Walter Astrada е роден през 1974 г. в Буенос Айрес, Аржентина. Той започва кариерата си като щатен фотограф в местния вестник La Nacion. По-късно той се присъединява към Associated Press (AP) в Боливия, а след това Аржентина, Парагвай и Доминиканската република. От 2005 г. до 2006 г. работи на свободна практика за Agence France Presse (AFP) в Доминиканската република и е представляван и разпространяван от World Picture News.
През 2008 и 2009 г. той покрива Източна Африка, извън Уганда.
Астрада също изнася лекции и семинари по фотожурналистика, документална фотография и създаване на филми.
През годините той е спечелил широк спектър от награди, включително 3 World Press Photo, наградата Bayeux-Calvados за военни кореспонденти; “Фотожурналист на годината” и “Най-добър на шоуто” от NPPA-BOP; фотограф на годината и снимка на годината от PGB ; годишна първа награда на PDN Photo, редица награди за POYi, “Дните на Япония” 1 награда – Days Japan 1st Prize, Alfred I. du Pont Award – награда за отлични постижения в радио и телевизионна журналистика, както и 1-ви брой за “Репортажна история” от фондация „Алексия“, редакторски субсидии на Getty.
В момента той пътува на мотор “Royal Enfield” с цел да направи обиколка на света, започнала в Барселона, Испания на 1 май 2015 г.
NAIROBI, KENYA, JANUARY 17, 2008:
Monday Lawiland, 7 years old, screams as he sees kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.
(Photo by Walter Astrada)
NAIROBI, KENYA, JANUARY 18, 2008:
A relative of a sixteen-year-old girl who was shot dead by police in the Kibera slum caresses her face at the local morgue in Nairobi. Kenyan police shot dead five protestors Friday on the last day of rallies against President Mwai Kibaki’s re-election before the opposition launches a threatened boycott of government-linked companies.(Photo by Walter Astrada/Reportage by Getty Images)
NAKURU, KENYA, JANUARY 26, 2008:
A man stands amid the mess left after houses belonging to the Kikuyu tribe were ransacked by an opposing tribe during ethnic clashes in the central Kenyan town of Nakuru. (Photo by Walter Astrada/Reportage by Getty Images)
GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA – NOVEMBER 21, 2006: Yoselin Sarai Perez Hidalgo, 15, poses after filing charges against her 27 year-old boyfriend at the Public Ministry building in Guatemala City. Yoselin’s mother and her aunt brought her to the Public Ministry after her boyfriend beat her. Yoselin is seeking a restraining order against him.
(Photo by Walter Astrada/Reportage by Getty Images)
BOCA DEL MONTE, GUATEMALA – NOVEMBER 19, 2006:
Guatemalan Maira Esperanza GutiЋrrez, 42, lies dead after being assassinated by 16 shots of firearm by a no identified man, while personal of the Public Ministry inspect her body in Boca del Monte, Department of Guatemala.
(Photo by Walter Astrada/Reportage by Getty Images)
NUEVA CHINAUTLA, GUATEMALA – MARCH 4, 2007:
A mourner of Rosa Vazquez Marroquin, 69, who was found in a precipice in Nueva Chinautla, carries a standing spray.
(Photo by Walter Astrada/Reportage by Getty Images)
KIBUMBA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – OCTOBER 27, 2008: A Congolese woman carrying her child and belongings passes a Congolese army tank near Kibumba, about 35 kilometers (21.7 miles) north of the provincial capital Goma. (Photo by Walter Astrada for Oleiros Revela Grant/Reportage by Getty Images)
MINOVA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – NOVEMBER 29, 2008: Mama Masika, who works in a counseling house that she founded in 2001, listens to Zabibu, 10. While collecting potatoes three days earlier in Kalungu, Zabibu was raped by two members of the CNDP (CongrЏs National pour la DЋfense du Peuple/National Congress for the Defence of the People).
Mama Masika founded the house in 2001 after she recovered from her own experience with rape.
In 1998 a group of Tutsi soldiers entered her village during the Congolese civil war.
They killed her husband and cut him into pieces. They ordered Mama Masika to make a bed with the pieces. She was forced to lie on it and 12 soldiers raped her. Her two daughters, 12 and 14 years old, were also raped in the next room.
After these attacks she fainted and when she woke up she found herself in a hospital. She could not remember what had happened to her.
Months later, her daughter gave birth, but could not remember how she had gotten pregnant.
Nobody was telling her the truth, until someone from a womenХs organization started talking to her and helped her to understand what happened.
After 3 years of counseling, she had recovered somewhat and decided to open this house to help women who are victims of sexual violence. Since 2001, she has helped 5,875 women and has also taken care of children who were born as a result of rape.
(Photo by Walter Astrada for Oleiros Revela Grant)
GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – OCTOBER 17, 2008:
Nzigire, 25, rests in a bed in Gersom Hospital in Goma. Nzigire, from a region near Goma called Sake, was raped by 3 members of the CNDP (CongrЏs National pour la DЋfense du Peuple/National Congress for the Defence of the People). They also shot her in her the breast. She was found and cared for by a female counselor from Sake, and later diverted to Gersom Hospital where they removed the bullet from her breast. Nzigire now suffers from mental disorders; she does not speak, she refuses to eat, and lies in bed the whole day.
(Photo by Walter Astrada for Oleiros Revela Grant/Reportage by Getty Images)
JAGRAON, INDIA – JANUARY 12, 2010: The patientХs sister-in-law is clearly disappointed after checking the sex of a newborn baby in a hospital in Jagraon. As the mother already has two daughters, everyone was hoping this pregnancy would deliver the desired son.
(Photo by Walter Astrada for Alexia Foundation)
THATTA, INDIA – JANUARY 17, 2010: A woman drinks holy water from the sarovar inside the Gurdwara Bir Baba Budha Sahib (popularly known as Bir Sahib) located 20 km south of Amritsar in the village of Thatta. Baba Budha Ji, a venerated saint in early Sikhism, spent much of his life (1506-1631) here. It is also the place where Guru Arjan Dev Ji and his wife Mata Ganga were blessed with a son, Shri Hargobind Sahib. Thousands of people visit the site each year to seek the saintХs blessing of a son.
(Photo by Walter Astrada for Alexia Foundation/Reportage by Getty Images)
VARANASI, INDIA – NOVEMBER 28, 2009: UtmaХs burnt foot are seen as she rests on a bed inside the burn unit. She arrived at the hospital with severe burns to 100% of her body as a result of being doused in kerosene and lit on fire Р the penalty for her familyХs inability to pay the additional dowry demanded by her in-laws. The hospital cannot be named to protect the people who allowed me access to the burn unit.
(Photo by Walter Astrada for Alexia Foundation/Reportage by Getty Images)
