"Estimados membership of Jurado, and Sir señoras:
is my great honor to receive the Premio "Ortega y Gasset" Photography, organized by El Pais newspaper where I posted my photos initiation of Latin America in the eighties and my best work in different conflicts world during the nineties, especially the photographs I took during the siege of Sarajevo.
I want to thank those responsible for Heraldo de Aragon, the Magazine of La Vanguardia and the Cadena Ser and always respect my work as a journalist and allow the protagonists of my stories, human beings so often lost in drains history have a place to mourn and cry.
not want to forget Intermon humanitarian organizations Oxfam, Manos Unidas, and Doctors Without Borders, the company DKV SEGUROS and my editor Leopoldo Blume and unfailing support over the last twelve years and allow the project "Mined Lives" by photography award belongs, has its own life and a long journey that can last decades.
Ladies and gentlemen, although I have only one natural son, Diego Sanchez, I can say that as Martin Luther King, the slain black dreamer 40 years ago, I have four other children also mine victims landmines: the Mozambican Sofia Elface Fumo, which you have known with her daughter Alia in the award-winning image, which concentrates all the pain of the victims, but also the beauty of life and, above all, the relentless struggle for survival and dignity of victims, the Man Sokheurm Cambodian, Bosnian Adis Smajic and small Colombian Mónica Paola Ojeda, who went blind after being the victim of an explosion at age 8.
Yes, they are my four adopted children who have been on the verge of death, I have seen mourn, cry out in pain, grow, love, have children, get to college. I assure you that there is nothing more beautiful in the world than seeing a victim of war to pursue happiness. It is true that war blows our minds and steal our dreams, as they say in the movie "Tales of a Pale Moon" by Kenji Mizoguchi.
is true that weapons circulating in the battlefields are usually produced in developed countries like ours, which was a major exporter of landmines in the past and now devotes little effort to aid victims mines and mine.
is true that all English governments since the beginning of the transition, led by the presidents Adolfo Suarez, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Felipe González, José María Aznar, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, permitted and allowed by English arms sales to countries with internal conflict or war.
is true that in the previous legislature has doubled the sale of English arms while the president had implications for his message against the war and now produce four different types of cluster munitions on the ground whose behavior is similar the anti-personnel mines.
is true that I am shocked every time I meet with English arms in the forgotten battlefields of the Third World, and I am ashamed of my political representatives.
But as Martin Luther King, I want to deny to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt, and like him, I have a dream that finally, a president of a English government has the guts to end the marketing of weapons silent making our country, we like or not an exporter of death.
I want to thank those responsible for Heraldo de Aragon, the Magazine of La Vanguardia and the Cadena Ser and always respect my work as a journalist and allow the protagonists of my stories, human beings so often lost in drains history have a place to mourn and cry.
not want to forget Intermon humanitarian organizations Oxfam, Manos Unidas, and Doctors Without Borders, the company DKV SEGUROS and my editor Leopoldo Blume and unfailing support over the last twelve years and allow the project "Mined Lives" by photography award belongs, has its own life and a long journey that can last decades.
Ladies and gentlemen, although I have only one natural son, Diego Sanchez, I can say that as Martin Luther King, the slain black dreamer 40 years ago, I have four other children also mine victims landmines: the Mozambican Sofia Elface Fumo, which you have known with her daughter Alia in the award-winning image, which concentrates all the pain of the victims, but also the beauty of life and, above all, the relentless struggle for survival and dignity of victims, the Man Sokheurm Cambodian, Bosnian Adis Smajic and small Colombian Mónica Paola Ojeda, who went blind after being the victim of an explosion at age 8.
Yes, they are my four adopted children who have been on the verge of death, I have seen mourn, cry out in pain, grow, love, have children, get to college. I assure you that there is nothing more beautiful in the world than seeing a victim of war to pursue happiness. It is true that war blows our minds and steal our dreams, as they say in the movie "Tales of a Pale Moon" by Kenji Mizoguchi.
is true that weapons circulating in the battlefields are usually produced in developed countries like ours, which was a major exporter of landmines in the past and now devotes little effort to aid victims mines and mine.
is true that all English governments since the beginning of the transition, led by the presidents Adolfo Suarez, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Felipe González, José María Aznar, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, permitted and allowed by English arms sales to countries with internal conflict or war.
is true that in the previous legislature has doubled the sale of English arms while the president had implications for his message against the war and now produce four different types of cluster munitions on the ground whose behavior is similar the anti-personnel mines.
is true that I am shocked every time I meet with English arms in the forgotten battlefields of the Third World, and I am ashamed of my political representatives.
But as Martin Luther King, I want to deny to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt, and like him, I have a dream that finally, a president of a English government has the guts to end the marketing of weapons silent making our country, we like or not an exporter of death.
Thank you. "
Gervasio Sánchez
(photographer i journalist)
7 de maig, 2008
Guanyador Ortega y Gasset Prize (for The Country)
(photographer i journalist)
7 de maig, 2008
Guanyador Ortega y Gasset Prize (for The Country)
"I can not change the wind direction, pero fit the candles to always arrive at my destiny." 
JD
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