Photographer of the Year in new Survival book
by Joanna Eede
The recipient of the 2009 International Travel Photographer of the Year award is GMB Akash from Bangladesh, whose photographs of the Jumma people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts appear in Survival’s new book, We Are One, together with a previously unpublished article on the plight of the Jumma peoples by Richard Gere.
They have lived in the dense forests of the Hill Tracts for generations, and for many years have endured some of the worst human rights violations in Asia.
We Are One also contains photographs taken by the award’s 2007 winner, Cat Vinton from the UK, of the Moken ’sea gypsies’ of the Andaman Sea and nomadic Mongolians of the Gobi Desert.
Other photographers whose images of endangered tribal peoples appear in We are One include Sebastiao Salgado, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Mirella Ricciardi, Mike Goldwater, Frans Lanting, Steve McCurry and Don McCullin.
We Are One is available from Survival’s online store.