A photo with crosses of little girls’ dresses hanging near a Canadian boarding school where The remains of about 215 indigenous children were found last yearwin it World Press Photo Award for the year 2022.
The photo he took Edmonton-based documentation photographer Amber Brackencaptures a “calm moment of reflection (…) on the history of colonialism not only in Canada but around the world,” he said. Rena Effendi, member of the jury.
Presenting the global winners of the # WPPh2022 Contest:
– ‘Kamloops Residential School’ by @photobracken
– ‘Saving Forests with Fire’ by @mattabbottphoto
– ‘Amazonian Dystopia’ by Lalo de Almeida
– ‘Blood is a Seed’ by Isadora Romero
Discover their work: https://t.co/KfNB2zECVa pic.twitter.com/mPRvlb3EXS– World Press Photo (@WorldPressPhoto) April 7, 2022
On the right side of the photo, published by the New York Times, Little girl dresses in red and ocher colors hang from crosses next to a freeway in Kamloops, a small town in British Columbia.
On the left, the curve of a rainbow that ends at the point where the mass grave was discovered, where a so-called boarding school was located, which was founded a century ago to forcibly assimilate the indigenous population.
This mass grave was the first in a series to be discovered, forcing Canadians to confront their colonial past. Various surveys of these old boarding schools for Indians are being conducted throughout the country.
“I do not have the impression that this is a photograph that could belong to me,” Amber Bracken, 38, told AFP. “It was the depiction of a thing created by the community in order to honor and bring back the memory of its lost children”he said.
Authorities estimate that a total of more than 4,000 children may have been reported missing.
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