“I was 20 meters away from the scene of the assassination of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. I saw the tensions on her driver's face. It was only a moment when there was a huge explosion, so I quickly pulled out of the place, but I came back and took pictures. And conflicts. ” American photographer John Moore, winner of the 2019 World Press Photo Award, recounted one of his adventures with his camera on the platform of the International Photography Festival (Expoher), organized by the Sharjah Government Media Office in its fourth session, which will continue until tomorrow at the Expo Center in Sharjah.
Moore tried to convey to the festival audience his views as a private correspondent for the Getty Images Foundation. Behind the `` crying girl at the border '' for which Moore deserved the World Press Photo Award for 2019 is a lot of human suffering and many refugees who die on their journeys.
"There are forgotten graves in the desert," Moore said. "Some are discovered by activists while many remain untouched," he said.
On the image of Honduran child Janella Sanchez, two-year-old, Moore said: «Yanella introduced the world to the suffering of refugees, and told us about the struggle of parents to provide a good life for their children. Life. This photograph was taken as part of a 28-picture project.The committee chose the picture of the girl crying scared during a Texas border guard's detention of her mother in 2018. She was there before she took this picture, and I saw her walking next to her mother and I didn't know she would be a subject. For a picture you will win the award ». "I am still in contact with the mother, telling me about her child, and I do not know if her application has already been accepted by the US authorities. All I know is that she will appear next month in the asylum court. ».
“I don't treat people in my images as numbers,” Moore concluded. I have lived a lot of experiences of asylum and experienced his long and arduous journeys, if the refugees in groups and discovered the media accompanied them feel safe, and know that their case will reach the public opinion and this is a great responsibility for me ».