samuel aranda (1979) is a photographer who has spent 15 years documenting armed, social, and migratory conflicts around the world. He frequently works for The New York Times in the Middle East and Africa, although he has also traveled to Pakistan, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Colombia, China, and Transnistria, among many other destinations. He has worked for media outlets such as National Geographic, Sunday Times Magazine, Star, Le Monde o The weekly country.

His images of Spain in crisis, published in The New York Times They sparked political debates and drew attention to the reality and severity of the impact of the economic collapse on the Spanish working class.

In 2012 he was awarded the World Press Photo for an image of the Yemeni uprising taken for The New York TimesThat same year, his hometown of Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona) awarded him the Premi Ciutat. In 2006, his article on African migration to Europe earned him the National Association of Graphic Reporters for Press and Television (ANIGP-TV) award. In 2015, he received the Nikon Photography Award for his coverage of the Ebola crisis, and in 2016, also for his work on the refugee crisis, he received the Ortega y Gasset Award.

He has held exhibitions at the Telefónica Foundation (Chile), Caixa Foundation (Brazil), CCCB (Barcelona), La Virreina (Barcelona), Visa Pour L'Image (Perpignan), Silk Road Gallery (Tehran) and at the Cervantes Institutes in New York and Tunis.