Javier Arcenillas

Humanist. Freelance photographer, member of Gea Photovords. He develops humanitarian essays where the main characters are integrated in societies that borders and sets upon any reason or human right in a world that becomes increasingly more and more indifferent. He is a psychologist at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has won several international prizes, including The Arts Press Award, Kodak Young Photographer, European Social Fund Grant, Euro Press of Fujifilm, INJUVE, Foto Press Third Prize, Luis Valtueña of Médicos del Mundo, Journalism Doñana’s prize, Make History, UNICEF, World Photography of the Year, Fotoevidence, POYI and Finalist of the Leica Prize 2009. For his work with Médicos del Mundo about the Rubbish Cities in Central America, he has been a finalist for the Ojo del Pez Prize and his book “City Hope” summarizes his five years working on it. Alongside a photographic essay about charity in India tittled “Kingdom Charity”. His reports abroad can be found in some outstanding publications such as Time, Der Spiegel, Stern, Guatemala’s newspaper or Miami Herald Magazine. Recently he has published “ WELCOME” a book about the camp of refugees in Myanmar‘s Rohingya in Kutupalong, aided Médicos sin Fronteras and worked on an article about ship breakers in Asia, “ShipBreakers”. Currently he is carrying out new ideas in parallel with traditional journalism to spread his projects and he is making up Audiovisual Projects with diplomatic work.

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