PHOTOGRAPHY 4 HUMANITY - 2021

2021

2021 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Submission

2021

2021 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Submission

2021 GLOBAL PRIZE

Recipient: Apratim Pal

Title: A Thirsty Earth

Description: Women searching for water because they do not have sufficient sources of water for daily use due to severe droughts.

Location: West Bengal, India

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FOTOGRAFISKA NEW YORK EXHIBITION SPECIAL EVENT

World renowned portrait photographer Martin Schoeller, Photography for Humanity President David Rose, and Fotografiska Director of Exhibitions Amanda Hajjar discuss the 2021 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Recipient and Top 10 Finalists at a special event hosted by United Nations Human Rights, and Fotografiska - at their NYC Museum on December 10, 2021 – UN Human Rights Day.

UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL EXHIBIT

The 2021 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Recipient and Top 10 Finalists had their work exhibited globally by the United Nations on UN.org.

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2021 GLOBAL PRIZE TOP 10 FINALISTS

Title: Gender Discrimination

Description: One of the biggest problems in our society is gender discrimination, which begins during childhood. "Why should we teach this to our children?"

Photographer: Parichehr Zhian

Location: Tehran, Iran

Date: September 2020
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Title: Golden Child

Description: Ghana exported approximately US $10 billion in gold, while the majority of people working in small-scale illegal gold mining live on just US $2 per day, and child labour is mostly free.

Photographer: Mariusz Smiejek

Location: Ghana

Date: September 2020
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Title: High Hopes

Description: A group of rescuers try to save the victims of a shipwreck until the end.

Photographer: Fabrizio Maffei

Location: Mediterranean Sea

Date: November 2020
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Title: Unjust

Description: A young man is hoping for some help, but the man inside the car is taking pictures without helping him. The photographer is trying to show that this type of behavior is injustice.

Photographer: Mohammed Saiful Islam

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Date: June 2021
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Title: Homeless

Description: A mother holds her baby after a huge fire swept through the Rohingya refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh. The UN has said that 15 people died and some 400 others are missing. 45,000 are displaced.

Photographer: M Yousuf Tushar

Location: Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Date: March 2021
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Title: Isolated and Connected

Description: A health worker is having a video call with his family while using personal protective equipment in a break room.

Photographer: Gerdie Hutomo

Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Date: January 2021
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Title: Stay Home

Description: In 2020, humanity has been forced to live in new conditions. Civilization is intensively engendering a new normality.

Photographer: Yuri Pritisk

Location: Novocheboksarsk, Russia

Date: November 2020
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Title: Ten Years After Acid Attack

Description: Masoumeh Ataei, a victim of an acid attack, holds her portrait, taken before the attack.

Photographer: Morteza Nikoubazl

Location: Parand, Iran

Date: March 2021
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Title: All I Want is Love

Description: Two transgender youths hold each other in a bond of love and friendship. Exposed to bigotry and prejudice, basic human rights are often withheld from transgender people.

Photographer: Somenath Mukhopadhyay

Location: Assam, India

Date: March 2021
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Title: Protest has a Woman's Face

Description: Belarus women resist attempts by the Police to detain them during the protest rally that was held on September 8, 2020, in support of opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova.

Photographer: Yauhen Yerchak / EPA

Location: Minsk, Belarus

Date: September 2020
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HIGHLIGHTS

2021 Winner - Apratim Pal

"A Thirsty Earth"

2021 Top 10 Finalist - Parichehr Zhian

"Gender Discrimination"

2021 Top 10 Finalist - Mariusz Smiejek

"Golden Child"

2021 Top 10 Finalist - Fabrizio Maffei

"High Hopes"

2021 Top 10 Finalist: M Yousuf Tushar

"Homeless"

2021 Top 10 Finalist: Gerdie Hutomo

"Isolated and Connected"

2021 Top 10 Finalist: Yuri Pritisk

"Stay Home"

2021 Top 10 Finalist: Morteza Nikoubazl

"Ten Years After Acid Attack"

2021 Top 10 Finalist - Somenath Mukhopadhyay

"All I Want is Love"

2021 GLOBAL PRIZE HONORABLE MENTIONS

Title: Girl Smiling in the Color of the Sky

Description: Show the joy and smile of a girl in a remote village while living in her poor house.

Photographer: Seyedmohammad Tabrizi

Location: Dashtak, Iran

Date: March 2021
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Title: Human and Plastic

Description: Bangladesh is one of the top plastic polluted country in the world,approximately 3000 tonnes of plastic waste per day. Most of it end up in landfills and water causing serious threats to environment.

Photographer: Mithail Afrige Chowdhury

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Date: December 2020
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Title: Family Outing

Description: After the lockdown of Covid-19 is unrestricted, a family experienced the morning mist and a short outing in the heart of Kolkata in India

Photographer: Rajesh Dhar

Location: Kolkata, India

Date: January 2021
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Title: At Home

Description: My grandmother and I spent a lot of time at home during quarantine. In this process, I tried to rediscover the light at home and our daily life.

Photographer: Emre Çakmak

Location: Ankara, Turkey

Date: May 2021
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Title: Emergency Nurse

Description: Emergency Nurse cures the people who lives in the village there is no clinic or hospital.

Photographer: Pyae Phyo Aung Amarabo

Location: Naung Goe Village, Myanmar

Date: January 2021
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Title: Water Shortage

Description: Earlier this year, I went to a village with friends. There is a shortage of drinking water there. I saw two children fetching water between the beautiful rocks and recorded it with compassion.

Photographer: Aung Kyaw Zaw

Location: Seikhtein Village, Myanmar

Date: January 2021
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Title: Masked Women

Description: Women in Iran are required to cover their bodies with a chador. With the spread of the corona virus, these limitations have been exacerbated by masking.

Photographer: Hadi Dehghanpour

Location: Sabzevar, Iran

Date: September 2020
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Title: Sport and Fun Instead of War and Fear

Description: In the Syrian village of Al-jina near the city of Aleppo, Wasim Satot has opened a karate school for children. What makes it special is that girls and boys with and without disabilities are taught together. They are between six and 15 years old. With his school, Satot wants to create a sense of community and overcome any war experiences - Aleppo was fiercely contested - in the minds of the children.

Photographer: Anas Alkharboutli

Location: Syria

Date: October 2020
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Title: SOS Columbia

Description: #SOSCOLOMBIA was one of the most used hashtags to make the Human Right´s violations visible that were committed by police during the nationwide protests in Colombia that began on April 28th.

Photographer: Julia Maria Schmidt

Location: Bogotá, Colombia

Date: April 2021
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Title: Devi Boron

Description: Married women could be seen clad in traditional red bordered white sarees with face shields & blew the conch shells to perform the ‘Devi Boron’, is the last puja before immersion of the goddess Durga.

Photographer: Sourav Karmakar

Location: New Delhi, India

Date: October 2020
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Title: COVID19 and Its Impact

Description: A family member bows down his head and sits completely broken at Harishchandra Crematorium. His loved one passed away of Covid 19 and the body can be seen wrapped in White plastic & orange fabric.

Photographer: Mohit Khetrapal

Location: Varanasi, India

Date: January 2021
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Title: Deadly Fire at Rohingya Refugee Camp

Description: Rohingya refugees search for their belongings after a massive fire that tore through a sprawling refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, has killed at least 15 people and some 400 others missing.

Photographer: M Yousuf Tushar

Location: Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Date: March 2021
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Title: Birthday

Description: An earthquake-stricken family celebrates a birthday in a tent

Photographer: Eshagh Aghaeimansourabad

Location: Yasuj, Iran

Date: March 2021
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Title: Belarusian Ghetto

Description: The slogan "Long Live Belarus" (Zhyve Belarus) became symbols of the Belarusian opposition when mass protests began in the country after the announcement of the results of the presidential elections.

Photographer: Alexandra Bozhok

Location: Minsk, Belarus

Date: December 2020
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Title: A New World (New Reality)

Description: A public school pupil shot wearing a facemask in her classroom.

Photographer: Fatima Yusuf

Location: Lafia, Nigeria

Date: July 2021
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