People in the News, 3rd prize
Judah Passow
Network Photographers for The Sunday Telegraph
Network Photographers for The Sunday Telegraph
01 January, 1991
A young Kurd takes a last look at his homeland before climbing down to Isikveren refugee camp on the Turkish-Iraqi border. The Kurdish trek north was the largest exodus of refugees since the partition of India and Pakistan.
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