Alixandra Fazzina Wins $100,000 from UNHCR
British photojournalist Alixandra Fazzina has won the $100,000 Nansen Refugee Award, the United Nations High Commissioner announced today. The award is given annually to an individual or organization in acknowledgement of outstanding work on behalf of refugees. The recipient can donate the $100,000 prize to the cause of his or her choice.
Fazzina, who recently became a member of the NOOR photo agency, has spent the last ten years documenting humanitarian crises around the world, including the suffering of land mine victims in Kosovo, the use of rape in Sierra Leone and child abuse by militias in Congo and Uganda. Her most recent work explores the flight of refugees from Somalia to the Arabian Peninsula and smuggling in the Gulf of Aden, which was published in the book A Million Shillings: Escape From Somalia.
--Eli Meixler
Related story:
Agency News: Ed Kashi Joins VII, Alixandra Fazzina Joins NOOR