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• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  João Coelho, Angola
• Date of Photograph
  2023

This group of young people risk their lives every day in this ship graveyard. They have to dive to pull iron plates from the sunken carcasses of ships using only their hands and the strength of their arms. Exhausted, they must find the strength to fight the waves and currents to bring the heavy pieces to the beach where they are weighed and sold