Firefighters search for the bodies of missing victims after the earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 in Gasol Village, Cugenang, Cianjur, West Java, on Friday, November 25, 2022. The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) recorded a total of 321 people died, the number of refugees to date reached 73,874 people due to the earthquake in Cianjur.

Finalist

Muhammad Zaenuddin
Independent
Indonesia

Born in Jakarta, March 7, 1995. I got to know photography at the end of my semester at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (IISIP) Jakarta. I started my career as a freelance photojournalist for Zuma Press Agency in 2019, and currently working at Katadata.co.id. Interested in environmental issues and social change. He has attended several photography workshops, including the Arkademy Project (2019) and XL Axiata Photojournalist Mentorship (2020). Some of my works have been published and displayed in the exhibition Cerita-cerita Tanah Manusia, Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta (2019), Solo Photo Festival (2019), City Vs Quarantine, Lviv, Ukraine (2020), Projection Night at JIPFest photo festival, Jakarta (2021), and received Honorable Mention in the Climate Change Stories program by the Iklimku environmental initiative (2021). Recipient of the 2022 Indonesian PhotoJournalist Award in the General News Essay Photo category, as well as participating as a showcase at the Jakarta International Photo Festival (JIPFest 2022).

[ SPOT NEWS ] This is a category for single photographs of breaking news or events in which no planning was possible. Each participant is allowed to enter up to 10 images. The images must be taken in 2022.

Judges for Spot News
Jilson Tiu
Uma Bista
Takaaki Iwabu
Parisa Azadi
Nathan Tsui
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