CPOY 76 Domestic Picture Story Award of Excellence: The Last Mink
A narrative picture story or thematic essay photographed in your home country that either reports on significant events, celebrates life, portrays sport or explores environmental, social, economic or political topics. 8 photos maximum per story.
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Slide 6 of 8
October 14, 2020
Linda has been a farmer all her life and has worked with mink for 20 years, but the weeks around the killing still surpassed her imagination. And the future is uncertain. The killing itself is a gasp that is palpable, but it is just as much what awaits afterwards. Her livelihood has been removed from one day to the next and she has a hard time imagining what she is going to do now. Linda is not alone in this uncertainty.
"It is terrible to see your entire mink-population killed so soon before we should have furred many of them. Killing the healthy mink feels completely wrong,” says Linda Christensen.