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Portrait of veiled mother of nine fishing in Yemen wins World Press Photo award


Pablo Tosco, Yemen: Hunger, Another War Wound (2020)
© Pablo Tosco, Argentina
A portrait of Fatima, a Yemeni mother of nine children, fully veiled in a Hijab as she flings a fishing net into the waters below, has earned the Argentinian photojournalist Pablo Tosco first prize in the contemporary issues category of the World Press Photo Awards, which were announced today.
The image was taken on 12 February 2020 aboard Fatima’s tiny boat and amidst the ongoing conflict between Houthi Shia Muslim rebels and a Sunni Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia which Unicef has termed the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, the 2021 Photo Contest jury chair and co-founder and director of photo.circle, called Tosco’s winning picture “a powerful image of agency and resilience.” ....

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