Spotlight Award 2024

World Report Award | Documenting Humanity
Spotlight Award 2024 Shortlist

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Andrea Agostini

Italy

Water Is an Act of Faith

The departure of the train to Thailand at Thanaleng Train Station in Vientiane Capital. This train line is part of the Lao-Thai railway, which comprises a 3.5km railway line between Thanalaeng Station in Laos across the border to Nong Khai province in Thailand via the Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge. This line will eventually link up with the Laos-China railway. Laos, October 2023.

Nicholas Bosoni

Italy

A Corridor Waved in Silk

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Annalaura Cattelan

Italy

Dreaming of Zeno

The fish houses project (Sai-Nang) in Tom Thong Yai bay. Sai-Nang are built using bamboo sticks and palm leaves.
The local community started this project 15 ears ago in order to avoid the use of destructive fishing practices in the bay, preserving
its environment. The palm leaves around the bamboo sticks provide a safe place that fish can use as shelter for breeding groung
and consequently increase the fish population in the bay. Since the project has started they use to build 100 to 500 fish houses per year.
Due to the natural decomposition of the bamboo and the palm leaves, the fish houses has to be replaced once a year.
Since the beginning of the project, the fish population (especially tuna, black pomfret, grouper, mackarel) increased noticeably in the bay.

Giacomo d’Orlando

Italy

Symbiosis

04/12/2018 - El Coca, Orellana Province in Ecuador
Five-year-old Genesis, plays amid Petroecuador’s oil pipes (formerly Texaco’s), running just a few meters away from her home in the outskirts of El Coca in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Genesis’ mother, Monica, has cancer, and one of her two other children was born with a congenital disease. Monica says that some nights the racket made by the oil pumping is unbearable. She also claims that five years ago, downstream, these pipes were responsible for an oil spill, and yet, Petroecuador’s staff deny this by assuring everyone these are just water pipes.
Picture taken with consent of the Genesis’ mother, Monica, while accompanying a member of the Union of People Affected by Texaco’s Oil Operations (UDAPT) during a medical round of her patients.

Nicola “Ókin” Frioli

Italy

Piatsaw: The Resistance of the Indigenous Nations of Ecuadorian Amazon

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Mario Heller

Switzerland

Lady Low Rider

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Louis Malecek

France

From Our Chains We Will Forge the Metal to Brandish the Sword of Freedom

[Syuldyukar, Iakoutie, Russie]
Suite la rupture des barrages du producteur de diamants Alrosa en aot 2018, des eaux pollues ont coul dans les rivires Irelyakh, Malaya Botuobiya et Vilyui, dpassant de 20 fois la concentration autorise de Ç matires en suspension È. Depuis, certaines espces rares de poisson, comme le tamen, ont presque disparues. Ë Syuldyukar, ce n'est que 3 ans plus tard que le gouvernement a mis en place des installations de traitement de l'eau, mais les habitants trouvent que cette eau est trop strile et n'a Ç aucun got, ni lments bnfiques pour la sant È. L'eau aux abords de Syuldyukar n'a jamais retrouv sa transparence.

Natalya Saprunova

France

“The Evenki People: Custodians of the Resources of Yakutia”

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Robin Schwartz

USA

Rescued Foxes Find Refuge in Minnesota

Angela Michael (67) (center), an anti-abortion activist and former nurse, performs ultrasounds in a recreational vehicle transformed into a small clinic outside the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois. Michael and her husband park their RV outside of the abortion clinic nearly every day to dissuade patients from seeking abortions. They offer diapers and other supplies instead. Years earlier, she convinced Ashley Miller (29) (right) not to have an abortion. Ashley is now five weeks into her 4th pregnancy, likely with twins. She had a miscarriage a few months before after being beaten by her partner, a local police officer. In the first nine months after the Supreme Court's ruling, Illinois saw an increase of 12,400 abortions from the previous year as people traveled there from states with bans, according to the Society of Family Planning. The Michaels are concerned about this surge. Granite City, Illinois, USA, 19.07.2022

(The scene was not staged; permission was granted by Angela and Ashley, her daughter's legal guardian.)

Kasia Strek

Poland

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