Each year, UNICEF Germany has awarded the “UNICEF Photo of the Year Award” to photos and photo series that best depict the personality and living conditions of children worldwide in an outstanding manner. Here are the winners 2023.
They have no helmets, gloves, or safety glasses when crawling a hundred meters or more into the mountains of Chinarak. There are also no measuring devices for toxic gases. The supporting beams in the tunnels are makeshift, the air is heavy, the ground treacherous. And some of the boys who mine coal in the mountains north of Kabul for the equivalent of a few euros a day are only ten years old.
They were once alone with their reindeer herds in the tundra and forests of Yakutia, in north-eastern Siberia. Back then, Moscow was not important to the indigenous Evenki people. Then came the geologists and prospectors in search of gold, diamonds, and other abundant mineral resources. And finally came the lumberjacks. The lives of the Evenki people have changed considerably since then.
1st Prize
Patryk Jaracz, Poland
Ukraine: Under the dark clouds of war
Five-year-old Alina is practicing riding her bike, followed by her friends. A moment of lightheartedness in a meadow somewhere in the northwest of Ukraine, that banishes the dark clouds of misery, for a while at least. The night before, a drone strike set fire to an oil depot nearby. This time it was just an oil depot, not a residential building, not a hospital, not a school.
2nd Prize
Oliver Weiken
Afghanistan - In the holes of Chinarak
3rd Prize
Natalya Saprunova
Russia - The children from the great cold forest
For the full article (in English), including more photographs, click here on the website of UNICEF Germany
For additional information, including an interview with the winning photographer, Patryk Jaracz, click here .
What gorgeous photos, both horrifying and edifying! Bravo to UNICEF Germany for keeping up this tradition. I will share this link with family and friends.
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