Best photography in magazines and books
Award Year: 1996
Award Name: The Olivier Rebbot Award 1996
Recipient: Yunghi Kim
Affiliation: Contact Press Images/Time/U.S. News & World Report
Honored Work: “The Forgotten Comfort Women of Korea”
In the months after Kim’s touching photos of former Korean sex slaves known as “comfort women” were published, first in the Asian edition of Time, then in U.S. News, Japan finally apologized to the women and offered reparations. Kim’s images capture the sadness and loneliness of the now elderly women, many of whom have suffered illness as a result of their abuse and have been ostracized in their own country.
Citations for Excellence:
Giorgia Fiorio
Contact Press Images for Life
“French Foreign Legion”
James Nachtwey
TIME
“Death of a City: Kabul, Afghanistan”