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BIO

Andres Kudacki is a photographer, born in Argentina. He is based in Stockholm since 2019 after living in New York, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, and began working with the Associated Press in 2008. His work has appeared in many world-renowned publications such as New York Magazine, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Corriere della Sera, Global and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, Paris Match Financial Times, The Telegraph, Politiken and Le Monde, among others.

In 2014, Picture of the Year International (POYI) awarded him third place for an Issue Reporting Picture Story for his work on Spain’s housing crisis. He was also given an Istanbul Photo Award second place for a News Story, First Finalist of Luis Valtuena award, four Atlanta Seminar awards for a second place in Features and a third place for Sport Story in 2014 and first place for Sport story and Honorable mention in Features story in 2015, an Honorable mention in NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism Awards 2014, a Pictorical Second place in st Of Photojournalism Awards 2016, a Second place for Economic Story in the China International Press Photo Contest 2016 (CHIPP), finalist of the National Association of Iconographers awards, First Place at ANI National Association of Iconographers Pixpalace Award, ANIGP “Enrique Meneses” Award News Story First Prize and Spanish National Photojournalism Award 2015, Second prize, a third place for Road to Office story and honorable mention for Road to Office singles in NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism Awards 2017. In 2018, Istanbul Photo Awards awarded him second place on Nature & Environment category for his work on Puerto Rico and and NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism Awards awarded him with a Third place in the News Picture Story category in the US, Third Place on International Features and an Honorable Mention on News category for US.
.In 2017 Picture of the Year Latam (POYLatam) awarded him as a top three Photographers of the Year at Pictures of the Year POY LATAM contest and receiving 4 awards: Photographer of the year Third Place, First place and Honorable mention in Traditions and Religion stories and Honorable Mention at News stories.
.“This portfolio was a great surprise. I value the author’s capacity to be in public and private spaces and his refined irony always with respect and dignity helping us to understand and to question what we see. These amazing black and white, is one of my favorites”
Silvia Omedes Comité d´Impúls del Plà Nacional per la Fotografía del Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya
“His visual signature is recognizable, very recognizable, no just recognizable but he also plays with the contents using his way and he got this irony, this hidden smile that appears visually. he sails very comfortable in between complex public spaces and private spaces and he delivers in the same way. He is someone who got the capacity to link to others and to know where to place himself and generate a very solid informal visual structure. For me is 1 or 2.”
Roberto Huarcaya (Photographer)
“There is a lot of ideas and lot of thoughts of in his photos.
He has humor in different circumstances …there are not many photographers who got sense of humor and he is one of them. He understand what he photograph and got humor.”
Sylvie Rebbot (Former director at Geo)

“We saw a lot of photograph of this subject but this is a really good variety of situations, I think individually most of them are very very strong images…is a very successful group of photos”
Kent Kobersteen (Former director at National Geographic)

September 20

Photo: Andres Kudacki.

Manhattan.

A shoeshine man polishes a client’s shoe late at night at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, New York, 2017.