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Showing posts with label Magarita Techroeb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magarita Techroeb. Show all posts

Thursday, November 8, 2012

en Pe'trett auf fäaschmiete

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Mennonite Portrait wins 2012 British Taylor Wessing Prize


en Pe'trett auf fäaschmiete
 

© Jordi Ruiz Cirera, 2011-12.
And the prize goes to – a portrait of a Mennonite youth.  Yes, in fact, the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 has gone to London-based, Spanish photographer Jordi Ruiz Cirera for his hauntingly beautiful 2011 photographic portrait of a young Bolivian Mennonite, Magarita Teichroeb.