¡Tenemos ganador de PhotoAquae 2021!
Esta séptima edición del concurso que busca la mejor fotografía del agua del año, que ha contado en esta ocasión con la colaboración del Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), ha estado marcada no solo por el éxito de participación, con más de 1.500 imágenes, sino también por la gran calidad técnica y artística de cada una de las fotografías recibidas.
En esta edición de 2021 hemos contado con un jurado de renombre compuesto por Alfredo Cáliz y Sofía Moro, dos fotógrafos profesionales de reclamo internacional; David Calle, creador de la plataforma educativa online Unicoos; Ángeles Puerta, directora de la Fundación Aquae; y por parte del colaborador de esta edición, Ania Andersch.
Ser capaz de captar un instante en el que el agua sea protagonista es el único requisito para este concurso de fotografía. Por ello, y tras valorar cada una de las imágenes recibidas, el jurado ha determinado que la ganadora de esta séptima edición sea Magdalena Pellitero por su fotografía “En busca del Agua”.
«La fotografía ganadora es naturalista, documental, de corte clásico. Cuenta con el elemento de abstracción que aporta el blanco y negro, pero su autora no trata de enfatizar el momento, lo recoge sin artificio” señalaba durante la gran final el fotógrafo Alfredo Cáliz. Una imagen realizada en Sudán del Sur el pasado año por esta enfermera de profesión para quien la fotografía se ha convertido en su gran pasión.
Magdalena logra los 1.000€ de premio que otorga este galardón. «Estoy profundamente agradecida por este premio y ojalá esta fotografía sirva para remover alguna conciencia entorno al importante valor del agua” expresaba la Pellitero.
Además de la ganadora, el jurado seleccionó dos imágenes finalistas. La Mención especial del Jurado ha sido para la imagen “Los caminos del agua” de Valentín Vadillo , médico jubilado y aficionado a la fotografía geográfica.
El jurado seleccionó está imagen por la gran armonía que refleja el hombre con la naturaleza. “Es una fotografía que escapa al momento, que retrata el esfuerzo de la humanidad, la soledad de las personas y el agua” argumentaban los miembros del jurado.
Y es que esta evocadora imagen fue realizada en la isla de Socotra (Yemen), una zona del océano índico donde la mayor parte de sus habitantes son pescadores que, cada mañana, caminan sobre la laguna para recoger o tender sus redes.
Fundación Aquae se enorgullece de que dos de las imágenes más valoradas de esta edición de PhotoAquae 2021 hayan corrido a cargo de sanitarios. Un sector que, desde hace ya un año, lucha en primera línea contra la expansión de la pandemia mundial provocada por la Covid-19 que sacude el mundo.
El segundo finalista es la fotografía titulada “El pescador y su paraíso” de Arturo López Illana , profesional de la fotografía de viajes que recorre el mundo siempre con su cámara para lograr inmortalizar momentos tan bucólicos como el de este pescador.
Gracias un año más a todos los participantes por formar parte de esta edición que nos ha hecho batir todos nuestros récords de participación y calidad. Y gracias a cada uno de vosotros por demostrar una gran sensibilidad para retratar de más de 1.500 formas diferentes la importancia y el valor de un recurso tan valioso para la vida como es el agua.
Desde Aquae con la convocatoria de este premio queremos despertar la conciencia social sobre la importancia de gestionar correctamente un bien tan preciado como es el agua. PhotoAquae es una de las iniciativas y actividades que realizamos con motivo de la celebración del Día Mundial del Agua.
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Single-use plastics, the food of the future
SERGI ESCRIBANO
As humans we ingest 2,000 microparticles of plastic, approximately 5 grams of plastic every week: the equivalent of a bank card. With every load of clothes we wash, 700,000 plastic fibers are released into the marine environment.
The impact of our life model is unsustainable and is quickly killing us; in few generations nothing will matter.
We must change our life style immediately. The most effective recycling is that of not generating any waste, consuming local products and developing greater awareness that our actions create a brutal impact on nature and by default, on ourselves.
The European Union has agreed to prohibit single-use plastic (excluding plastic bottles) as of 2021. Such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton swabs, with exceptions for medical or scientific use.
Single-use plastics, the food of the future
SERGI ESCRIBANO
As humans we ingest 2,000 microparticles of plastic, approximately 5 grams of plastic every week: the equivalent of a bank card. With every load of clothes we wash, 700,000 plastic fibers are released into the marine environment.
The impact of our life model is unsustainable and is quickly killing us; in few generations nothing will matter.
We must change our life style immediately. The most effective recycling is that of not generating any waste, consuming local products and developing greater awareness that our actions create a brutal impact on nature and by default, on ourselves.
The European Union has agreed to prohibit single-use plastic (excluding plastic bottles) as of 2021. Such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton swabs, with exceptions for medical or scientific use.
Sea of Plastic
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APURE (VENEZUELA) ,Vista aerea de lancha surcando el cao Manamo en el Delta del Orinoco,Venezuela
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Vista de una de las imágenes de la exposición "Entre humo y la bruna. Sigfrido Koch Bengoechea" que reúne 96 fotografías inéditas tomadas durante la Guerra Civil española y 55 imágenes del álbum "País Vasco: Guipúzcoa" y se puede visitar desde este miércoles en el Museo San Telmo de San Sebastián
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Cielos parcialmente nubosos con aumento de la nubosidad desde el mediodía
San Sebastián, 17 feb (EFE).- Los cielos amanecerán este jueves parcialmente nubosos en el País Vasco, con predominio de las nubes medias y altas, aunque a partir del mediodía la nubosidad aumentará para dejarlos nubosos o muy nubosos con algunas precipitaciones débiles que remitirán por la noche junto con la nubosidad
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A group of children play happily in a river produced by heavy rains near Mandouri (Togo, West Africa).
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A group of children drinks brackish water from an artisanal well on Afidegnigba beach (Togo, West Africa). 85% of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet. In Africa, 300 million people lack access to clean water in at least fourteen countries in the continent that suffers permanent deficit. 115 Africans die every hour related to poor sanitation, contaminated water or poor hygiene conditions.
Every year, unsafe water, coupled with a lack of basic sanitation, kills at least 1.6 million children under the age of five years around the planet.
To make this situation worse, sea levels on the coast of Togo continues rising and gobbling up everything in its path. Punished by global warming, rising sea levels are forcing the ocean bed to readjust by removing sediments from the coast and dragging them away from shore affecting more than 8,000 kilometers of coastline in 13 West African countries. This causes marine erosion capable of devouring dozens of meters of mainland each year.
Due this problem, thousands of people (mainly women and children) have already had forced to leave their houses and migrate inland in search of food, shelter and fresh water... The only way to try to prevent their certain death… Many thousands more await their inexorable future. That new rising tide that takes everything away.
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Un nio, en mitad del desierto del Sahara, aprovecha para refrescarse el agua que cae de un tanque de agua en uno de los pozos artificiales esparcidos por el desierto para los pastores nmadas. La importancia del agua en esos lugares es vital.
Un nio celebra la llegada de las lluvias despus de la temporada seca en el este de Senegal. El agua tan esperada es clave para l asubsistencia de sus cultivos y ganado Los bassari mantienen vivas sus tradiciones y costumbres ms antiguas, por lo que la UNESCO lo ha declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 2012 por su paisaje cultural.
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Un nio se refresca en la poca ms calurosa del ao en Bangladesh: el monzn. Subdarbans, Bangladesh.
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HAITI. Centre. Ville Bonheur. July 2004.
Men, women and children of all ages met at the waterfall of Saut d’Eau where the bathing ritual has the aim of purifying and cleaning the body.
Voodoo is the dominant religion in Haiti. It was originated in African tribes, it arrived into the New World through slaves and nowadays it is closely linked to Catholicism.
Every year thousands of Haitian pilgrims, belonging to all social classes, make a religious journey from all around the country and even abroad to Ville Bonheur and the nearby Saut d’Eau waterfall, placed 60 km North of Port-au-Prince.
It is believed that about 150 years ago the spirit of Virgin Mary appeared on a palm tree close to the waterfall and begun to heal the sick, among others miracles. Since then this is a sacred place inhabited by voodoo Gods and visited by believers who want to be purified inside its waters and ask them for favours.
HAITI. Centre. Ville Bonheur. July 2004.
General view of the waterfall of Saud d’Eau. Finding husband or wife, having a good job, healing illnesses or keeping away bad luck are some of the wishes that this fabulous waterfall can provide.
Voodoo is the dominant religion in Haiti. It was originated in African tribes, it arrived into the New World through slaves and nowadays it is closely linked to Catholicism.
Every year thousands of Haitian pilgrims, belonging to all social classes, make a religious journey from all around the country and even abroad to Ville Bonheur and the nearby Saut d’Eau waterfall, placed 60 km North of Port-au-Prince.
It is believed that about 150 years ago the spirit of Virgin Mary appeared on a palm tree close to the waterfall and begun to heal the sick, among others miracles. Since then this is a sacred place inhabited by voodoo Gods and visited by believers who want to be purified inside its waters and ask them for favours.
HAITI. Centre. Ville Bonheur. July 2004.
Some young people being purified with a bath under the waterfall. According to the popular legend in 1847 Erzulie, the voodoo Goddess of beauty and love, appeared at this place.
Voodoo is the dominant religion in Haiti. It was originated in African tribes, it arrived into the New World through slaves and nowadays it is closely linked to Catholicism.
Every year thousands of Haitian pilgrims, belonging to all social classes, make a religious journey from all around the country and even abroad to Ville Bonheur and the nearby Saut d’Eau waterfall, placed 60 km North of Port-au-Prince.
It is believed that about 150 years ago the spirit of Virgin Mary appeared on a palm tree close to the waterfall and begun to heal the sick, among others miracles. Since then this is a sacred place inhabited by voodoo Gods and visited by believers who want to be purified inside its waters and ask them for favours.
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Single-use plastics, the food of the future
SERGI ESCRIBANO
As humans we ingest 2,000 microparticles of plastic, approximately 5 grams of plastic every week: the equivalent of a bank card. With every load of clothes we wash, 700,000 plastic fibers are released into the marine environment.
The impact of our life model is unsustainable and is quickly killing us; in few generations nothing will matter.
We must change our life style immediately. The most effective recycling is that of not generating any waste, consuming local products and developing greater awareness that our actions create a brutal impact on nature and by default, on ourselves.
The European Union has agreed to prohibit single-use plastic (excluding plastic bottles) as of 2021. Such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton swabs, with exceptions for medical or scientific use.
Single-use plastics, the food of the future
SERGI ESCRIBANO
As humans we ingest 2,000 microparticles of plastic, approximately 5 grams of plastic every week: the equivalent of a bank card. With every load of clothes we wash, 700,000 plastic fibers are released into the marine environment.
The impact of our life model is unsustainable and is quickly killing us; in few generations nothing will matter.
We must change our life style immediately. The most effective recycling is that of not generating any waste, consuming local products and developing greater awareness that our actions create a brutal impact on nature and by default, on ourselves.
The European Union has agreed to prohibit single-use plastic (excluding plastic bottles) as of 2021. Such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton swabs, with exceptions for medical or scientific use.
Sea of Plastic
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labrador en arrozales de la Albufera, Valencia
en La Albufera, término de Albal (Valencia)
contaminación urbanistica, agricultor arrocero en su plantación
APURE (VENEZUELA) ,Vista aerea de lancha surcando el cao Manamo en el Delta del Orinoco,Venezuela
Photo by Carlos Hernandez /Caribe Focus
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Vista de una de las imágenes de la exposición "Entre humo y la bruna. Sigfrido Koch Bengoechea" que reúne 96 fotografías inéditas tomadas durante la Guerra Civil española y 55 imágenes del álbum "País Vasco: Guipúzcoa" y se puede visitar desde este miércoles en el Museo San Telmo de San Sebastián
SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES
Cielos parcialmente nubosos con aumento de la nubosidad desde el mediodía
San Sebastián, 17 feb (EFE).- Los cielos amanecerán este jueves parcialmente nubosos en el País Vasco, con predominio de las nubes medias y altas, aunque a partir del mediodía la nubosidad aumentará para dejarlos nubosos o muy nubosos con algunas precipitaciones débiles que remitirán por la noche junto con la nubosidad
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A group of children play happily in a river produced by heavy rains near Mandouri (Togo, West Africa).
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Excursion to Cerro Tronador
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A group of children drinks brackish water from an artisanal well on Afidegnigba beach (Togo, West Africa). 85% of the world population lives in the driest half of the planet. In Africa, 300 million people lack access to clean water in at least fourteen countries in the continent that suffers permanent deficit. 115 Africans die every hour related to poor sanitation, contaminated water or poor hygiene conditions.
Every year, unsafe water, coupled with a lack of basic sanitation, kills at least 1.6 million children under the age of five years around the planet.
To make this situation worse, sea levels on the coast of Togo continues rising and gobbling up everything in its path. Punished by global warming, rising sea levels are forcing the ocean bed to readjust by removing sediments from the coast and dragging them away from shore affecting more than 8,000 kilometers of coastline in 13 West African countries. This causes marine erosion capable of devouring dozens of meters of mainland each year.
Due this problem, thousands of people (mainly women and children) have already had forced to leave their houses and migrate inland in search of food, shelter and fresh water... The only way to try to prevent their certain death… Many thousands more await their inexorable future. That new rising tide that takes everything away.
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