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Black Picture, 1st prize

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand. A mother and child in a refugee camp in Thailand.

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand.

Refugees in a camp reach out through barbed wire to buy basic supplies from a black market vendor.

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand. Children play in the refugee camp Sa Kaew.

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand. Tears on the face of a sick child in one of the crowded refugee camps in Thailand.

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand.

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand. Inside a refugee camp in Thailand, Cambodian refugees have to wait for hours to get their water and food rations.

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand. A starving Cambodian baby in a refugee camp in Thailand.

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand.

November 01, 1979

Cambodians fleeing to Thailand. A child near death is lit by the late afternoon sun at the intensive feeding unit in the Khao I-Dang camp.

November 01, 1979

Mud fills a crowded Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand.

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General News,1st prize

Richard Leman Olsenius

Minneapolis Tribune

1980 Photo Contest, Black Picture, 1st prize
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Richard Leman Olsenius

Minneapolis Tribune

01 November, 1979

Mud fills a crowded Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand.

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