ジョン・スタンメイヤーのインスタグラム(johnstanmeyer) - 2月15日 10時40分

Humbled. Honored. Speechless.
Thank you to all for your kind words on receiving this years World Press award for this image from Djibouti. Could not have been achieved without the support and passion from National Geographic @ナショナルジオグラフィック for their commitment to serious photojournalism.

Caption: Impoverished African migrants crowd the night shore of Djibouti city, trying to capture inexpensive cell signals from neighboring Somalia—a tenuous link to relatives abroad. For more than 60,000 years our species has been relying on such intimate social connections to spread across the Earth.

Have been asked countless times today what this photograph, Signal, means to me. While standing on the shores of the Red Sea that evening in Djibouti City, it felt as if I was photographing all of us — you, me, our brothers and sisters — all desperately trying to connect to our loved ones. In this tenuous period of human migration where despair and hope simultaneously intertwine, we seek to find comfort, a sense of balance, a desire to be home, reconnecting to something stable, reassuring. This photograph of Somalis trying to "catch" a signal is an image of all of us as we stand at the crossroads of humanity, where we must ask ourselves what is truly important, demanding our collective attention in a global society where the issues of migration, borders, war, poverty, technology and communication intersect.

John Stanmeyer

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