1995 Photo Contest, General News, 3rd prize
Photographer

James Nachtwey

Magnum Photos for Time

01 July, 1994

The bodies of cholera victims are lined up by the side of a road near Kibumba, the largest refugee camp in Zaire. In an attempt to escape from the civil war tearing their country apart, about a quarter of the Rwandan population crossed the border into Zaire, where hunger and disease awaited them. Hutu refugees set up vast encampments in the plains below the volcanoes outside the town of Goma. Within days, the refugee camps were hit by a cholera epidemic. Humanitarian organizations established cholera clinics to try stop the spread of the fatal disease.

About the photographer

James Nachtwey

Photographs of the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights movement inspired him to become a photographer. While teaching himself photography, he worked as truck driver and as ...

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