|
This picture by US photographer Micah Albert, freelance documentary photographer represented by Redux Pictures photo agency is the 1st Prize Contemporary Issues Single in the 56th World Press Photo Contest, it was announced by the organizers on 15 February 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Pausing in the rain, a woman working as a trash picker at the 30-acre dump, which literally spills into households of one million people living in nearby slums, wishes she had more time to look at the books she comes across. She even likes the industrial parts catalogs. “It gives me something else to do in the day besides picking trash”, she said. This is picture is dated 03 April 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo by Micah Albert/EPA)
|
