Photojournalism: 1st Place Winner 2017 (professional)
Under the rainstorm - Rohingya's exodus by Erberto Zani (Italy)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Rohingya's exodus_Bangladesh, Cox's Baxar, Palangkhali's area: 17th October, more than 15.000 Rohingya, after crossed border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, trying to escape from violence and death perpetrate by Myanmar's soldiers. Thousand refugees waited their turn to receive food and medicine on small tongues of sand in the rice fields, under a heavy cold rainstorm.
AUTHOR
Erberto Zani is an Italian freelance photojournalist based between Parma (Italy) and Basel (Switzerland). Since 2008 he focused on capturing people’s daily life, strength in their environments. His work documents social and environmental issues, systemic inequalities, cultural traditions.
His photo has been published on BBC Newsround, Cnn Travel, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Financial Times, Lonely Planet, The Economist, The Times, among others.
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