People in the News, 3rd prize
Espen Rasmussen
Verdens Gang
Verdens Gang
01 January, 2006
People pray in a collapsed mosque in the mountain village of Jiggan, 2,350m above sea level. Three months after the October 2005 earthquake that devastated parts of Kashmir, hundreds of thousands of people were still homeless, many living in tents and collapsed buildings, facing icy winter conditions in the mountains.
Espen Rasmussen
He works as a picture editor at VG Helg, the weekend magazine of daily Norwegian newspaper, VG. He is represented by Panos Pictures Espen has won numerous awards for his work, i...
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