Capturing the Unseen: Winners of Our Photographic Competition Revealed
We are delighted to announce the winning images in our photographic competition.
First prize was awarded to cinematographer and photographer Adam Browne from New Zealand for his powerful image ‘Hiding’, a photograph of a young girl in the settlements outside Goroka, Papua New Guinea, whose mother, father, and grandmother have been accused of sorcery
Second prize was awarded to British documentary photographer Joe Wood, for an intimate image from the Truth and Rights series, which shows a Nepali witch doctor with a client.
Third prize was awarded for ‘Picking pebbles’, taken by Bawa Abdulai Yakuba of the Rural Women & Youth Empowerment for Development Agency (RUWYEDA). It shows a group of women alleged to be witches, who live in a witch camp in the Northern Region of Ghana.
The image ‘Honouring New England’s First Witch Trial Victim, Alice Young’ by Joshua Hutchinson from the organization End Witch Hunts was Highly Commended.
These images and others contributed by photographers internationally have been curated into a powerful exhibition, which aims to make the issues associated with accusations of witchcraft and associated harmful practices visible. The exhibition ‘Witch Hunts in the 21st Century: A Human Rights Catastrophe’, will be launched in the Peter Scott Gallery at Lancaster University on Thursday 19th September 2024 to coincide with the International Conference on Witchcraft and Human Rights, past, present, future: Implementing UN Resolution 47/8. The exhibition will then travel to several locations internationally, including in Australia, India, Nigeria, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea and the USA. It is funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council Impact Acceleration Account awarded to Professor Charlotte Baker (Lancaster University) and a grant from the African-Caribbean Institute led by Professor Norman Miller.
