Honorable Mention TOKYO-2016 Events / Sport

The Hug

  • Photographer
    Domenic Aquilina

Professional photo-reporter from Malta for 15 years, specialising in sport. Official UEFA Country Correspondent and EPA European Pressphoto Agency stringer in Malta. The only Maltese photo-reporter to have covered eleven UEFA Champions League Finals to date. Sport Photographer of The Year in Malta in 2014. Sport Photographer of The Year at the SWPP Convention London in 2011. "Editorial" Category Winner at the Moscow International Foto Awards 2016

Born on August 2nd, 1957 in Senglea, Malta. Official Malta country correspondent to www.uefa.com – the official site of the Union of European Football Associations, and regular photographic contributor to UEFA various publications. Covered 13 UEFA Champions League Finals to date, Domenic is also listed as the official European Pressphoto Agency (epa) Malta stringer. Aquilina occupies the role of Chief Sports Photographer and Sports Photography co-ordinator at The Malta Independent. He is also a photographic/journalistic contributor to various leading publications abroad.