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Unicef ​​Germany selects Photo of the Year 2021

2021-12-21T12:36:37.089Z


Unicef ​​Germany selects Photo of the Year 2021 Created: 12/21/2021, 1:28 PM A girl stands in front of the remains of her tea shop, which has been completely destroyed by the sea on Namkhana Island. The photo by photographer Supratim Bhattacharjee received first prize in the international competition Unicef ​​Photo of the Year 2021 of the UN Children's Fund Unicef. © Supratim Bhattacharjee, Indi


Unicef ​​Germany selects Photo of the Year 2021

Created: 12/21/2021, 1:28 PM

A girl stands in front of the remains of her tea shop, which has been completely destroyed by the sea on Namkhana Island.

The photo by photographer Supratim Bhattacharjee received first prize in the international competition Unicef ​​Photo of the Year 2021 of the UN Children's Fund Unicef.

© Supratim Bhattacharjee, India / UNICEF / dpa

Climate change, corona and war: The United Nations Children's Fund has awarded prizes to photos and photo reports - and in doing so, the focus has been on the suffering of children.

Cologne / Berlin - The Unicef ​​photo of the year 2021 focuses on the suffering of children in the face of climate change.

A distraught girl in India literally stands in front of the ruins of her existence and looks uncertainly into the camera.

A dark sky and whipped masses of water can be seen in the background.

The United Nations Children's Fund announced on Tuesday in Cologne that the Indian photographer Supratim Bhattacharjee had discovered the eleven-year-old child "wandering hopelessly" one day after a flood disaster.

"A tropical cyclone has churned up the water masses in the Ganges Delta," Unicef ​​explained the background.

“Tore away what eleven-year-old Pallavi Paduya used to try to help her family of five survive.

She ran a small tea bar in her parents' house on Namkhana Island.

Because Pallavi's father, a truck driver, doesn't bring home the equivalent of 100 euros a month. ”The storm over West Bengal smashed the wood and clay construction and swept away the tin roof.

The photo of the girl illustrates the "struggle for survival of children in the face of increasing environmental degradation and climate change," according to the organization.

In Asia and Africa, according to Unicef ​​estimates, around 530 million children grow up in flood regions.

Third prize goes to a photo by photographer Younes Mohammad showing Salman Farman Saleh with his two children.

Salman Farman Saleh was wounded in December 2014 while fighting ISIS in Makhmour.

When he was cleaning a minefield, a mine exploded nearby.

© Younes Mohammad, Iraq / (MEI Agency) / UNICEF / dpa

“The fact that entire villages are washed away, islands gradually sink, and the way to school can lead through knee-high water is increasingly part of the painful experience of the people in the Sundarbans, a coastal region of India and Bangladesh, translated as" beautiful forest ". Most of the residents make their living here from fishing for fish and shrimp, but the ongoing destruction of the mangrove forests, the rise in sea levels and the salinisation of former freshwater areas are a growing threat. And extreme weather events caused by climate change are not only accumulating here. "

“The girl's gaze on the Unicef ​​photo of 2021 cannot leave anyone unmoved,” said patron Elke Büdenbender, wife of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

“With her calm and her bravery in the midst of a completely desperate situation, she lets us feel what environmental degradation and climate change mean for children and young people.

The winning picture challenges us to think about the consequences of our way of life and to change them. "

The second prize in the Unicef ​​competition goes to a photo by photographer Sourav Das.

The picture shows schoolchildren in India sitting on a wall at a distance and wearing mouth and nose protection while teaching outdoors during the corona pandemic.

© Sourav Das, India / UNICEF / dpa

"For many girls and boys, the year 2021 was like the continuation of a dark disaster film," added Peter-Matthias Gaede, Deputy Chairman of Unicef ​​Germany.

"The climate crisis, corona pandemic, wars and catastrophes are brewing into a" perfect storm "that hits children from poor families with full force.

We have to strengthen their resilience so that they can withstand this threat. "

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Once a year, Unicef ​​Germany awards this award to photos and photo reports that document the personality and living conditions of children in an outstanding way.

The prize was awarded for the 22nd time.

dpa

Source: merkur

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