", Master Award 2020 | Nikita Teryoshin – ENG. Algeria had been embroiled in protests since February, having been aimed at ousting long-time president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, an 81-year-old veteran of Algeria's independence struggle who had been in ill-health and not seen in public for some time. These are external links and will open in a new window. Ewa, a 15-year-old Armenian girl who has recently woken from catatonic state brought on by Resignation Syndrome, sits in a wheelchair, flanked by her parents, in a refugee reception centre in Podkowa Leśna, Poland, opposition's dialogue with people in Khartoum. Polish soldiers at the bazooka simulator. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20). The tightly cropped vignettes pointedly highlight uneasy contrasts—a woman in the cockpit of a helicopter, her high-heels more suited to a bank than the battlefield, a tray of appetizers set against a battleship backdrop. The performance, no doubt, appears incomplete without a drink in hand. He arrived to find the nice hotels booked and the dumps charging crazy prices, so he crashed on a couch and bummed rides to the show. I deliberately don't show the faces. Visitors munch on figs, grapes, and cheese while perusing helicopters. Everyday on the news we are watching pictures of war and destruction and the expenditure on armaments is setting new records year after year. Nothing Personal - the Back Office of War, by Nikita Teryoshin Image copyright Nikita Teryoshin. A woman photographs the missiles of a Black Hawk helicopter. A woman reaches for one more appetizer with a model of a Bofors 57 Mk3 gun in the background. A text on his website says that a photograph of anonymised traders who appear to have weapons emerging from their heads, could be read as an allusion to an anti-war drawing from the 1930s, titled “Dangerous Dining Companions,” which showed men eating nonchalantly with cannons for heads. Longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir was overthrown last April, leading to a violent struggle between the military and the pro-democracy movement. I felt their undefeated solidarity like burning embers that remain to flare up again.". Fancy appetizers sit in front of a battleship poster. 'Injured Kurdish Fighter Receives Hospital Visit' by Ivor Prickett was a nominee for the World Press Photo Awards. I like the Idea of this symbolism. He describes his work as street, documentary and everyday horror. He avoided revealing faces, choosing instead to provide just a glimpse of the people. Ewa developed RS while her family were applying for asylum in Sweden. For the people Teryoshin photographed, it's just business as usual.