Raghu Rai is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who nominated Rai, then a young photojournalist, to join Magnum Photos in 1977.
Graciela Iturbide is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum.
Club Balonmano Cantabria was a team of handball based in Santander, Cantabria. CB Cantabria was not registered in any handball league after 2008.
José Emilio Amavisca Gárate is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a left midfielder or left winger.
Larry Towell is a Canadian photographer, poet, and oral historian. Towell is known for his photographs of sites of political conflict in the Ukraine, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Standing Rock and Afghanistan, among others. In 1988, Towell became the first Canadian member of Magnum Photos.
Ricardo López Aranda was a Spanish playwright, born in Santander in 1934. In 1941 his family home was destroyed by the Santander fire. In 1958 he received the National University Theater Prize for his play "Nunca amanecerá" and published a version of Oedipus. In 1960, his work "Cerca de las estrellas" received the National Calderón de la Barca Theater prize and in 1961 the Aguilar prize. The play was presented at the National Teatro María Guerrero that same year and taken to the cinema in 1962. In 1964 he wrote "Noches de San Juan", which received the runner-up of theLope de Vega award and was presented at the María Guerrero National Theater in 1965.
Raúl Corrales Fornos was a Cuban photographer. Since 1961 he was member of the Photography Section of the Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).
Álvaro Pombo García de los Ríos is a Spanish poet, novelist and activist.
The International Piano Competition "Ricard Viñes" takes part each year in Auditorium Enric Granados in Lleida (Spain).
Antonio Guzmán Capel is a Spanish painter. Since 1961 he has resided in the city of Palencia, Spain.
Carlos Arroyo Zapatero is a contemporary architect, urbanist and critic from Madrid, Spain. His work claims to set the frame for a new architectural culture, language and aesthetics, through the ethics, technology and parameters of sustainability. He claims that his architecture is not designed to be photographed, but to be lived-in and enjoyed through time. He has developed a diagrammatic graphic style for his presentations which is inspirational for a whole generation of architects. In contrast, his built work is often portrayed by photographer-artists, producing innovative formats like photo-novellas, gif's, or video. His work has been exhibited in internationally renowned venues like the Venice Biennale, the Institut Français d'Architecture, presented in referential publications like El Croquis, and quoted by many bloggers in the sphere.
Lissette Solórzano is a professional photographer born in Santiago de Cuba in 1969. She has worked as a medical photographer, photojournalist, photo curator and graphic designer. She has won many prizes – such as the “Photographic Essay Prize” of the Casa de las Américas - and her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Cuba as well as in Mexico, in England and in the United States. She is also a member of the Cuban Writers and Artists Union (UNEAC).
Paloma O'Shea Artiñano, 1st Marchioness of O'Shea is a Spanish pianist, patron of the arts, founder and current president of the Reina Sofía School of Music, and founder and president of the Albéniz Foundation, which organizes the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in Santander, Spain.
Juan Navarro Baldeweg is a Spanish architect, painter, and sculptor. He directs the architectural studio Navarro Baldeweg Asociados in Madrid.
La Voz del Pueblo was a socialist weekly newspaper from Santander, Spain, published as a regional organ of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party in Cantabria 1898–1905. The newspaper was printed on Sundays. La Voz del Pueblo was the first socialist newspaper in the province. Isidoro Acevedo, Manuel Olivero and Álvaro Ortiz were the directors of La Voz del Pueblo. From October 15, 1899 onwards La Voz del Pueblo was edited at the workshop of the daily El Cantábrico, at Calle de la Compañía.
Thomas Dworzak is a German photographer. He has produced a number of books and is a member of Magnum Photos. He was President of Magnum from 2017 until 2020. Dworzak won a World Press Photo award in 2001 and in 2018 received the Hood Medal from the Royal Photographic Society in the UK.
Jassem Ghazbanpour is an Iranian photographer.
Silvia Vaculíková is Slovak writer, photographer and traveler. She mainly photographs simple people in their natural environment, recording local customs, religion and culture. Her photos, won her many awards.
Bence Máté is a Hungarian wildlife photographer. He pioneered the one-way glass photography technique now popular among hide-based nature photographers around the world. In 2010, his image 'Marvel of Ants' won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year grand title.
Luis Bezeta is a visual artist and Spanish filmmaker.
