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> Date: December 23, 2009 2:11:32 PM EST
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> Zoriah Wins Grand Prize, PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Award for
> Photography - Famine in Kenya
> Posted: 22 Dec 2009 11:12 AM PST
> I am happy to announce that I have recently won the grand prize in
> the PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards for my work documenting the
> Kenian Famine. For those of you that are not yet aware of
> PhotoPhilanthropy please follow the link and enjoy all the wonderful
> work they showcase. I usually do not spend my time and money
> entering contests, but since PhotoPhilanthropy does not charge
> photographers to enter photographs and has a really wonderful
> mission statement, it was the one and only contest I entered in this
> year.
> PhotoPhilanthropy received 219 photo stories from 187 photographers
> residing in 30 countries around the world. “(Zoriah’s) work stood
> out for its beauty, story telling and image quality. Each and every
> one of (his) photos came together to beautifully capture the essence
> of the story and depict the subject in a way that is honest and
> inspirational.”
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> From Zoriah:
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> I would like to thank all of the refugees who are pictured in this
> photo series, and the millions who are not. I hope this work will
> do something to alleviate your suffering or prevent these situations
> from happening to others in the future. My thanks to the IRC for
> their work to help mitigate the suffering of refugees and for
> granting me access and logistical support to do my work in their
> camps.
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> Suffering from drought and famine, a mother holds her severely
> malnourished infant during treatment in the IRC’s Kakuma Main Hospital
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> Refugees reach for one of the few remaining food aid vouchers
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> IRC staff process food aid for distribution to hungry refugees.
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> A malnourished child is measured in a make-shift, wooden measuring
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> Workers mix grains and oil, a food staple given in emergency
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> Despite the IRC’s best efforts and with a limited budget, there is
> often not enough food to go around and refugees must buy rice from
> local shops who divide large bags of it into small, daily portions
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> An IRC staff member helps a mother lower her baby into a weighing
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> A young boy cries in front of a feeding center as food rations are
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> A refugee walks through an IRC Camp during an unexpected rain storm
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> Grass breaks through the dry, cracked earth after the regions first
> rainstorm in several months, giving hope to refugees and IRC staff
> that better times will come.
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