Roar to Life after 50 years
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Photographer
Arturo Rodriguez
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Jury Top 5 Selection
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Date of Photograph
late 2021
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Website
The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma has occasionally twitched, convulsed, and rumbled, but no lava has emerged since 1971. That changed on september 19 at 3:12 p.m. local time, rising magma tore open several fissures on its western flanks, and an extravagant eruption began.
The final balance is 85 days of eruption, 7000 people displaced from their homes, 1345 homes razed by lava flow, hundreds more buried by volcanic ash, more than 12 millions square meters of land destroyed, 74 km of roads destroyed and 370 hectares of crops devastated.
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Biography
Canary Islands, 1977. I began stringing with EFE, Spain's national news agency. After that I began to work with several newspapers, Reuters and The Associated Press where I was their official Canary Islands photographer during 3 years and then I move to Madrid where I spent 3 years more working for AP and then I decide move to Southeast Asia where I spent almost 5 years working as a freelance. Now I'm freelance based on Canary Island and working on south Europe and north Africa stories as a freelance.
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Awards
2007 I was awarded two prizes in the World Press Photo in the categories Spot News, single and People in news, reportage.
2011 Special Honorable Mention in CIDPA Canada
2011 YIPPA
2011 The World Wide Photography Gala Award.
2013 Shortlisted Prix Lucas Dolega War photography.
2014 UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador of the World Biosphere of La Palma, Canary Island.
2015 Honorable Mention Lightrocket photo contest (Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand)
2015 First place, single VI Canary Islands Documentary and Press Photography Contest.
2017 First place, single and first place stories in VII Canary Islands Documentary and Press Photography Contest.
2018 Spain X-Photographer by Fujifilm.
2020 third place Spain Foto Rural.
2021 two honorable mentions on photojournalism and portrait in Monochrome Photography Awards
2021 two honorable mentions portrait in Chromatic Photography Awards
2021 finalist Fine Art Photography Awards
2021 Grant National Geographic Covid-19 Emergency Funds for Journalist
2022 Award of Exelence on POYi
2022 First place on Science Stories Best of Photojournalism NPPA
2022 Finalist on Big Picture Competition Human/Nature category
