2007 Photo Contest, People in the News, 3rd prize
Photographer

Espen Rasmussen

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.

About the photographer

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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