About Samuel Aranda
Born 1979. Samuel Aranda is a Spanish photographer.
Samuel Aranda (born 1979) is a Spanish photojournalist, best known for winning World Press Photo of the Year 2012.
Early life Aranda was born in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain. His winning picture shows a woman embracing her son, wounded during clashes against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a, Yemen, part of the Arab Spring.
In 2014 he documented the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leona and Liberia for The New York Times.
In 2016 he received the Ortega y Gasset award for his photographs on the migration crisis in Greece.
During the next years he developed personal projects in Mali and Egypt, and received a grant from the BBVA foundation for a project to document the Nile.
He photographed the COVID pandemic in Spain for The New York Times.
Since 2023 he lives in Paris, and is a member of the British agency Panos.
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Spanish photojournalist
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Samuel Aranda was born in 1979 in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona.
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Samuel Aranda is a photographer.
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