Shield Wall

Single, 1st place

Soldiers and policemen with sticks and shields detained hundreds of Honduran migrants who made up the Migrant Caravan in January 2021. The soldiers detained them in Vado Hondo, Chiquimula a few kilometers from the border between Guatemala and Honduras. The migrants were trying to cross Guatemala to reach the United States. Most members of the caravan left their country after storms ETA and IOTA devastated their communities.

Esteban Biba

Guatemala

Guatemalan photojournalist active for the past 14 years, his work has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and El País in Spain. He has worked for some of the most important print media in his country and is currently a staff photographer for EFE international agency and a contributor for European Pressphoto Agency (EPA). In recent years he has covered human migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) to the United States and put on an exhibition on the subject together with the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations. In Guatemala, he has followed and documented the cultural and religious traditions of ethnic groups throughout the country. His work has led him to photograph high risk events such as storms, floods, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters.

Shield Wall

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