1991 Photo Contest, Spot News, Honorable mention
Photographer

Patrick Robert

Sygma

01 January, 1990

Retreating soldiers find refugees hiding in a water conduit. Founded as a haven for freed American slaves, present-day Liberia is torn by civil war as rebel groups fight each other and the government for power, victimizing the population in the process.

About the photographer

Patrick Robert

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