A photo of crosses from which girls’ dresses hang, placed near a Canadian “boarding school” where the remains of 215 indigenous children were found last year, won the 2022 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday.
The image captured by Edmonton-based documentary photographer Amber Bracken is “a calm moment of reflection … on the history of not only colonization in Canada, but throughout the world,” said juror Rena. Effendi.
On the left of the photo, published by the New York Times, girls’ red and ocher dresses are hung from crossroads next to a highway in Kamloops, a small city in British Columbia.
On the left, a rainbow ends its curve near the place where the remains were discovered, at the headquarters of the “boarding school”, created a century ago to forcibly assimilate the indigenous population.
This image “inspires a kind of sensory reaction,” declared a jury.
This discovery was the first in a series that forced Canadians to confront their colonial past. Investigations and search work are currently being carried out in many former boarding schools for natives in the country.
Authorities estimate that more than 4,000 children could be in unidentified burial mounds or graves.
Other award-winning photographs this year also highlight the visibility of indigenous communities around the world.
Australian documentary filmmaker Matthew Abbott won first prize in the “Story of the Year” category with a series of images showing how the native people of Nawarddeken in the remote Arnhem Territory used fire as an effective land management tool against climate change. climate.
Through a practice called “cold burning,” indigenous people light small fires during the cool season, burning highly flammable undergrowth and bushland, helping to prevent bushfires, which have devastated an Australia hit by a surge. of heat waves.
The winners receive a reward of 6,000 euros (about $6,500) and their work will be exhibited from April 15 in Amsterdam before being shown around the world. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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