mois, Le Chasse Mare, and Brandeins (Germany). I am also member of Supayfotos and have participated in the expositions of this Peruvian photodocumentalist collective in 2011 and 2012. 2013 I was a finalist at the POYI awards with the “Wanu” project in the Best Photo Book Category and presented the book at MATE (Mario Testino´s gallery). In 2012, I received the second Place at the POYI Awards in the category News Picture Story, and in 2011 I was one of the winners of National Geographic Magazine’s All Roads Photography Award. In 2010, I received an award from the Inter American Press Association in the photographic essay category. I teach photography courses at two Lima universities since 2010.
