Maltese photojournalist Darrin Zammit Lupi has won the prestigious Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award for 2021 with a series of moving images chronicling the life of his daughter, who died in January.
Describing the award for his photo essay as an “impossibly huge honour”, he said it was “deeply moving” and “extremely bitter-sweet”.
Zammit Lupi’s emotional story in pictures titled ‘The first photo I ever took of my daughter, and the last’, was recently published by Reuters.
It documents the courageous battle fought by his 15-year-old daughter Rebecca, known as Becs, against a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer during the pandemic.