News Feature, 2nd prize
Mary Ellen Mark
Life / Time
Life / Time
01 May, 1985
Life in Korem Camp, a famine relief camp 250 miles north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. For the famine victims forced to live outdoors, blankets and crevices in the parched earth provide the only shelter during the cold nights.
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