The Princess of Asturias Awards 2024 close the resolution of this year’s categories with that of Concordia, which this year has recognized the work of Magnum Photos. This agency, founded in 1947, is a collective of committed photographers with documenting events, people, places, daily life and culture around the world. The work of the agency has been and is essential in the history of visual culture of the second half of the 20th century. His work constitutes the graphic memory of the modern world, constantly appearing in The New York Times, Le Monde, Le Figaro, The Sunday, The Guardian and Corriere della Sera or the magazines Paris Match, National Geographic, Fortune, Life and Geo.

Its creator, known as Robert Capafounded this cooperative so that its members had complete independence. The objective was to retain the copyright on their works and market them. The presidency of the agency is in the hands of the Spanish Christina of Middel. It has headquarters in Paris, New York and London, and a network of collaborating agents. Beyond its photographic work, the agency has created scholarships for photographers and began a collaboration with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with which an international team of photographers traveled to nine countries to document the effects of antiretroviral treatments on AIDS patients. The result was ‘Access to Life‘, a traveling exhibition inaugurated in 2008 in Washington and that could be seen in Madrid, Oslo, Rome and Oakland.

Throughout its history, this category has fallen to political figures, such as Adolfo Suárez, or institutions such as the European Union. It has also been used to reward various NGOs or a specific sector of society, such as the health workers who responded to COVID-19. Its objective has always been the same: to reward the work of defense and generalization of human rights, the promotion and protection of peace, freedom, solidarity, world heritage and, in general, the progress of humanity.

From this area, Magnum Photos a list of names of the 2024 awardswhich have awarded researchers Daniel J. Drucker, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Joel F. Habener, Jens Juul Holst and Svetlana Mojsov in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. Also to the former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff (Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences 2024). Previously, the entity revealed that Joan Manuel Serrat, Marjane Satrapi and Carolina Marin They were also going to receive the sculpture by Joan Miróa diploma, a badge and a cash prize of 50,000 euros thus becoming another of this year’s winners.

The other Princess of Asturias Concord Awards

  • 2023: Mary’s Meals
  • 2022: Shigeru Ban
  • 2021: Jose Andres
  • 2020: Spanish health professionals in direct contact with patients affected by COVID-19
  • 2019: Polish city of Gdansk
  • 2018: Sylvia A. Earle
  • 2017: European Union
  • 2016: SOS Children’s Villages
  • 2015: Hospital Order of Saint John of God
  • 2014: Caddy Adzuba
  • 2013: ONCE
  • 2012: Spanish Federation of Food Banks
  • 2011: Heroes of Fukushima
  • 2010: United Hands
  • 2009: Berlin, on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • 2008: Ingrid Betancourt
  • 2007: Jerusalem Holocaust Museum
  • 2006: UNICEF
  • 2005: Daughters of Charity
  • 2004: Santiago’s road
  • 2003: J.K. Rowling
  • 2002: Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said
  • 2001: World Network of Biosphere Reserves
  • 2000: Royal Spanish Academy and the American Academies
  • 1999: Cáritas Española
  • 1998: Nicolás Castellanos, Vicente Ferrer, Joaquín Sanz Gadea and Muhammad Yunus
  • 1997: Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich
  • nineteen ninety six: Adolfo Suárez González
  • nineteen ninety five: Hussein I of Jordan
  • 1994: National Movement of Meninos e Meninas de Rua, Messengers of Peace and Save the Children
  • 1993: Gesture for Peace Coordinator of Euskal Herria
  • 1992: American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
  • 1991: Doctors Without Borders and Medicus Mundi
  • 1990: Sephardic Communities
  • 1989: Stephen Hawking
  • 1988: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and the World Wildlife Fund
  • 1987: Villa El Salvador
  • 1986: The Vicariate of Solidarity