María Eugenia Cerutti, a photographer for the Clarín (a major newspaper in Buenos Aires), won the photography prize from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (Foundation of New Journalism in Latin America) which Gabriela Garcia Marquez presides over.The highest honor for a photographer in Latin America, this prize honors Cerutti’s work on the photo article entitled “Una empresa eléctrica y mortal” (“A Business Electric and Deadly”). This photo essay showed the effects of a high tension electrical station on the nearby residents of Ezpeleta, who were getting extremely sick. The research took three years to complete and Cerutti says that the prize makes her believe in continuing her hard work as a journalist. Cerutti will journey to Monterrey, Mexico to receive her award.

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