Mauricio Bustamante
Germany
EUROPE
Born 1966 in Buenos Aires.Since 1995 he
lives in Hamburg as a freelance photographer.
Among others he worked for “11 Freunde”,
“Spiegel”, “pagina 12”, “Wiener Zeitung”.
Since 2000 he works as editorial photographer
for the Hamburg street paper “Hinz &
Kunzt”.Besides his socially committed coverages
which stand out because of their closeness
to the people pictured.
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Five homeless peoples tents were destroyed under the Kennedy Bridge after a fire. Fortunately no one was injured. The homeless there had recently complained of increasing threats and vacated their camp.
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27 years after his death, the station square at the train station Landwehr was named after Ramazan Avci. The 25-year-old of Turkish origin was killed by neo-Nazi members for his origin.
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Hamburg was one of the more than 1400 cities participating in the illuminate a monument symbol against the death penalty. Participating cities illuminate a local monument, as a symbol to demonstrate against the death penalty.
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A rush to the start of the emergency program in the winter at urban Spaldingstraße in Hamburg, begins. An estimated 120 people queued to get a place to stay in the former office building that provides 160 beds.
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The Wattoluempiade or Mud Olympics took place on the mud flats on the banks of the River Elbe, near Hamburg. Some 500 people took part in disciplines such as mud volleyball, mud handball and 'Tampentrecken', a form of tug-of-war over the river.
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Hamburg fans gather at the public viewing park in Hamburg to watch their team fight it out in the quarterfinals. Germany outplayed Greece with a final score of 4-2.
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A panel of experts selected the photo out of more than 100,000 submissions from 5,200 photographers. Winners in other categories such as “daily life” and “spot news” were also picked and were also displayed at the Hamburg exhibition.
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Thousands have taken to the streets in the German city of Hamburg, in a counter-demonstration to a neo-Nazi march.
