One of my best friends and old classmates Johan Bävman won second price in the prestigeous World Press Photo Award for series photography.

His in depth report on the atrocious way albinos are treated in Tanzania, slaughtered because of ancient superstition (keeping a severed limb from an albino in your house supposedly brings your family luck and fortune) while living under some of the worst possible climate conditions for people with albinism.

Here are just a few of the photos that won him the price

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