Those interested in participating in the PHotoFUNIBER'21 International Photography Competition can submit their photograph until March 2. We cashapp database present the professionals who make up the Honorary Jury of this third edition of the competition.
Arturo Bibang is a photographer, born in Equatorial Guinea and currently living in Madrid, Spain. In Madrid, he studied Image at the Luis Buñuel Institute.
He has worked in various print media, with a special interest in editorial portraiture.
He has participated in numerous photography events, such as “Lumieres D'Afrique” in Paris, “Les Recontres Africaines de la Photographie” in Bamako, “Les Recontres Arles Photographie” in Arles, among others.
She has also participated in group exhibitions, including: “Paris Photo” at the Grand Palais in Paris; “The Lost City” at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid; “Mujeres”, a travelling exhibition organised by AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation) and “Exposición de la Francofonía” in Beirut, Lebanon.
She is a Colombian photodocumentarian. She works in the promotion of photography in various initiatives. She is co-founder of the Fundación Fotógrafas Latino-americanas, a platform dedicated to the visibility and promotion of beginning photographers in this region. She also develops collaborative projects with which she has exhibited and published several books, including the most recent, Coronalibro, in Mexico, and Pandemia: Miradas de una Tragedia, in Spain.
She received second place at Poy Latam 2019 in the individual portrait category, with the project Memorias del Silencio.
Rodrigo Cruz is originally from Mexico City. He studied visual arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
As a photographer, he has collaborated with The New York Times in Mexico and Central America. His work has been published in magazines such as National Geographic en Español, National Geographic Traveler, GEO, Maclean's, VICE and Mexico Desconocido, as well as in the newspapers Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and on the news sites CNN and ESPN.
She has worked for non-governmental organizations such as: Marie Stopes International, WaterAid, Internet Society, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, UNHCR, Mission Mexico, Tlachinollan and Atzin.
In 2010, his photos were included in the book Laberinto de Miradas, which was used for documentary photography in Latin America, by the publishing house RM; in the book Descubrimientos 2010 PhotoEspaña, by the publishing house LA FABRICA; and in the book Red Bull Illume Award 2010.
She won third place in the Photo of the Year (POY Latam) competition in the Sports Stories category. She won third place in the Photo of the Year (POY Latam) competition in the Daily Life Multimedia category; she was a finalist in the Anthropographia Award for Human Rights and Photography; she received an honorable mention in the “Global World: Through the Lens of Human Rights,” and she was selected for the XIV Mexico Photography Biennial.
Photographer Wara Vargas grew up with photography thanks to her parents, both visual artists. She studied Social Communication and specialized in journalistic photography at the José Martí Institute of Journalism in Cuba. For the last 17 years she has worked in the media in Bolivia.
For her, telling stories is what has always motivated her and thanks to the people who allowed her to do so, she gained national and international recognition, and exhibited her work in countries such as Germany, the United States, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Italy and Spain. Her photos speak of women and the stories of Bolivia. She loves the mystique of Bolivian rituals and the new images that build new identities.
Today, thanks to a grant from National Geographic, she has been documenting the lives of traditional midwives in Bolivia.
