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On the evening of the UN International Day of Peace, 21 September 2021, winners of the international photography competition, Global Peace Photo Award, were awarded for the ninth time at the Austrian Parliament in Vienna. Recipients of Alfred-Fried Peace medals for their work are : Nate Hofer for ‘One and a Half Acres’, Shabana Zahir for ‘Our Journey’, Derrick Ofusu Boateng for ‘Peace and Strength’, Snezhana von Büdingen for ‘Meeting Sofie’, and Maggie Shannon for ‘Extreme Pain, but Also Extreme Joy ’.
Winner of the Global Peace Photo Award main prize Peace Image of the Year 2021, worth € 10000, is Maggie Shannon for her reportage about home births during the first lockdown in Los Angeles in spring 2020. The hospitals are flooded with Covid patients. In the maternity wards, spouses are not allowed. Many women want to give birth at home. Without mask, with the fathers. They are afraid of the hospitals. They are in panic. The midwifes receive emergency calls. In this situation,...