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CPOY 66 Documentary Bronze: Liberi Non Grata

A long-form photographic essay or extended narrative story which portrays important contemporary concerns or social issues. To encourage long-term projects, images from previous year's work may be included, provided none of them have previously won a CPOY award. Half of the photographs in the entry must have been taken or first published between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011.

Caption
Slide 11 of 11
March 31, 2011
There’s no warmth in the sun when Janis, Artur, Andry, Dima and Oksana strolls down Jekabpils street. Although it is close to zero degrees outside, the kids have thin jackets on, Janis just a sweatshirt. They knock on the window belonging to the day center Arken and continues into the house's backyard. They enter a stairwell and wait outside a green door. After just a moment 20-year-old Andris open the door from inside and lets them in. The building in which the day center is located looks like the rest of the buildings in the eastern suburb Maskavas. Run down with faded and paint flaked facades. Almost everything in Arken is old and broken, most recently the heat pump broke down. Although spring is on its way it’s very cold in the day center. The overgarment stay on for those who have them.
Jimmy Croona / Mid Sweden University
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