CHILE
Tomas Munita
Tomás Munita (Chile, 1975) is a documentary freelance photographer with a primary interest on social and environmental issues. He has been a regular contributor for The New York Times covering news internationaly during 13 years, and has worked for several other leading magazines like National Geographic, Geo, Time, Stern, New York Times Magazine, Der Spiegel and others.
He has won several awards, including 4 World Press Photo, Leica’s Oskar Barnack, Henri Nannen, Visa D’or Daily News, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, All Roads, Latin American Photographer of the Year (PoyLatam), 2nd Photographer of the Year (POYi), Chris Hondros, Overseas Press Award, ICP Young Photographer Award and Rodrigo Rojas award.
He is based in southern Chile.
PROJECT
Rohingya humanitarian crisis
In 2017, the Rohingya ethnic minority became victims of genocide and were expelled from their lands in Myanmar by the army and their Buddhist neighbors, who until that point had lived alongside them. Within a few days, violence erupted against an entire ethnic group, feared and hated for being Muslim. Their belongings were stolen, and they were systematically and impunitively murdered and raped. A mass exodus ensued towards the relative safety of Bangladesh, where they arrived destitute at what quickly became the largest refugee camp in the world, where they remain to this day.
