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  1. 2005

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    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Pieter Hugo
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication Corbis
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-01-2005
    • Country Nigeria
    • Place Abuja
    • Caption Mallam Galadima Ahamadu with the hyena Jamis. Mallam is part of a troupe that travels around northern Nigeria with three hyenas, two rock pythons and four monkeys. They work as entertainers and sell the fetishes and herbal medicines that are much in demand. The hyenas are trained to mock-attack, which draws the crowds. The handlers capture the hyenas from caves in the wild, subduing them with traditional potions, then subjecting them to up to two months training. The creatures are then taught to interact with humans and other animals without attacking them. Mallam and his colleagues feed the hyenas a goat every three days or so, which also helps to keep them calm, and sprinkle water on them as they dislike excessive heat.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer David Høgsholt
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 01-06-2005
    • Country Denmark
    • Place Copenhagen
    • Caption Mia (26) stands behind the central station, the area that houses the city's red-light district. She is a drug addict and sex worker. Mia has lost her boyfriend to an overdose, her own addiction is worsening, and she seldom sees her six-year-old daughter, who is in foster care. Despite these difficulties, Mia tries to lead as decent a life as possible.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Tomás Munita
    • Nationality Chile
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 26-10-2005
    • Country Pakistan
    • Place Balakot
    • Caption A displaced girl some three weeks after the earthquake that racked the Kashmir region on October 8. She leads a mule carrying her belongings. Balakot was one of the towns hardest hit by the quake. Barely a building was left standing in what had once been a popular tourist destination. The city was renowned for the beauty of its situation at the entrance to the steep, thickly forested Kaghan Valley. It was also an object of pilgrimage as it was the location of the mausoleums of two Muslim martyrs.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Robert Knoth
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication TCS / Contrasto for Greenpeace
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-07-2005
    • Country Belarus
    • Place Vesnova
    • Caption Natasha Popova (12) and Vadim Kuleshov (8) live in the Vesnova orphanage. Natasha was born with microcephaly (her head is abnormally small); Vadim has a bone disease and is mentally retarded. It is not known for certain whether exposure to radiation can be linked to such conditions, but the Belarus government estimates a 250 percent increase in birth defects after the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, just across the border in Ukraine. Some 30 high-dependency people, ranging in age from five to 25 and all branded 'mentally unfit' live in the institution. Conditions are badly affected by the lack of funds.
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