Artista

Narciso Contreras

1975 en Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, México

Datos generales
Sin Algoritmo AI

Premios ganados:

7ème édition du Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme: Libye

Organizaciones con obra:

Fondation Carmignac

Etiquetas:

Fotografía

Enlaces oficiales:

Web

Descripción del Artista

Narciso Contreras is an award winning documentary photographer born in Mexico City in 1975. Since 2010 he has been covering a variety of issues and topics in Southern Asia and the Middle East, leading him to focus his work on the humanitarian cost of conflicts, economics and wars. His work intends to contribute to building our visual memory of the world he testifies. His studies in philosophy, photography and visual anthropology led him to live and study in a monastery in India while photographing religious communities. Since then, Narciso has photographed under reported issues like the ethnic war in Myanmar and the forgotten war in Yemen as well as some of the major current events like the political upheavals in Istanbul, the conflict in Gaza, the military coup in Egypt, the war in Syria and the tribal conflict in Libya. Narciso's work in Syria was awarded with one of the Pulitzer Prizes in ... 2013, and received recognition in Pictures of the Year International. He has contributed to magazines and media outlets around the globe including TIME magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, Paris Match, RT TV, MSNBC News, AP Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, National Geographic, The Sunday Times magazine, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, CNN, Wall Street Journal, LΓÇÖEspresso, Expressen, Knack, dS Standaard, Wirtschafts Woche, among others. He also has contributed to non-governmental organizations like MSF (Doctors Without Borders). He is currently photographing the migrants' crisis in North Africa as part of a long-term project of documentation based on the worldwide conceived phenomenon of a "massive human displacement". He is available for assignments. BACKGROUND EAF, Escuela Activa de Fotografía (Photography Active School) in Mexico City – Professional Photography degree. ENAH, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National University of Anthropology and History) in Mexico City -Visual Anthropology & Feature Photography. UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, in Mexico City - Philosophy degree. LANGUAGES Spanish. English.

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