On the front line: Diego Ibarra Sanchez, at the Amman Image Festival

The Instituto Cervantes in Amman returns to the Amman Image Festival with the exhibition On the front line: Diego Ibarra Sanchez.

Diego Ibarra Sánchez (Zaragoza, 1982) is an Aragonese photojournalist based in Beirut, Lebanon. He is co-founder of the photographers' cooperative MeMo (Memoria en Movimiento) and currently works for Revista 5W, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, NZZ, Al Jazeera and Diari Ara.

Ibarra graduated in Journalism and Photography (2005) and later spent a year in Argentina, thanks to a scholarship from the Aragonese Journalists Association, to continue his training as a photojournalist at the Argentine newspaper "El territorio" and later at "La Nación".

He has worked in Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya, Tanzania, Nepal, Colombia, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Gambia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Iraq, and has received numerous awards, including the New York Times Best Images of 2018.

Diego Ibarra has been photographing countries at war for almost 10 years. His photographic work focuses on documenting the consequences of armed conflict on the population. According to him, he achieves this with time, patience and the desire to listen to the testimonies that people give him.

In recent years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Tanzania, Nepal, Nigeria, Colombia, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, and Iraq, all of which are hot spots of conflict.