The Olivier Rebbot Award 2009 (Two Winners)

Masked gang members brandish their weapons.

Award Date:

2009

Award Name:

The Olivier Rebbot Award

Award Recipient:

Alvaro Ybarra Zavala

Award Recipient Affiliation:

Reportage by Getty Images

Award Honored Work:

"The Gunmen of the Bolivarian Revolution"

Due to the high quality of the entries, the judges chose two Rebbot winners. Alvaro Ybarra Zavala’s evocative images show us the dangerous and murky underworld of political violence in the increasingly polarized nation of Venezuela. Zavala worked hard to gain access to the paramilitary groups allegedly responsible for extrajudicial killings; once his work was complete he left the country ahead of publication because he feared deadly retaliation if he remained in Venezuela.

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