Winner BJP Photoaward 2007

Picture © Carla Verea, last year’s winner of the BJP International Photography Award.Young  Mexican photographer Carla Verea picked up the BJP International Photography  Award in 2007 with a powerful set of portraits of Guatemalan bodyguards. Shot  over two years, the project unanimously won the judges over with its unflinching  portrayal of the bodyguards and their casual familiarity with violence and  power. Her exhibition opening was sponsored by Jose Cuervo and was attended by  the Mexican cultural attach