1996 Photo Contest, Spot News, 2nd prize
Photographer

Paul Lowe

Magnum Photos for Newsweek

01 April, 1995

Original caption from World Press Photo (1996)

Orphaned children are watched over by a soldier. Violence had erupted anew when Tutsi soldiers of the Rwandan army massacred Hutus in a refugee camp. Plans to close the camp went badly wrong, and in the confusion the soldiers opened fire. The number of casualties, put at 2,000 by the media, was contested by the government who insisted no more than 300 were killed.

 

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Through a Glass Darkly, by Robert Godden, published on Witness in September 2017
How should vulnerable children be represented in the media? Are we guilty of applying different ethical standards dependent on the race, ethnicity, nationality, location, gender or class of the child? Robert Godden explores these questions and provides guidelines for photojournalists and organizations. 

What’s the Point of Conflict Photography?, by Lauren Welsh, published on Witness in January 2020
Why take and distribute images of conflict? Lauren Walsh addresses this question and interviews photographers who have covered conflicting issues.
 

About the photographer

Paul Lowe

Paul Lowe is a senior lecturer in photography and an award-winning photographer. Since 2004, Paul has been the overall course director of the Masters program in Photojournalism a...

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