PHOTOGRAPHER PEDRO LUIS AJURIAGUERRA SAIZ (MFIAP)

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PHOTOGRAPHER PEDRO LUIS AJURIAGUERRA SAIZ (MFIAP)

PEDRO LUIS AJURIAGUERRA SAIZ (MFIAP)

Introduction

Pedro Luis Saiz Ajuriaguerra (Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, 1974). self-taught photographer, began his career back in 2011 discovering a passion that was unknown, the beginning do little more than encourage their concerns are increasing making try almost all disciplines of photography, highlighting mainly in sports photography, and architectural photography.

In 2024 he was awarded FIAP’s highest distinction, the MFIAP (Master), for his series of macrophotographs.

It has the distinctions MCEF / Plt (Platinum Master of the Spanish Confederation of Photography) JBCEF (Bronze Judge of the Spanish Confederation of Photography) and EFIAP / p (Platinum Excellence of the International Federation of Photographic Art).

ICS Country Representative for Spain and IUP Country Representative for Spain

Hon.FAPAM -Association of Photographic Artists Malaysia Honorary Fellow

Hon.MPIPC -Pharohs International Photographic Club Master Honorable Distinction.

HON.CPE -Campina Photographic Exhibitions Society

He is currently collaborating with magazines such as BAO Bilbao Magazine, Bilbao Tourism, Bilbao Bizkaia Tour Magazine and for different sports promoters such as MGZ Promotions, Euskobox etc

Awards

International Awards

He has participated in numerous International competitions, just over 500 awards in the last years.

Most relevant International Awards

-1st Place Animals, Best Photography Awards 2023-24

-3rd Place APA Awards Series 2024 – American Photographic Artist National – USA

-The Societies Macro & Close Up Photographer of the Year 2023 -London- UK

-3rd Place overall Black & White Photo Contest 2023 -reFocus Award

-Overall winner Naturajazz Contest of the Scientific and Archaeological Museum of Tenerife October 2023-SPAIN.

-4th Place Sports in Action Honorable Mention Siena International Photo Awards 2023 October 2023 ITALY

-1st, 2nd and 3rd Place Nature, 1st and 3rd Place Photojournalism -KOY AWARDS 2023 PORTUGAL

-Shorlist Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Motion Category -London -UK

-2º Place World Masters of Photography 2023 -WMPO Awards- Contemporary Category Vienna -AUSTRIA

-Best Autor Norsk Selskap for Fotografi – NSFF 7th Nordic Circuit 2022- NORWAY

-Best Author BAKU 2022 – AZERBAIJAN

-Best Author 11th. Bardaf International Exhibition Gabriel Grund Memorial 2022, Bardejov -SLOVAKIA 2022

-Best Author 1st SYR Darya 2022 International Exhibition of Photography, TAJIKISTAN

-Best Author 6th INTERNATIONAL ART PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON “VARADINUM” 2022 -ROMANIA

-Best Author 1st New World International Photography Circuit 2022 – HULKİ MURADİ Photography&Art, Mersin, TURKEY

-3rd Place overall WPE Awards Europe Second Half 2022

-1s Place Professional Nature -MACRO IPA 2022 International Photography Awards™ L.os Ángeles-USA

-Cosmos Awards 2022 -MALAYSIA

1st Place Animal Portrait Category

2nd Place Animal Portrait Category

2nd Place Travel Category

-1st Place Winner Technology Category 2nd Kioxia ExceLENS Awards 2022, Etihad Museum, Jumeirah, Dubai -UAE

-1st Place Winner Nature Category Global Photo Awards 2022 -Linz -AUSTRIA

-Overall Winner FEP Awards 2022 – FEP Professional Photographer of the Year 2022 -Rome -ITALY

1st Place Nature: Golden Camera

1st Place Sports : Golden Camera

-1st Place Macro Category Xposure International Photography Contest 2020-21 Sharjah UAE

-The Societies’ 2nd Place Overall Photographer of the Year 2021 -London-UK

Winner Sport Photographer of the Year 2021

Winner Macro and Close Up Photographer of the Year 2021

-1st Place Beauty of Nature Category -Smile World 2021 International Photography Awards CHINA

-Overall Winner in the ONE EYELAND Fine Art Photographers 2021 -INDIA

-2nd Place Best Award 3rd GCPA INTERNATIONAL 2021 -CANADA

-Best Author Basque Award XLIX Trofeo Gipuzkoa International 2021 -SPAIN

-2nd Place Extreme Close-up category Buglife Bug Photography Award 2021

-Winner in the Products Category in the Seventh Edition of the ArtPhoto contest 2021

-3rd Place Professional Nature -MACRO IPA 2021 International Photography Awards™ L.os Ángeles-USA

-One picture by Curator Selction in 2021 IPA “Best of Show” Exhibition

-Best Author SİLLE SANAT SARAYI İBRAHİM ZAMAN 2, 2021-TURKEY

-Best Author 5th International Photo Salon Georgian Drag 2021 -GEORGIA

-Best Author of the Circuit 25th Gran Tour delle Colline – 2021 ITALY

-1st Place Sports Category (Golden Camera) FEP Federation of European Professional Photographers AWARDS 2021 FINLAND

-Particular Merit Mention All About Photo Awards 2021 -USA

-1st Place Sony Alpha Nature Competition -Sony Europe London 2020

-WPE Awards Europe 2021 (First Half Contest) -Paris 2021

2nd Place in Macro Category.

-Expression Photography Awards (6th Edition) 2020

1st Place Street Photography

1st Place Landscape

2nd Place Sports

3rd Place Sport

-WPE Awards Europe 2020 (Annual Final Contest) -Paris 2020

2nd Place in Street Photography Category,

2nd Place in Animals/Pets/Insects Category.

2nd Place in Sports Category.

-IPA 2020 International Photography Awards™ L.os Ángeles- USA

Professional Subcategory Winner Nature-Macro

-2nd Place Aerial/Drone 5th Place Global Competition –

WPE Awards Europe 2020 (Second Half Competition) -PARIS 2020

-1st place Photo contest «Le Mouvement» -France 2020

Organized by the Arthritis Foundation and Nikon France

-3rd Place European Winner -Discover Whith Alpha Competition 2020

-Best Author of Uluslararası ‘Güler Ertan’ Fotoğraf Yarışması – 2020 TURKEY

-1st place Motion Category 35AWARDS VInternationalPhotographyAwards 100 best photographers of the year RUSSIA 2020

-1st place Art of Building photography competiion 2019 UK

-1st place Metro Photo Challenge 2019 MEXICO

-1st place Overall Winner Xposure International Photography Contest 2019 Sharjah UAE

-1st place Paris Sport Photo 2019 “Off Stadium” Category (exclusive competition for professional sports photographers) FRANCE

-1st place Urban design and use category in the Concrete in Life Contest GCCA 2019 London UNITED KINGDOM

-3rd place Architecture category, Pangea Bronze Trophy, in Siena Photography Awards 2019- ITALY.

-2nd Place and 2nd Place Professional Category Extreme Sports and Sports Competitions IPA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ™ 2019 CALIFORNIA USA

-4º place Sport Category Malta International Photo Award Spring 2019 (MIPA)

-Best Author of Canytellis International Contest of Art Photograhpy 2019 TURKEY

-Best Author of 3°Jewels Circuit International PhotoContest Edition 2019I TALY

-1st place Speed 2019 Agora Images App. SPAIN

-1st place Sports 2019 Agora Images App. SPAIN

-Gold Medal of the Trierenberg SuperCircuit category Sports AUSTRIA 2019

-HIPA Histagram Competition winner Celebrate Photography 2019 (Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum) DUBAI

-1st place Grandprize Cities Category Malta Photography Awards 2018 MALTA

-1st place in the Sports category Pangea Gold Trophy, and the Remarkable Sports Award in the Siena Photography Awards 2018- ITALY.

-1st Place Architecture Category URBAN Photo Awards 2018 Trieste 2018- ITALY.

-3rd Place Professional Category Extreme Sports and Honorable mention Architecture Other, IPA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ™ 2018 CALIFORNIA USA.

-Honorable Mention Photojournalism The Yellow Awards 2018 (Photographic talent awards) Madrid SPAIN.

-1st Place in Category of Urban landscapes in the contest 35awards International Photography Awards 2018 RUSSIA.

-Best Author of the Zaffiri Gran Prix Contest FIAP Blue Pin ITALY 2018.

-Finalist photographs in TPS AWARDS 2018 Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA.

-2nd Place and 3rd Place Professional Category Field Sports IPA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ™ 2017 CALIFORNIA USA.

-3rd Editorial Place: Sports and 3rd Place Sports Water Sports and 10 Honorable Mentions IPA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ™ 2016 CALIFORNIA USA.

-2nd Place and 3rd Place Non-professional category Sports and Other IPA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ™ 2015CALIFORNIA USA.

-Sport Photographer of the Year 2017 IPA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS ™–SPAIN 2017.

-2 Photographs awarded in the two categories Sports and Photos of Sport Films 4th International Sport Photography Festival (Teheran-IRAN) 2017.

-IUP Gold Medal PJD 3rd IUP International Photographic Exhibition 2017 – HONG KONG.

-2 Photographs Comended in the Sony World Photography adwards 2018 London Motion category, LONDON.

-2 Photographs Comended in the Sony World Photography adwards 2017 London Motion category, LONDON.

-4 Photographs Comended in the Sony World Photography adwards 2016 Split seconds and general category, LONDON.

-Best Author of the International Tour Grand Tour delle Colline 2017 ITALY (Grand Tour Trophy).

-Winner EMEA Region – Europe, Middle East and Africa, CBRE Urban Photographer of the year 2016 NEW YORK USA.

-2nd Place Category sports in the PDN Adrenaline Photography Contest 2017, NEW YORK USA.

-Remarkable Award Sports Category Siena Photography Awards 2017, ITALY.

-3rd Place Category Sports Pangea Trophy, and 2 Honorable Mentions in Sports and General at the Siena Photography Awards 2016- ITALY.

-5th place winner in the Sports Category Kuwaiti Grand Photograhpy Contest 2016 KUWAIT.

-Silver Medal 3th International Profesional Competition of Sport Photograhpy Sporfolio Festival 2016 Narbonne FRANCE.

-2nd Place Sports Category Fotowedstrijd Photocontest 2015 Rotterdam HOLAND.

-1st Place GOLDEN CAMERA (Category Amateur Photo Essay) Kiev 2015 UKRAINE.

-Finalist HIPA 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum DUBAI.

-HIPA Histagram Competition winner Architecture December 2016.

-HIPA Histagram Competition Winner Creativity June 2015 (Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum) Dubai.

National Awards

He has participated in numerous national competitions highlighting in photographic competitions of sporting, such as:

-Overall Winner IV Basque League of Photography 2022-2023

-Overall Winner VIII Spanish Photography League 2022-2023

-Overall Winner III Basque League of Photography 2021-2022

-Overall Winner VI Spanish Photography League 2020-2021

-Winner category sports V Spanish Photography League 2019-2020, 4th Classified General Category 2020

-Winner Sports Photography Contest Formentera 2019

-Winner Lar Graphics Press Calendar 2020

-Winner Photography Contest Guille Marti Revillo

-Winner National Contest Sports Photography Elgoibar

-Winner KEMEN Photographic Contest,

-Winner Photographic Contest Sports / Kirol Argazkien Lehiaketa Bergara

-2nd Classified , third and fourth in different editions National Sports Photography Contest Valladolid

-Winner Emtesport Sports Photography Contest,

-Winner National Photography Competition Felix Ordonez,

-Winner Photography Competition Espabox Best Photo of Boxing 2015,2017,2018

-Finalist Photo Nikon 2017

-Winner category sports III Spanish Photography League 2017-2018, Seventh Classified General category 2018

-Winner category sports II Spanish Photography League 2016-2017, second classified general category 2017

Exhibitions

-Zarautz-Basque Country -Insects the little strangers November 2023

Sopelana -Basque Country -Insects the little strangers June 2023

-Photo exhibition “Insects the little strangers” in the CARPATIAN FIAP EXHIBITION Center- Uzhhorod Castle Zakarpattia Oblast -UKRAINE

-ArtFestival Torrelavega Spain “Insects the little strangers” September 2022

-Turkish Federation of Photography TFSF “The Predator of Instants” January 2021

-Lishui Photo Festival “Me and My family” November 2019 CHINA.

-“Feel the Sport” September 2019 Elgoibar Gipuzkoa SPAIN

-Festival des Chemins de photos “Pêche au cormoran” Junne 2019 FRANCE

-Personal Exhibition with 40 of my photographs at the Museum of the Foprtress in the City of Oradea ROMANIA January-February 2018

-12th Yixian Photography Festival. Yixian with serie “Natural World” November 2017

-11th Yixian Photography Festival. Yixian CHINA November 2016

-4th International Photo Art Exhibitión of World top Photographers (PSBP´S) MALASIA November 2016

Publications

Publications in national newspapers of major sports such as MARCA and AS, in addition to publications in general theme newspapers such as El Pais, DEIA, El Correo, BBC, Clarin, Russian RosPhoto, Capture Mania, BAO, Boxing Monthly, Professional Photographers of America Magazine, etc.

Jury

-3rd THE MINE MUSEUM PHOTO INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT- Memorial Enzo November 2023

-9th Circular Exhibition of Photography “Three Country Grand Circuit 2021” Irlanda-Montenegro-Serbia December 2021

-2nd IUP Yunnan Branch Int. Photo Exhibition 2021 China October 2021

-5th International Art Photography Salón ‘Varadinum Oradea – Romania 2021 October 2021

-2nd WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY UNION CIRCUIT 2021 China August 2021

-DPA International Circuit 2021 Montenegro July 2021

-1st BIG CHINA INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CIRCUIT 2021 China June 2021

-18th Adana Rotary Club International Photo Contest Turkey 2021

-Oztan Ozatay Memorial Awards 2021 Cyprus April 2021

-I Salon Internacional de Fotografia y II Concurso de la Asociación Fotográfica de la Universidad de Cádiz UCAMERA Spain April 2021

-F2 Cities 2021 Argentina FIAP Nº 2021/213, PSA Nº 2021-1134 March 2021