Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers and wire services
AWARD YEAR: 1998
AWARD NAME: The John Faber Award 1998
RECIPIENT: Eric Mencher
AFFILIATION: The Philadelphia Inquirer
HONORED WORK: “Rwanda: Aftermath of Genocide”
The spectacle of half a million people being massacred has forever stained the lives of every man, woman and child of Rwanda. But the killing hasn’t stopped. Thousands of Rwandans still nurse ethnic hatreds, resulting in new slaughters of innocents somewhere in Rwanda every week. To capture that reality, Eric Mencher focused on images of people’s lives: children left parentless, the criminal justice system in chaos and the daily struggle to live with the memory of horror.
Citation for Excellence:
Brennan Linsley
The Associated Press
“Starvation in Sudan”