Robin Hammond Wins 2014 POYi Community Awareness Award

February 17, 2014 Marco | Editor

By David Walker

©Robin Hammond

Photographer Robin Hammond has won the 2014 World Understanding Award at the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition for “Condemned,” his widely acclaimed project about the neglect and mistreatment of the mentally ill in African countries ravaged by war and natural disaster.

The World Understanding Award is a category of POYi’s Reportage Division, which is open to freelance and agency photographers. Other categories and first place winners in the Reportage Division so far include:

Science & Natural History: Michael “Nick” Nichols, for an image of a black-maned lion on the Serengeti that he photographed …read more

Via: PDN Pulse

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