The Dutch foundation, organizer of the contest, awarded the prizes for the first time by geographical areas, gathered in Asia, Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and Oceania, North and Central America, and South America, with themes that range from problems derived from climate change to movements for civil rights, access to education and the preservation of the identity of indigenous communities. These themes were represented in 64,823 photos that were submitted by 4,066 authors from a total of 130 countries.
“This new competition model has forced us to go beyond the place where we feel comfortable. The result reflects the world from a deeper and more nuanced point of view”, explained yesterday Rena Effendi, president of the global jury that has chosen the photos, when revealing the result of the contest.
Argentina irina werning was awarded in South America, for an image in which Antonella appears, a 12-year-old girl who lives in Buenos Aires, and who, with one leg on a chair and the other on a table, shows how her black hair has grown during the pandemic, to the point that it reaches a few centimeters from the ankles. The girl, who has been locked up by the coronavirus pandemic, decides to cut her long hair when I can finally go back to school, in person.
The photographer took as an example to reflect the crisis in education, the situation of students during confinement. With this image, published by the Pulitzer Center, the jury considered that it reflects a form of resistance and shows the value of hair throughout the world.
Among the winners of the Individual Photo, the one from Africa reflects the citizen protests registered on December 30, 2021 in Sudan, demanding the end of the military regime, taken by Faiz Abubakr Mohammed, who lives in the Sudanese city of Khartoum. In the Stories category, also in Africa, a mother appears crying in her home, in Nigeria, the day after the kidnapping of her two daughters, an event that occurred in February 2021, and in the same assault, an armed group took to another 279 minors from the dormitories of their school, according to the newspaper El País.
In Asia, the chosen Individual Photo is by Fatima Shbair, and presents Palestinian children gathered on May 25, 2021 in their neighborhood, in Gaza, where they light up with the help of candles and protest against the attacks suffered during a ceasefire. established fire, after eleven days of conflict, between Hamas and Israel.
In Long-Term Projects, he won a paper on the efforts of farmers in the village of Ghosri, in India, to protect their crops and livestock from tigers.
In Europe, the winning Individual Photo took the fires recorded in Greece in August 2021, taken by photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis, for Bloomberg News.
In the Long-Term Projects, the crisis in the Ukraine, before the current war, appears in a series that includes the headless statue of Lenin, planted in the Cheminots park, in the city of Kotovsk.
Among the winners in North and Central America, the selected Individual Photo shows a row of crosses planted along a road in memory of nearly 5,000 indigenous children killed in one of the open institutions in Kamloops, British Columbia (Canada). . The photo is signed by Amber Bracken for the New York Times.
In Southeast Asia and Oceania, the Free Format section features the massacre of students at Thammasat University, in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, an event that happened in 1976 and in which images from the time are mixed with those taken between 2020 and 2021 by photographer Charinthorn Rachurutchata. On that occasion, the police and paramilitaries shot at the students almost fifty years ago, and she has torn the photos to repair them later with liquid lacquer and gold dust, “a process that symbolizes trauma and hope for a better future.” the jury asserted.
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