WINNERS

Endless War

  • Photographer
    Jonathan Alpeyrie, United States
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

Since the 1970's Ethiopia and Somalia have been at odds and sometimes at war over Ogadenia, the Eastern desert remote region of the Christian State. Within Ogadenia lives a people, the Ogaden, an ethnic Muslim minority living within the border of Ethiopia. Raging guerrilla war against the Ethiopian government, the Ogadens have tried for decades to emancipate itself from the the Addis Ababa government, asking for some autonomy and rights. This claims were rejected, which lead to a long term conflict between the two people. These medium format portraits of these ONLF soldiers is their story.