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World Understanding Award
Robin Hammond, Freelance for Panos Pictures
New Zealand-born freelance photojournalist Robin Hammond received the World Understanding Award for his series on the neglect and abuse of the mentally ill in African countries plagued by war, corruption and natural disasters. Over two years, Hammond traveled to nine countries to document the impact of scarce resources and cultural stigmas on mental patients living in horrific conditions, "crouching in the dark corners of church basements, chained to beds in crumbling hospitals, tethered to sticks in dust blown tent cities, locked away behind the rusted bars of prisons." |