Here are images by an Ethiopian photojournalist Mulugeta Ayene that won a prize in the world’s most prestigious photojournalism awards. Mulugeta’s series of images of grieving families at the site of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, near Addis Ababa on March 14, 2019, has won first prize in the category for ‘spot news stories’ of the World Press Photo of the Year Award.
Relatives grieve at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, near Addis Ababa
The award was announced on April 17. ‘This is an incredible achievement not only for me as an individual but also as an African photographer. I hope that this award will inspire other young African photographers to take photojournalism seriously and to be part of a new generation of African journalists who share their own stories and views from the continent,’ the photographer wrote on his Facebook page.
Mulugeta is a photographer for the Associated Press (AP) and works on regular assignments for prominent international organizations such as UNICEF the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to mention a few.
Mulugeta’s photos have won him awards such as first prize in the ‘Excellence in Journalism’ competition organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association of Ethiopia (FCAE) in 2011 and 2012, and the first prize in the India-Africa Photo Contest in 2012, according to the description on the World Press Photo website.
Main Image: An Ethiopian relative of a crash victim throws dirt in her own face as she mourns at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed
