William Daniels Receives 2014 Tim Hetherington Grant | WPN World People News

The photographer William Daniels has been awarded the fourth annual Tim Hetherington Grant, Human Rights Watch and World Press Photo announced on The photographer William Daniels has been awarded the fourth annual Tim Hetherington Grant, Human Rights Watch and World Press Photo announced on December 11, 2014.

An altar boy prepares for mass at a church in Boali where a large group of Muslims who fled attacks by anti-balaka militias was sheltering. Central African Republic, January 2014.

Daniels was selected for his work on the Central African Republic, a project entitled “Roots of Africa’s Unholy War.” He will receive a grant of €20,000 (approximately US$25,000) to complete the project.

The jury, meeting in New York on December 10 and 11, 2014, selected the winner from among 198 applications.

“Roots of Africa’s Unholy War: Central African Republic”
The Central African Republic (CAR) has been plunged into the bloodiest crossroads of its short history. In 2013, rebels from the Séléka seized power, unleashing months of anarchy, followed by a brutal backlash from anti-balaka militias, that has subsided only partially, and only recently, with the arrival of foreign peacekeepers. Daniels undertook five trips to CAR during this period, in an effort to understand and document the human drama of this under-reported conflict. Daniels will use the Hetherington Grant to underwrite further trips to CAR as it struggles to escape its bloody past. His plan is to present his work in the media, in a street exhibition in New York, and in a book.

“Tim Hetherington brought attention to a forgotten crisis in Africa,” said Carroll Bogert, deputy executive director at Human Rights Watch. “That is what we hope William Daniels’ future work will do.”

“I appreciate William Daniels’ sense of going behind the headlines of what happened in the Central African Republic,” said Maarten Koets, acting director of World Press Photo. “I love the ambition that speaks out of this project.”

Source: Human Rights Watch