He photographer from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Christian Torres Chávez, got the Pulitzer Prize for photography.
Christian Torres Chávez won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of shots taken of migrants in their attempts to cross the border from Mexico to the United States.
Torres Chavez works as an AP correspondent (Associated Press) and documented with his Photographs the attempts they make every day migrants in Ciudad Juárez to cross to El Paso Texas.
The Pulitzer for photography was awarded to the AP staff who have documented the attempt of migrants from several Latin American countries to cross into the United States, where one of Christian Chávez’s shots stands out.
The award-winning photograph by the Juárez journalist shows a migrant child who is thrown, apparently by his father, into the arms of another man, to cross a narrow and shallow sector of the Rio Grande, in the area of El Paso, Texas.
The Pulitzer International Journalism Prize was awarded to the photographer from Juarez in the photography category, “as part of a series by the photography staff of the international agency The Associated Press (AP),” as announced.
Christian Torres Chávez is also part of the team at the Norte Digital internet portal and his photographs of migrants have been highlighted by other local, national and international media, with his work in the AP being what earned him the distinction.
The Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza She was also awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her moving work “The Invincible Summer of Liliana.”
Published by Hogarth Books and Random House, the novel is a heartbreaking account of the femicide of her sister, which occurred in 1990. This book is not only an exceptional piece of literature but also a powerful act of memory and denunciation.
J.C.S.
