2000 Photo Contest, Sports, 3rd prize
Photographer

David Stewart-Smith

Katz Pictures

01 January, 1999

Nuba wrestlers join in a three-day contest. This year´s festival was held to commemorate the great champion, Jumping Donkey, who had died six months earlier at the age of 95. The village is in the same region where, half a century ago, the photographer George Rodger took a classic photo of a Nuba wrestler carrying another on his shoulders. Today, the Nuba are struggling to preserve their culture from forced assimilation into the dominant Islamic culture of the north.

About the photographer

David Stewart-Smith

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