Portimonense João Porfírio wins Estação Imagem 2019 News Award

Report, published in Observador, started when the fire was at the gates of the village of Monchique

Portimonian photojournalist João Porfírio was the winner in the News category of 2019 Image Station Award, with the work “The Image of Terror has Sound”, a report on the fires in Monchique, in 2018, which consumed 27 hectares and left 41 injured.

This article by João Porfírio, published in Observer, newspaper of which he is photo editor, started when the fire was at the gates of the village of Monchique and threatened the center of it. Many were the people who lost all their possessions and when the fire seemed to be more controlled, the strong winds would come to threaten more houses and animals. Dozens of houses were totally destroyed and hundreds of animals lost their lives in the force of the flames.

Leonel de Castro, photojournalist for Jornal de Notícias (JN), won the image station award 2019 Coimbra, with a work on the social role of informal caregivers, entitled “Souls”, announced today the organization, in Coimbra.

Leonel de Castro, who has been a member of JN since 1997, also won the “Photography of the Year” award for his work “Mulher Berbére”, about “the few rights and many duties” of Muslim women in Morocco.

Photojournalists Óscar Corral and Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro received honorable mentions for “Transfer” (about the rescue of migrants on the high seas) and “Esperança e Crença” (about an Indonesian Muslim emigrant who lives and works in precarious conditions in Macau), respectively.

The Europa Prize was awarded to photojournalist Rui M. Oliveira, for his work “Romeiros”, about dozens of devotees who “travel 300 km over a week, praying and visiting places of religious worship on the island” of São Miguel, Azores .

Rodrigo Cabrita was awarded an honorable mention in the “Contemporary Subjects” category for a work he followed for a month with patients at the Portuguese Oncology Institute.

Another mention was made to “Bazar de Órgãos”, by Gonçalo Fonseca, about illegal organ transplants.

Arlindo Camacho was distinguished in the “Everyday Life” category, with a work about a trip around the world of an Azorean family.
A report during Holy Week in the Spanish city of Zamora earned Octávio Passos the distinction in the “Arts and Shows” category.

Mário Cruz, an award-winning photojournalist from Agência Lusa, won the “Environment” award for his report “Living among what is left behind”, on the Pasig River, in the Philippines, one of the twenty most polluted in the world.

A work with the São Tomé community in the Torre neighborhood, in Camarate, on the outskirts of Lisbon, earned Ricardo Lopes the “Série de Retratos” award, while the honorable mention in this category went to Tono Arias, on the traditions of Galician Entrudo.

The Nazaré Canyon, an underwater canyon off the coast of Nazaré, which attracts giant wave surfers from all over the world, earned Octávio Passos the “Sport” award.

In this category, the honorable mention was given to Eduardo Leal, who photographed Muay Thai matches in a ring in Thailand.

Finally, the Estação Imagem Coimbra 2019 grant was awarded to Ana Brígida, who presented a proposal for a report on communities with few inhabitants and eco-villages in the district of Coimbra.

The jury was composed of Stéphane Arnaud, editor-in-chief of AFP International Photography, Darrin Zammit Lupi, a Reuters contributing photographer since 1997, George Steinmetz, photographer working for National Geographic and Geo, and Michael Kamber, director of the Bronx Documentary Center.

O festival season image started on Tuesday, in Coimbra, with nine exhibitions, one of which brings together the work of several photojournalists around the passage of Cyclone Idai, in Mozambique. This exhibition also features photographs by João Porfírio and can be seen until 21 June.

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