Hector Fabio Zamora One of the great photojournalists in Colombia, and a photographer for the pages of EL TIEMPO Casa Editorial since 1998, died on the morning of this Monday, April 11, due to natural causes.
His death occurred in Manizales.
It is difficult to find a journalist in the corridors of the newsroom of EL TIEMPO who does not have a good memory with Héctor Fabio. Portraitist of many of the moments that impacted the recent history of Colombia, and an exemplary human being, he alternated graphic reporting with teaching in the Rosario University, and other institutions in the country’s capital.
Dozens of his disciples in the halls where he taught and in the very corridors of this Publishing House currently portray the complex Colombian reality.
Zamora, born in Armenia, He was passionate about photography from a very young age. Graduated from Quindio’s University, He began his journey in this newspaper when he joined the regional Coffee Region, based in Pereira. He also worked in the Colombian Journal, of his hometown Armenia, and in the Evening Newspaper, from Risaralda.
Some of the cruelest chapters of the armed conflict that hit the country, the great social mobilizations of recent years, the impressive Bogota sunsets and Colombia in its day to day in all its complexity and its sadness and its greatness were immortalized by the great Héctor Fabio in his impressive professional career.
In 2020, he won the award Simon Bolivar in the Graphic Report category for the sequence of four photographs that he captured in the framework of the national strike, in November 2019. For this series also, two years ago, he received an honorable mention in the ninth edition of the Journalism Awards of the Grupo de Diarios de América.
In 2005, he received the Alfonso Bonilla Aragón award, from the Cali Mayor’s Office, in the category of Graphic Reporting. “The important thing is to continue in this daily struggle to build a better country“, he said at the time.
Multiple-time winner of the most important journalistic awards in the country, he leaves a huge void in his family, friends, students and in the journalistic guild, in which he always distinguished himself by his enormous talent and his unfailing kindness.
EL TIEMPO Casa Editorial deeply regrets his early departure and sympathizes with his family and loved ones.
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