Haunting image of Kamloops residential school memorial named World Press Photo of the Year
Edmonton photographer Amber Bracken's shot inspires 'sensory reaction,' jury chair says
https://i.cbc.ca/1.6411612.1649346266!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/netherlands-world-press-photo.jpg
A haunting image of red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside with a rainbow in the background, commemorating children who died at a residential school in British Columbia, won the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award Thursday.
The image was one of a series on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School shot by Edmonton photographer Amber Bracken for The New York Times.
"It is a kind of image that sears itself into your memory. It inspires a kind of sensory reaction," global jury chair Rena Effendi said in a statement about the image, titled Kamloops Residential School.
"I could almost hear the quietness in this photograph, a quiet moment of global reckoning for the history of colonization, not only in Canada but around the world."
more
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/world-press-photo-win-amber-bracken-residential-school-1.6411587
