Global Journeys with Walter Astrada

From France to Russia, India to Indonesia, World Press Photo award-winner Walter Astrada has arrived in Australia. In this special event, he will share his experiences and photographs from his travels, alongside his long-term documentary projects on social issues such as violence against women. His presentation will be followed by a Q&A with Walkley award-winning journalist and UTS lecturer, Helen Vatsikopoulos.

A photojournalist for over 20 years, Astrada has travelled the world for news agencies covering everything from conflict in Africa to the earthquake in Haiti. Fuelled by his desire to experience more of the world, Astrada sought out his own assignment: to travel the globe with his camera, a Royal Enfield motorcycle, and no fixed schedule. Since departing Spain in May 2015, Astrada has visited and documented over twenty-three countries, overcoming mechanical failures and unexpected delays along the way.

Details

Tuesday, 10 October 2017
6.30pm - 8.00pm
Followed by drinks at The Clare Bar

About Walter Astrada

Walter Astrada was born in 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started his career as a staff photographer at the local newspaper, La Nacion. After a formative trip through South America, he joined Associated Press (AP) in Bolivia and later in Argentina, Paraguay, and then the Dominican Republic. Astrada worked as a freelancer for Agence France Presse (AFP) in the Dominican Republic from 2005 to 2006, and was represented and distributed by World Picture News. During 2008 and 2009 he covered Eastern Africa, out of Uganda.

He is currently based in Barcelona, Spain, where he continues to work as a freelancer and on two long-term projects; one about violence against women, and the other—the Under Pressure Project—about people with multiple sclerosis in Europe.

Astrada also gives lectures and workshops, based on his long-term projects as a professional photographer and documentary video maker. He has won a wide range of awards over the years, including three World Press Photo awards, the Bayeux-Calvados award for war correspondents, Photojournalist of the Year, and Best of Show from NPPA-BOP, a PGB Photographer of the Year and Picture of the Year, a PDN Photo Annual first prize, a number of POYi awards, the Alfred I. du Pont Award for Excellence in Broadcast and Digital Journalism, and Alexia Foundation and Getty Editorial grants, among others.