Photographer Andres Kudacki

Photographer Andres Kudacki was born in Argentina in 1974 but has been based in New York since 2015 after living in Spain, Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. He began working with the Associated Press in 2008, and his work has appeared worldwide in publications like Time, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian,  the Los Angeles Times, Corriere della Sera, the Globe and Mail, Wall Street Journal, Paris Match, Financial Times, the Telegraph, Politiken and Le Monde, among many 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; was First Finalist for the Luis Valtuena Award; won four Atlanta Seminar awards, with a second place in features, a third place for a sport story in 2014, a first place for a sport story, and an honorable mention for a features story in 2015; an honorable mention in NPPA's Best of Photojournalism Awards 2014; a pictorial second place in NPPA's Best of Photojournalism Awards 2016; a second place for an economics story in the China International Press Photo Contest 2016 (CHIPP); was a finalist for the National Association of Iconographers Awards; won a first place ANI National Association of Iconographers Pixpalace Award; an ANIGP "Enrique Meneses" Award News Story first prize; and a Spanish National Photojournalism Award 2015, second prize.