2013 Photo Contest, Staged Portraits, 3rd prize

Zuzia

Photographer

Anna Bedyńska

Gazeta Wyborcza

27 October, 2012

Zuzia is a girl with albinism, and attends a school for partially sighted children in Warsaw. She dreams of meeting someone like herself.

About the photographer

Anna Bedyńska

Anna Bedyńska is a documentary photographer living, working and exhibiting, in the last ten years, in Warsaw, Moscow, Tokyo and Bucharest. She turns her camera toward those who a...

Background story

Warsaw, Poland

Zuzia is a girl with albinism, and attends a school for partially sighted children in Warsaw. She dreams of meeting someone like herself.

Albinism is caused by a recessive gene (passed to a child by both parents) that deprives the skin, hair, and eyes of pigment. This can cause serious eye problems.

Because pigment plays a role in protecting the skin from ultraviolet radiation, people with albinism are highly susceptible to the adverse effects of overexposure to sunlight.

Technical information

Shutter Speed
1/125 sec
Focal length
50 mm
F-Stop
7.1
ISO
100
Camera
Canon EOS 5D Mark II

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