Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books
AWARD YEAR: 2008
AWARD NAME: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2008
RECIPIENT: Stephanie Sinclair
AFFILIATION: The New York Times Magazine
HONORED WORK: “A Cutting Tradition: Inside a Female Circumcision Ceremony for Young Muslim Girls”
Stephanie Sinclair’s jarring and moving photographic essay on the tradition of young female circumcision in Muslim culture is a series of pictures that are hard to forget. In Bandung, Indonesia, Sinclair has documented this religious tradition by gaining unprecedented access to these normally closed ceremonies. It is precisely this kind of enterprising and enlightening photojournalism that serves to show us the world as it is, and challenges us to question the boundaries of religious faith and fundamental human rights.
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