News Feature, 2nd prize
Eddie Adams
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
01 January, 1981
Mickey Hays (from Texas) and Fransie Geringer (from South Africa) meet at a hotel room in Disneyland. Both suffer from progeria, a rare disease that causes children to age the equivalent of 10 years every year. They rarely live past the age of 14. Mickey eventually died on 30 June 1992, aged 20, one of the longest survivors of the disease. He brought worldwide attention to progeria when in 1981 he met Fransie Geringer from South Africa, who suffered from the same affliction. In 1985, he played a space alien in the film The Aurora Encounter, and in 1987 he made an appearance in Kirby Dick's documentary I Am Not A Freak. Fransie died in 1986, aged 16 years.
Eddie Adams
The photographic career of American photojournalist Eddie Adams (New Kensington, Pennsylvania 1933 - New York City 2004) spanned 45 years, in which he covered every possible subj...
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