Photo:
Madhav Mehra

Pep Bonet (Mallorca, 1974) studied photography in 1997 in Amsterdam. Since that time he has participated in several workshop and seminars (e.g. World Press Photo Masterclass 2002) and worked on different assingments and projects as a freelance photographer. Since 2000 he exhibits regularly world wide. Since 2001 Pep Bonet has won several renowed international awards and prizes, among them: Kodak Young Photographer’s of the year Award 2003 at Visa Pour L’image (with the project Faith in Chaos from Sierra Leone), Zilveren Camera Holland (2003 - first prize in international documentary, third prize in sports category), First prize at the biannual photojournalism award Fotopres 03 (Fundació La Caixa) Spain.

In 2004 he was the winner of the Miran Hrovatin International award for the best Journalistic photograph. Fondazione Luchetta, Italy, Trieste. He has also won the Scherpenzeel award for Photojournalism, with the essay Aids in Ethiopia, as well as being selected American Photo Editor’s Choice 2004 emerging artist of the year.

In 2005 Pep won the Eugene Smith Humanistic Grant in Photography.

During the last four years his work has focused on Africa and the pursuit of several long term projects, Faith in Chaos about post-war Sierra Leone, and Posithiv+ documenting the issues of hiv/aids in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is currently working on a photographic project in Somalia. He photographs most of Africa on assignment for MSF.

His work can be seen at www.pepbonet.com