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Fermín Torrano

Journalist and war photographer

Fermín Torrano (Pamplona, Spain, 1996) is a journalist and associate lecturer at the University of the Basque Country. Over the past eight years he has worked on the ground in Ukraine, Israel, the West Bank and Liberia, focusing on armed conflict, post-war trauma and human rights. He is currently Defence Editor at El Confidencial, after five years covering the war in Ukraine mainly for that newspaper, but also for the British daily The Telegraph and for El Español. His photographic work has been published in major international titles including The Guardian, CNN, Die Zeit and Bloomberg, among others.

• Winner, Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism — Freelance of the Year (2025)
• Finalist, Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents (2025)
• Winner, Teobaldo Award — Navarrese Journalist of the Year (2022)