Photojournalists are an essential component of news agencies and many of the great events of world history were known at all latitudes by the talent and professionalism of the photographers.
As in the Second Congress, held in Estepona, Spain, in this third congress decided to publicly acknowledge these information workers with a contest that allowed them to spread part of his job.
A qualified jury Alejandro Belvedere, Victor Hugo and Claude Fanchi Bugge, was responsible for defining the winners.
Crisis In category first prize went to the Xinhua news agency and the reporter S. Sadat who showed the time in which a group of protesters clashed with police in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan.
In "Disaster" the award went to Peter Lakatos's Hungarian News Agency who reported the suicide of a man who set himself on fire and jumped from the top of a tower in Budapest.
In the third category, Sports, the award went to Australian Associated Press in the person of its reporter Paul Miller who presented a striking picture of a cycling competition.
The fourth, accounted for Gustavo Cuevas, EFE, who presented a photograph of impactate recorded gored in the Plaza de Las Ventas in the fair of San Isidro, Spain.
