General News, 3rd prize
Olivier Laban-Mattei
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
17 May, 2008
A family in the debris of their house near Yangon. Cyclone Nargis hit southern Burma (Myanmar) on May 2, wiping away entire villages and flooding swathes of land, in the country's worst natural disaster in recorded history. Many areas were extremely isolated, reachable only by boat. Local relief efforts were slow in starting, and the Burmese authorities were at first resistant to help from outside.
Olivier Laban-Mattei
French photojournalist and Agence France Presse (AFP) Paris photo staff member, Olivier Laban-Mattei was born in 1977 and grew up in Paris, where he studied geography and sociolo...
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