Refugees crowd into a Masonic temple converted into a camp in the capital of Monrovia, Liberia in this July 15, 2003 photo. Hundreds of thousands of Liberians converged on the capital as they fled fighting from the country’s civil war. © Chris Hondros/Getty Images
A Way Home brings to light the ways in which communities across the globe define “home.” Through a compassionate and telling lens, these photojournalists examine the effects migration, conflict, political strife and humanitarian crises inflict on individuals’ concept of home.
Baby, a 10-year-old girl in Safeda Basti, is severely underweight. Diarrhea and malnutrition are endemic in the slum. Water is often supplied by the government for one hour every morning causing a mad rush to the taps. (Photo/CHF 2012 Awardee Andrea Bruce)
Rose Dena, 85, attempts to clean what is left of her home in the mountains of southern Haiti more than a month after Hurricane Matthew made landfall in October 2016. (Photo/CHF 2012 Awardee Andrea Bruce)
Jhilli Pradhan cooks breakfast for her husband's family with tap water provided by an aid organization Samiapalli Village in southern India. The family received running water after building a working outhouse in their back yard. Without proper sanitation, good water is hard to fine. Most villages receive their water from wells which are often contaminated through open defecation. (Photo/CHF 2012 Awardee Andrea Bruce)
Girls line up for school where there is no working toilet. Most girls drop out of school when they start their period due to a lack of toilets and privacy. In the village of Peepli Kheera, population around 800 people, there is only one toilet. Most villages receive their water from wells which are often contaminated through open defecation. (Photo/CHF 2012 Awardee Andrea Bruce)
These photographers, all Chris Hondros Fund grantees, demonstrate a distinct ability to connect with communities and bring complex issues into the public eye to raise awareness and foster understanding.
The Chris Hondros Fund & Getty Images Award celebrates the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist and photojournalist Chris Hondros, who was killed April 20, 2011 on assignment in Misurata, Libya. As a photographer working in the world’s most difficult and dangerous places, Hondros strived to humanize world events in hopes of provoking thought.
A girl traveling north with her mother passed by a mural showing popular routes through Mexico at a shelter in Tenosique, Mexico that provides shelter and food to migrants. (Photo/2017 CHF Awardee Meridith Kohut)
Two sisters and a friend from Honduras, ages 13, 14, and 16, arrive at a cattle ranch along the border between Guatemala and Mexico with their coyote who is smuggling the women to the United States to be reunited with their parents who live and work in Texas and California. The sisters have not seen their parents for six years and their friend has not seen her parents for twelve years. (Photo/2017 CHF Awardee Meridith Kohut)
Levis Osorio Andino, 26, and her six-year-old son, Samir, visit New York’s Times Square for the first-time days after being reunited after 56 days apart. Andino and Samir were separated in accordance with the “zero-tolerance” policy implemented by the Trump Administration. As photos of women in orange jumpsuits scrolled across the screen, Samir said, “Look, Mama, like you,” referring to Levis’ detention. Under that “zero-tolerance” policy, thousands of children were sent to holding facilities, sometimes hundreds or thousands of miles from where their parents were being held for criminal prosecution. (Photo/2017 CHF Awardee Meridith Kohut)
The concept of “home” as documented by these consummate photojournalists celebrates and honors the shared humanity among us.
A resident herding his cattle out to pasture past some of the cavern’s newer homes, built with wood rather than woven bamboo. The mountainous stretch of the southwestern province of Guizhou is in one of the poorest provinces in China. Over the past 20 years, the caves have become less secluded because of a steadily increasing trickle of tourists. (Photo/2016 CHF Awardee Bryan Denton)
Wong Qicai works in the terraced fields below the Zhong cave, pictured behind. Residents of the cave subsist primarily off farming crops like millet and raising pigs and other livestock. (Photo/2016 CHF Awardee Bryan Denton)
Children do chores during their weekend break. The only link to the rest of the country, and the outside world, is over a mountain footpath — a brisk one-hour hike through a steep valley — that leads to a nearby road. (Photo/2016 CHF Awardee Bryan Denton)
Today, the future of the 18 families that still reside in the cave is uncertain, as tourism to the cave increases, and pressure from the local government has increased on them to move to newly constructed housing in the valley floor. (Photo/2016 CHF Awardee Bryan Denton)