Sports, 2nd prize
Seamus Murphy
Corbis Saba for Independent Magazine
Corbis Saba for Independent Magazine
01 May, 2000
An athlete runs up the terraces of the national stadium. Athletes of the Sierra Leone Olympic squad work to qualify for the Sydney Games. Sierra Leone first attended the Olympics in 1968, but is yet to win any medals. Many of the hopefuls trained and slept in the national stadium in Freetown, with only one cold-water tap and no electricity.
Seamus Murphy
Seamus Murphy's work as a photojournalist has taken him on frequent assignments to Afghanistan, but also across the world, from Iran, the Palestinian territories and Iraq, to Ken...
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