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Mario Proenca has been awarded on the most important Portuguese press photo annual contest, Visão|BES 2008, in wich participated 227 photographers with a toll of 6848 photos.

The picture of a young woman running from the flames that hit her house during a huge wildfire in Sintra (full coverage here), was awarded with an honorable mention in the News category by an international jury panel composed by Jean-François Leroy (Visa Pour L'Image Festival Director), Yuri Kozyrev (Noor agency photographer), Philip Blenkinsop (Noor agency photographer), Nöel Quidu (Gamma photographer) and Susan Smith (National Geographic Magazine).

(original date: 2008-04-04)