2024 Sony World Photography Awards: Winners revealed - BBC News

The winning images from this year's Sony World Photography Awards.

15 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingThe winners of the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, with Juliette Pavy named as Photographer of the Year for her series, Spiralkampagnen, a project on the forced sterilisation of Inuit women in Greenland.

Image source, Juliette PavyImage caption, Naja Lyberth, a psychologist in Nuuk, was one of the first to testify about her forced sterilisationPavy's documentary project explores the lasting affects of birth-control practices carried out on Inuit Greenlanders by Danish doctors in the 1960s and 1970s.

The series examines the spiralkampagnen ("coil campaign") in which several thousand Inuit women and girls, some as young as 12, were fitted with an intrauterine device (IUD) without their consent.

The photos range from shots of the city of Nuuk and its clinical spaces, to X-ray imagery and archival photographs of the young women involved.

Naja Lyberth, a psychologist in Nuuk, was one of the first to testify about her forced sterilisation. She set up a Facebook group to allow women to share their common experiences and help each other cope with the trauma.

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