Friday, April 13, 2018

Ronaldo Schemidt Wins World 2018 Press Photo of the Year Award



Ronaldo Schemidt is an AFP photographer living and working in Mexico City. He photographed José Victor Salazar Balza, a 28-year-old activist, during a demonstration against the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime. The photographer captured a rare scene as brief as shocking. On May 3rd, 2017, the photographer follows a small group of protesters in a street in Caracas. The demonstrators managed to take a motorcycle from the police, became a trophy. But the tank of the vehicle explodes. The fire wins Salazar Balza. The 28-year-old was injured in the first and second degree but survived.
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