The foundation, which annually awards the World Press Photo Awards, recognized the best photo of the year by photographer Amber Bracken for The New York Times. The work approaches the indigenous girls who went missing in British Columbia (Canada) and refers to a red dress placed by the roadside representing children who died at Kamloops Indigenous Residential School on Saturday, June 19, 2021. There are also red dresses. Indicated by the disproportionate number of indigenous women and girls lost and killed.
Residential schools began to function in the 19th century as part of a policy of forcibly assimilating people from various indigenous societies into European cultures of European refugees and missionaries. More than 150,000 students were forcibly expelled from their homes, often barred from communicating in their own languages, and subjected to physical and sometimes sexual violence. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has concluded that at least 4,100 students have died in schools. The Kamloops school has become the largest in the system. In May 2021, a survey using Georadar revealed the burials of 215 potential youth in Camloops, confirming oral history reports.
National Geographic’s Matthew Abbott receives the award for best story, for his report on the Australian indigenous population and the method of land burning.
Lalo de Almeida, for Folha de São Paulo / Panos Pictures, was the winner in the long-term projects category for his work in the Amazon jungle.
The open source award is for the video of Isadora Romero, composed of intervention photos, entitled Blood is a seed.
These photos, which are global winners, join this year’s news of 24 regional winners, announced on March 23rd.
The winning photos can be seen at the exhibition November 4 to December 11 at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB).
Source: El Diario
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