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| The Venezuelan Photographer Rolando Schemidt |
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| Credit: Rolando Schemidt |
By: Agencies |
Feb 14th, 18.- an image by the Venezuelan photographer Rolando Schemidt portraying the accidental burning of an oppositionist protester during the riots in Caracas is one of the six main nominated pictures for the World Press Photo 2018, EFE Agency announced.
The picture captures the moment when 28-yr old José Víctor Salazar, runs wrapped in flames after having been reached by a squirt of gasoline from a bike of a Bolivarian National Guard. The bike had been captured and burned by the protesters with a molotov cocktail.
The young man turned into a human torch and wearing a mask runs looking for help to turn off the fire from his body. At the bottom of the picture a grafitti with the word "Peace" appears written with black spray.
"It's not easy taking a picture like this", Lars Boerig, Director of World Press Photo said to Efe. The merit of this nomination comes
since "The photographer was right there in the right time, and captured the moment in a very powerful way".
"It has a lot of energy, movement and dramatism. Yet, it's also very well composed. It says a lot about what is happening right now in Venezuela, were violence is total with protests every time, everywhere", the President of the jury, Magdalena Herrera, said.
Shemidt's image is one of the six nominees for the category Picture of the Year of a contest organized by the Foundation World Press Photo. It's jury received this year more than 73,000 pictures. The other nominees collect moments on the attack to Westminster in March 2017 and the picture of a little girl victim of the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria. Also, the drama of the Rohingya refugees in Myanmar and the libreation of Mosul of the Islamic State by the Iraqi Forces.
These two last issues were the most covered by the media. However, the jury also received many images of other protests in Venezuela and the United States.
These two last issues were the most covered by the media. However, the jury also received many images of other protests in Venezuela and the United States.
On the other hand, the Spanish photographer Javier Arcenillas received a nomination in the category Long Term for several pictures taken between years 2010 and 2017 giving testimony of the fight against drugtrafficking in Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia.
In the category Sports Stories, the Colombian-American Juan Arredondo was nominated for a series of black and white that portrays La Paz Soccer Club, a Colombian team formed by former members of the FARC and victims f the armed conflict in the Colombian jungle.
"The sports can get together the people, and make them compete one another but from the respect", Boring said. Arredondo's work was "one of the few that covered the moments after the Colombian conflict", Boring said.
Another series nominated in the same category was "The Kids and the Bulls", by Nikolai Linares. It portrays the daily routine of a Spanish bullfighting school in Almería.
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