The Mursi and the Kalashnikov

• Prize
• Photographer
  Ingetje Tadros, New Zealand
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.ingetjetadros.com

The Mursi live in the lower Omo valley of southwestern Ethiopia, 100 km north of the Kenyan border. They call themselves Mun (sg. Muni) and number less than 10,000. Over the past few decades they and their neighbours have faced growing threats to their livelihoods. Drought has made it difficult for many families to feed themselves by means of their traditional mix of subsistence activities cultivation and cattle herding. The establishment of national parks and hunting concessions has added to the pressure on scarce resources. Competition for agricultural and grazing land has led to inter-group-conflict, made worse by the spread of automatic weapons in the 1980s and 1990s.

• Biography
  Ingetje Tadros occupies a unique place in the world of social documentary photography, capturing the triumphs, tragedy and diversity of people’s lives through her intuitive storytelling. With a passion deeply rooted in humanitarian causes, her photography is often confronting and provocative to evoke a powerful message, telling people’s stories firstly at a community level and then to provide a conduit for communication between different cultures on a global platform.
• Awards
  Particular Merit Mention-All About Photo -#18 AAP MagazineBlack and White 2021 Honorable Mention-Documentary & Reportage- 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2021 Semi-Finalist HeadOn PhotoAwards 2020 Shortlisted ( 2 images) Portrait of Humanity 2020 3rd Place-Bronze Award-Photojournalism/Documentary at the 8th Zebra Awards 2020 2x Finalist-Photojournalism/Documentary at the 8th Zebra Awards 2020 Winner Documentary Category-Single-Pro-14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women 2019 Winner Cell Category-Single-Pro-14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women 2019 3 Honorable Mentions in Nude, Portrait and People Categories -single image-Pro-14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women 2019 Finalist at the 5th Jacob Riis Editorial Award 2017 Featured in SDN-Spotlight (Social Documentary Magazine)2017 Winner ANI-PixPalace Award 2016 interview at Visa Pour L'Image Finalist FotoEvidence Book Award 2016 - This is My Country Certificate LeadAwards 2016 - LeadAcademy (Germany) „Das Leben der verletzten Seelen“ which was published in Stern/N°16, 2016-part of This is My Country Winner Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism -Feature Photographic Essay- 2015.(the Australian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize ) Winner Amnesty International Media Awards 2015,Photography Cat. Winner Best Feature Photographic Essay at the West Australian Media Awards 2015 Highly Commended at the West Australian Media Awards 2015 Winner The Last Picture Show,New York Photo Festival, Category Photo-book 2015 Winner at The Exposure Award,digital display at The Louvre in Paris 2015 Finalist in the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards,Photojournalism Award 2015 Finalist at 'The Last Picture Show' in the Category- Photo Book- New York Photo Festival 2015 Finalist-Fremantle International Portrait Prize(FIPP-AUS)2015 and selected in the Top Best 20 Semi Finalist HeadOn 2015 Shortlisted for the Gomma Photography Grant 2015 RunnerUp Australia's Top Emerging Photographers 2015