Inas Maamar “lullabies” the lifeless body of her five-year-old niece, in an image that brings tears to the eyes…
The photo of a Palestinian woman holding in her arms the shrouded body of her niece who was killed in an Israeli raid in Gaza was honored with the first prize of the World Press Photo.
The photo was taken 10 days after the start of the war in Gaza and it brings a knot in the stomach and tears in the eyes
Inas Maamar cradles the lifeless body of her five-year-old niece, Sally, who she was killed along with her mother and sister by an Israeli rocket that hit their house in Khan Younes in October.
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The photo belongs to 39-year-old Palestinian Reuters photojournalist Mohamed Salemwho was at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younes on October 17 when he saw 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar at the morgue holding tightly in her arms the body of the dead girl wrapped in a shroud.
His wife gave birth to their child a few days before he took this photo.
“It was a powerful and sad moment and I felt that the image summed up in a broad sense what was happening in the Gaza Strip.”said Mohamed Salem, according to the World Press Photo release.
“It’s a really deeply moving image…When you see it, it somehow sticks in your mind”said the president of his jury Fiona Shields Award.
The rest of the awards
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– World Press Photo Story of the Year: ‘Valim-babena’ by Lee-Ann Olwage (@leeannolwage), South Africa, for @geomagazin.
South African Lee-Ann Olwage, documentarian and photographer for GEO magazine, won the “Story of the Year” award with the portrait of a family from Madagascar that tells the story of life with a grandmother suffering from dementia.
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– World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award: ‘The Two Walls’ by Alejandro Cegarra (@alecegarra), Venezuela, @nytimes/@Bloomberg.
The photographer Alejandro Cegarra (Alejandro Cegarra) from Venezuela won the award in the “long term” category with his monochrome photographs of migrants and asylum seekers trying to cross Mexico’s southern border.
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– World Press Photo Open Format Award: ‘War Is Personal’ by Julia Kochetova (@seameer), Ukraine
In the “open format” category Ukrainian Yulia Kosetova she won the award for her website “which combines photojournalism with the documentary style of a personal diary that shows the world what it means to live with war as a daily reality”.
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Source :Skai
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