Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award
Maria Clauss
Within the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Doctors of the World and Instituto Cervantes New York present the exhibition of the winners of the last edition of the Luis Valtueña International Award is presented.
Since 1997, Doctors of the World Spain annually organizes the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, dedicated to the memory of Flors Sirera, Luis Valtueña, Manuel Madrazo and Mercedes Navarro, four members of the organization who were killed in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina while participating in humanitarian action projects.
Maria Clauss from Spain has become the first woman winner of the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award for her work "Donde no habite el olvido" (Where oblivion does not dwell), which portrays survivors of reprisals during the Spanish Civil War as a tool to fight against oblivion.
