The Olivier Rebbot Award 2006

Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books

AWARD YEAR: 2006

AWARD NAME: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2006

RECIPIENT: Q. Sakamaki

AFFILIATION: Redux – Newsweek

HONORED WORK: “Sri Lanka:War Without End”

The judges all agreed that Sakamaki’s comprehensive visual report of the civil war in Sri Lanka, which includes work with both Tamil and Sri Lankan fighters as well as powerfully cathartic images of civilian casualties and refugees, told the most poignant story in the competition. By defining the brutal contours of the conflict, Sakamaki has evoked the emotional and deadly trauma of a savage civil war that has raged for nearly 25 years and has all but been forgotten by the outside world.

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