Series description
Between 2012 and 2022 the number of large wildfires in Spain, where 500 hectares or more have been burned, has increased by more than 10 percent compared to the previous decade. Devouring everything in their path, these are extreme events that are impossible for firefighting teams to deal with. The scientific community links them directly to climate change and qualifies them as sixth generation fires. The risk is great, with catastrophic damage to the landscape, the economy and the lives of the population. This series of aerial images shows the consequences of the forest fires in Spain in the summer of 2022.
Biography
Brais Lorenzo is a photojournalist born in Ourense, Galicia (1986). He studied photography and Geography and History. He regularly collaborates with the EFE agency and with the newspaper Faro de Vigo.
Awarded with POYi Daily Life singles, Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award, News Photo Awards, Siena International Photo Awards, Estaçao Imagem, 2nd Sony World Photography Awards Portfolio Category, 2nd prize POY Latam Daily Life singles or Third place NPPA – Best of Photojournalism 2020 – Contemporary Issues, among others.
Burned Landscape
View of the burned area in the fire that devastated more than 10,500 hectares in the region of Valdeorras, Galicia, northwestern Spain. This fire is considered the most significant in the history of the province of Ourense and the second in Galicia.
© Brais Lorenzo Couto, Spain, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Burned Landscape
The burned area in the fire that devastated more than 10,500 hectares in the region of Valdeorras, Galicia, northwestern Spain. This fire is considered the most important in the history of the province of Ourense and the second in Galicia.
© Brais Lorenzo Couto, Spain, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Burned Landscape
The burned area in the fire that devastated more than 10,500 hectares in the region of Valdeorras, Galicia, northwestern Spain. This fire is considered the most important in the history of the province of Ourense and the second in Galicia.
© Brais Lorenzo Couto, Spain, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Burned Landscape
The burned area in the fire that devastated more than 10,500 hectares in the region of Valdeorras, Galicia, northwestern Spain. This fire is considered the most important in the history of the province of Ourense and the second in Galicia.
© Brais Lorenzo Couto, Spain, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Burned Landscape
A house sits in a burned landscape near the village of San Cibrao, Oímbra, in north west Spain, after a forest fire devastated 2,100 hectares.
© Brais Lorenzo Couto, Spain, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
Burned Landscape
A view of the cemetery in the town of Otero de Bodas in Zamora. In 2022, the region experienced one of the most devastating forest fires in the history of Spain, when 28,046 hectares burned in Sierra de la Culebra.
© Brais Lorenzo Couto, Spain, Shortlist, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards