Photo Sequences, 3rd prize
Sven-Erik Sjöberg
Dagens Nyheter
Dagens Nyheter
01 January, 1975
An abandoned boy in a rice paddy in a suburb of Phnom Penh, days before the republic's fall to the Khmer Rouge. His parents were killed and his home burnt during a mortar attack.
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