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Honorable Mention
Title:The Rohingya Refugee Crisis (5)
A devastated old man who claims that Burmese soldiers burned his son alive. So far 570,000 Rohingya refugees reached the relative safety of the Bangladesh border.
Biography:
Benjamin Haselberger was born in 1973 in Germany.
In 1997, before starting his photographic studies at University of Essen-Duisburg, his eye was drawn to concentration camps in Germany and Poland, which he extensively worked on while being an intern at VISUM Photo Agency.
Then he worked in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma, before becoming a press photographer intern at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2000.
Finishing his 2nd studies at FAS-Berlin until 2006, he worked in Poland, postwar Bosnia, and Cambodia. He relocated to Bangkok in 2010 and in 2016 joined Redux Pictures. |
