2022 Global Prize

Recipient: Masood Sarwer

Title: The Endless Dance of Erosion

Description: ”Last week my wife died due to cardiac arrest and the following week we started dismantling our house when we heard the Ganges started eroding the land again.” - Nurul Islam, 80 years old -pictured in chair

Location: Malda, West Bengal, India

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ABOUT THE 2022
GLOBAL PRIZE RECIPIENT

Congratulations to Marood Sarwer who has been named the 2022 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Recipient. Marood’s photo “The Endless Dance of Erosion” captures both the environmental and human costs of the escalating climate crisis in West Bengal India.

Tthe United Nations published the exhibition globally on UN.org.

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2022 GLOBAL PRIZE TOP 10 FINALISTS

Title: Sincerely. Tendrara

Description: Yamina Kotit shields her children from the strong winds which are sweeping the area, causing desertification and impacting her family's nomadic way of life.

Location: Tendrara, Morocco

Date: September 2021

Photographer: Yzza Slaoui
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Title: The border between the sands and the village

Description: The border between Iran's sands and villages is decreasing every day. A number of villages are filled with sand and deserted.

Location: Sabzevar, Iran

Date: August 2021

Photographer: Hadi Dehghanpour
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Title: Daily struggles due to climate change

Description: Due to a recent flash flood, a family is finding it difficult to both walk on the flooded road as well as move their cart.

Location: Kolkata, India

Date: July 2021

Photographer: Kuntal Kumar Roy
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Title: Recovering

Description: Coastal forests, especially mangroves, play a vital role in protecting the lives of vulnerable communities from storm surge due to the impacts of climate change.

Location: Quang Ngai, Vietnam

Date: October 2021

Photographer: Alex Cao
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Title: Fighting the desert

Description: Women work during a sandstorm in a garden being stolen by drought.

Location: Nouakchott, Mauritania

Date: June 2022

Photographer: Jose Manuel Moya (Chema Moya)
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Title: A Dinka girl’s sinking village

Description: A girl surveys her submerged home.

Location: Panyagor in Twic East, South Sudan

Date: January 2022

Photographer: Mark Naftalin
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Title: The unthinkable rage to exist

Description: An unusually fierce cyclone “Batsirai” destroyed a large part of the coastal town of Mananjary.

Location: Mananjary, Madagascar

Date: March 2022

Photographer: Christian Barbe
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Title: A threat for the green world

Description: In place of a green forest, a garbage dump rises.

Location: Hpa-an, Myanmar

Date: May 2022

Photographer: Aung Chan Thar
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Title: Climate crisis

Description: A mother brings her children to safety in floodwater that stranded 6 million people and killed 41.

Location: Sylhet, Bangladesh

Date: June 2022

Photographer: Zakir Hossain
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Title: High temperature red-alert

Description: An 88-year-old man gazes at his TV screen showing a high temperature red-alert that has been going on for 70 days – a first for him.

Location: Anhui, China

Date: August 2022

Photographer: Chengbin Zhang
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UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL EXHIBIT

The 2022 Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Recipient, Top 10 Finalists and 21 Honorable Mentions currently have their work exhibited globally by the United Nations on UN.org and in person at the United Nations Headquarters outside the General Assembly in New York City from December 8th - January 3rd.

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2022 GLOBAL PRIZE HONORABLE MENTIONS

Title: Palm oil plantation

Description: Deprived of forests, indigenous peoples live on the edge of the rainforest.

Location: Sinan, South Korea

Date: September 2021

Photographer: Elrea Song
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Title: Environmental injustice
Description: Environmental discrimination in a township.

Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa

Date: July, 2022

Photographer: Luke Kammies
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Title: Fish scale seller

Description: Due to river erosion, a woman earns $1 USD a day selling fish scales.

Location: Gazipur, Bangladesh

Date: Unknown

Photographer: Abdullah Al Mahfuz
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Title: People affected by floods

Description: The Ghatal area is especially vulnerable to repeated floods.

Location: West Bengal, India

Date: September 2022

Photographer: Sudipta Chakraborty
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Title: The last house

Description: Ghulam Mohammad, a 56-year-old man lost his entire family in a flood and now lives in Herat, at an internally displaced camp.

Location: Herat, Afghanistan

Date: Unknown

Photographer: Sayed Habib Bidell
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Title: Clean energy source

Description: Renewable energy reduces the impacts of climate change.

Location: Tỉnh Bac Liêu Vietnam

Date: November 2021

Photographer: Le Thanh Ngon
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Title: Young volunteer

Description: A young volunteer delivers oxygen to people in need.

Location: Hpa-an, Myanmar

Date: August 2021

Photographer: Aung Chan Thar
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Title: Happy House

Description: Despite pollution that affects Uncle Da’s home in a polluted river, he still fashions his house into a “happy heart.”

Location: Quang Ngai, Vietnam

Date: October 2021

Photographer: Alex Cao
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Title: Playing on the overflowing embankment

Description: Children playing on a sea embankment that overflowed due to tidal waves and flooded residential areas in the Muara Baru area.

Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Date: August 2022

Photographer: Arie Basuki
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Title: Washing day

Description: In order to save water at home, a woman washes her clothes by the river.

Location: MyinTwin Village, Myanmar

Date: January 2022

Photographer: Si Thu Ye Myint
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Title: Watermelon field

Description: Growing watermelon in a dry riverbed is difficult with sudden rain and rising waters.

Location: Mekhliganj, India

Date: February 2022

Photographer: Uttam Kamati
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Title: Silêncio

Description: A man watches as people search for the body of his family member, killed in a landslide in the city of Petrópolis, a tragedy that killed more than 200 people.

Location: Petrópolis, Brasil

Date: February 2022

Photographer: Mariana Rocha
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Title: Looking for plastic

Description: Looking for plastic materials to recycle in polluted water.

Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Date: April 2022

Photographer: Saiful Islam
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Title: Enlightening education

Description: Without electricity, children study using kerosene lamps during a class conducted after sunset.

Location: Asansol, India

Date: May 2022

Photographer: Sourav Das
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Title: Garbage carpet

Description: An employee of the Manaus City Hall works to remove a large amount of garbage accumulated by the heavy rains in the stream of the São Jorge neighborhood.

Location: Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Date: June 2022

Photographer: Suamy Beydoun
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Title: Mother earth

Description: A child plants a tree to help save Mother Earth.

Location: Philippines

Date: June 2022

Photographer: Jamel Rullamas
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Title: Worried mother

Description: A mother is worried about her child as flood water begins to enter her home. Location: Chittagong, Bangladesh

Date: June 2022

Photographer: Sanchayan Chowdhury
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Title: The storm is coming to swallow

Description: A man is trying to protect his buns from the storm, one example of a livelihood in a low-lying area of the world that is drowning due to climate change.

Location: Sunamganj, Bangladesh

Date: July 2022

Photographer: Abdur Rahman Nur
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Title: Neighbors fighting the fire

Description: Neighbors fighting the fire a few meters from their homes in the village of Froxan in one of the most virulent forest fires in Spain.

Location: Froxan, Spain

Date: July 2022

Photographer: Adra Pallón
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Title: Firefighters fighting forest fire

Description: Firefighters fighting the forest fire in one of the most devastating fires in Spain this year in Folgoso do Courel.

Location: Folgoso do Courel, Spain

Date: July 2022

Photographer: Adra Pallón
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Title: Planting mangrove trees

Description: Environmental volunteers work together to plant mangroves on the beach in Demak, to help overcome erosion.

Location: Demak, Indonesia

Date: August 2022

Photographer: Kirim Foto Bambang Wirawan
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