- "I suspect, and in general, that among those of us who engage in journalism, photojournalism is not recognized as journalism. It may be that, if you ask, a significant percentage say yes, that it is journalism, but in daily practice you see that it is not true," Gari Garaialde acknowledged, after receiving the prize.
Garaialde welcomed the recognition of photojournalism and reflected on the role of those behind the camera in Basque journalism. In fact, "I know that things haven't changed much and that it's still hard for what we do with the camera, in itself, to be considered as a journalism exercise, but if this is one more step. It can be."
Gari Garaialde does journalism through images, tells stories, stories that are a reflection of society and of the time, and in particular, we have rewarded him for the stories he has told us in recent times: he has brought the condemned to paper on a long migratory journey from his homeland to Europe, and he has narrated, through photographs, his tiredness, despair, hope, support, solidarity, dreams, disorientation.