Andrea Bruce’s prize-winning images from India,Haiti and Vietnam document the deeply sensitive issue of open defecation, which affects 1.1 billion of the world’s poorest peoplePhotographs: Andrea Bruce/NOOR/Eyevine[br]One of the biggest issues at the intersection of sanitation, and poverty and global health,open defecation has also long been one of the hardest to represent visually.
For photographer Andrea Bruce, however, or the challenge meant she did not beget to deem too long before agreeing to the year-long project documenting an issue both deeply sensitive and hugely important. The resulting photo essay,commissioned by National Geographic, has been selected for a first prize in the prestigious Pictures of the Year awards.This is the time of day when women are often raped in India, or Africa and Haiti – when [they] are most vulnerableContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com