Czuko Williams
Czuko Williams
Czuko Williams (Madrid, 1971) is a Spanish photojournalist and photographer who works mainly on documentary photography. Also, between 1992 and 2016 he worked as a freelance contributor photojournalist for several News agencies as Kontak, Demotix, Corbis and Getty Images.
Biography[edit]
Czuko Williams.[1] was born in Madrid in 1971. He studied History in Madrid (1992-1997) and he made a Doctorate in History in 2008. Since 1991 he was working as a freelance photojournalist and photographer. His work has been published in several international newspapers as Le Figaro, El Pais, El Mundo, Il Corriere della Sera, BBC News, The Guardian, New York daily News... His main work has been related with war coverages (as former Yugoslavia, Ivory Cost and Ukrainia[2]) and natural and humnitarian crisis. Covering Humanitarian crisis he has worked with the spanish NGO's Medicos del Mundo (Doctors of the World) in post-crisis scenario at Super Typhon Hayan (The Philippines) and Nepal's Earthquake (Nepal). Also, he has covered the Refugees Crisis in the Balkans Route (Greece, Macedonia and Serbia) [3] Since 2016 he works mainly in personal documentary projects as Stars' Hotel[4], about the homeless people crisis and the long-term Project 'Ape Dumma'[5] about the transculturation of the latest ancient tribes around the World[6]
Awards[edit]
Czuko Williams has been nominee or winner of several International Awards on photography.
- Hotel de las Estrellas. Third Prize on XVIII International Prize of Humanitarian Photography Luis Valtueña. (Madrid, Spain) 2015[7]
- Accesit Fotonikon España 2015 (Barcelona, Spain). News Category
- Accesit Fotonikon España 2016 (Barcelona, Spain) News Category
- Accesit Fotonikon España 2017 (Barcelona, Spain) News Category
- Juror’s Choice Award at Praxis Gallery Exhibit Empty Places:abandones spaces. (Minnesota. USA) 2018[8]
- Nominee at Fine Art Photography Awards. Portrait Category (London. UK) 2018[9]
- Nominee at Fine Art Photography Awards. Travel Photography Category (London. UK) 2018[10]
Exhibitions[edit]
- Paisajes. Annalogical Black and white exhibition with the photographer Manolo Guijarro. Centro Cultural de Prádena (Segovia, Spain). Asociación cultural Cueva de los Enebralejos. 1992
- Crisis y contestación social. Julian Besteiro School. UGT. (Madrid, Spain). 2014[11]
- Hotel de las estrellas. XVIII International Prize of Humanitarian Photography Luis Valtueña. (Madrid, Spain). Centro Centro. 2015[12]
- Sin Filtros. Matadero. (Madrid, Spain)[13]
- Camina conmigo. Camino de Santiago (Galicia, Spain) 2017[14]
- Ape Dumma Series. Hellerau Portrait Prize 2018. (Dresde, Germany) 2018
- Ape Dumma Series. Head On Portrait Prize 2018. (Sydney, Australia) 2018
- Ape Dumma. Open Your eyes. Work selected for exhibition at Palais de Congrés du Perpignan (France) during Visa pour l'image 2018.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/20/fotorrelato/1424448802_525615.html
- ↑ http://cadenaser.com/programa/2014/02/14/ser_aventureros/1392337689_850215.html
- ↑ http://www.fronterad.com/index.php?q=ruta-balcanes%E2%80%A6-viaje-a-ninguna-parte-refugiados
- ↑ https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/20/fotorrelato/1424448802_525615.html
- ↑ https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/02/19/planeta_futuro/1519058562_630509.html
- ↑ https://www.dodho.com/ape-dumma-open-your-eyes-czuko-williams/
- ↑ http://www.medicosdelmundo.es/premioluisvaltuena/?p=1629&lang=en
- ↑ https://www.praxisgallery.com/single-post/2018/03/01/Exhibit-Empty-Places-Abandoned-Spaces
- ↑ https://fineartphotoawards.com/winners-gallery/fapa-2017-2018/professional/portrait/hm/6297
- ↑ https://fineartphotoawards.com/winners-gallery/fapa-2017-2018/professional/travel/hm/6398
- ↑ https://www.madridiario.es/noticia/408169/cultura-y-ocio/fotografos-frente-a-la-crisis:-la-rebelion-de-la-calle-en-imagenes.html
- ↑ https://www.madrid-destino.com/prensa/centrocentro-acoge-las-obras-finalistas-del-premio-de-fotografia-humanitaria-luis-valtuena
- ↑ http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/entre-parentesis/entre-parentesis-sin-filtros-desvela-cruda-realidad-refugiados-02-06-16/3623280/
- ↑ https://www.diariosur.es/culturas/201705/09/refugiados-llegan-camino-santiago-20170509230346.html
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