Honorable Mention
The worst day of a father
DESCRIPTION
Dmytro Kubata, 13-year-old boy senselessly killed as Putin's thugs shelled a bus stop in Eastern Ukraine, near a mosque in a non-military area. Teenager's grief-stricken father VYACHESLAV KUBATA, kneeling beside his body and holding his hand. Dmytro was waiting at a bus stop with his sister Ksenia, 15, when Russian missiles struck the shelter in Ukraine's second-biggest city, Kharkiv on Wednesday. Now in hospital seriously wounded and fighting for her life, while Dmytro died from his injuries at the scene. Their bereft father Vyacheslav knelt for two hours by his son's body, reading him prayers AUTHOR
Héctor Adolfo Quintanar Pérez (1990)Degree in archeology from the Universidad Veracruzana (2013). Master in Anthropology from the Universidad Veracruzana (2016) Mexico. Teacher of the Popular Autonomous University of Veracruz and teacher at the College of Bachilleres "Colegio Las Hayas". Co-director of the archaeological project "Restoration of the ball game in the archaeological zone of Yohualichan" and participation in archaeological projects such as Panama Viejo in the city of Panama (2012) and archaeological project Refinería del Pacífico and archaeological rescue "Ruta Viva" in Ecuador. (2013). In the autumnal season of 2017, he also became involved in a cultural rescue project of the old trades in the city of Quito, Ecuador. Where he made a photographic and documentary survey of all those old trades that are about to disappear by the new commercial dynamics and modernity of the current daily life in the Andean country Founding member of the collective "Etnofotografía" where traditions and cultural expressions are recorded for their anthropological study and cultural promotion.
He has been the winner of the "Photography for Peace" contest and selected in the International Photographic Competition: "Los trabajos y los días", Currently he is an independent collaborator of digital news media and a teacher in educational institutions.