WORLD PRESS PHOTO

The photos chosen by our group were the following ones:

2021 Photo Contest, Nature, Stories, 3rd Prize

Photographer: Luis Tato

Turkana former Lochom Ekiru(65) A desert locust belonging to a massive

assesses the severe damage of this swarm sits on a tree branch in a
maize crops after swarms of desert remote grazing area near Archers Post
locusts ravaged them, in Kalemngorok, ,2 April.
Turkana County, 3 June.

In early 2020, Kenya experienced its worst infestation of desert locusts in 70 years.
Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) are potentially the most destructive of the
locust pests, as swarms can fly rapidly across great distances, A single swarm can
contain between 40 and 80 million locusts per square kilometer and each locust can
eat its weight in plants each day. Locusts produce two to five generations a year,
depending on environmental conditions. Prolonged wet weather encourages
breeding and produces large swarms that travel in search of food, devastating
farmland.

2021 Photo Contest, Contemporary Issues, Singles, 1st Prize

 Photographer: Pablo Tosco

Fatima and her son prepare a fishing net on a boat in Khor Omeira bay, Yemen.

Fatima has nine children. In order to provide for them, she makes a living from
fishing. Although her village was devastated by armed conflict in Yemen, Fatima
returned to resume her livelihood, buying a boat with money she earned from selling
fish.

The conflict—between Houthi Shia Muslim rebels and a Sunni Arab coalition led by
Saudi Arabia—dates from 2014, and has led to what UNICEF has termed the world’s
largest humanitarian crisis. Some 20.1 million people required food assistance at the
beginning of 2020, with approximately 80 percent of the population relying on
humanitarian aid. A Saudi coalition blockade on Yemen between 2015 and 2017
imposed import restrictions on food, medicines, and fuel. Resulting shortages
exacerbated the humanitarian crisis. In many cases, conditions of near-famine were
caused not so much by the unavailability of food, but because it became
unaffordable, priced out of reach to most Yemenis by import restrictions, soaring
transport costs due to fuel scarcity, a collapsing currency, and other man-made
supply disruptions. In 2020 conflict intensified, and the situation was made worse by
unprecedented heavy rainfall, which made some 300,000 people homeless, locust
infestations that destroyed crops, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021 Photo Contest, Nature, Stories, 2nd Prize

Photographer: Ezra Acayan
 Motorcyclists cross a bridge partially Trees stand covered in volcanic ash,
blocked by ash-laden trees after the near Taal Volcano, Batangas, 14
Volcano eruption, in the municipality of January.
Laure, Batangas, 14 January.

Taal Volcano, in Batangas province, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, began
erupting on 12 January, spewing ash up to 14 kilometers into the air. The volcano
generated ashfalls and volcanic thunderstorms, forcing evacuations from the
surrounding area. The eruption progressed into a magmatic eruption, characterized
by a lava fountain with thunder and lightning. According to the Department of Social
Welfare and Development,nearly 750,000 people were affected by the eruption.

Why did we choose these pictures?

- We chose these pictures, because they were the images that attracted us the
most and that’s because these are matters that call our attention about the
situations that are taking place in the world. The exhibition that we were
invited to witness our English class in October is named by “World Press
Photo”, consists of a competition of photographers in which they demonstrate
their most distinct projects based on the world’s problems at the moment in
different countries.

Carolina Almeida , Raquel Rocha, Xiaowen He (Mimi), 9ºB