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Pardo's picture, showing a victim of gang war, comes from a series on Mexico's feuding drug cartels taken between August last year and March this year. The series was shot in and around Acapulco, a tourist destination that has become the backdrop for a turf war between organised crime gangs controlling the sale of drugs. Pardo took second prize for the series at the Bayeux-Calvados war correspondents awards in October this year.

Pardo, 38, studied photojournalism and graphic arts at the Institute of Visual Arts in Puebla, Mexico and in Cuba. He worked as a photographer and photo editor for the newspapers El Periodico, La Jornada and Sintesis. He won a best journalist award from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala in 2002, and his work was selected for a collective photographic book published in 2003, "When The World Said No To War".

Pardo has worked with AFP in Acapulco since 2009.

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