Honorable Mentions
by Giorgio Bianchi/ Ukraine
Right after the outbreak of the conflict in Donbass, Spartaco left his job and the house where he was living with his mother to enlist as a volunteer in the ranks of the pro-Russian militias. Convinced he had nothing to lose, ideologically very motivated and relying on his previous military training...
by Aleksandra Dynas/ Uganda
In Kampala, Uganda, there are more than 10,000 children living on the streets. To get money for food, they work in building demolition, unloading trucks, or helping to sell food. The youngest children work collecting plastic bottles or scrap metal. Street children often lack access to clean...
by Saud A Faisal/ Bangladesh
Bangladesh is the worst victim of global climate change, hence a huge population faces floods every year. People move to the nearest highland to take temporary shelter, keeping their home behind in the flash floods. Until the water reaches above their knees, they try to remain in their home with a hope of the water...
by Sara B. May/ Sierra Leone
With its insidious onset in May of 2014, the Ebola epidemic proceeded to ravage Sierra Leone for nearly two years, leading to the deaths of nearly 4,000 people. In December 2014, Francis Yorpoi lost both parents--his mother, a homemaker, and his father, a photographer--within two weeks...