REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - In April, Reuters photographer Zohra Bensemra was sent to cover the drought in Somalia. “Photography opens eyes to what’s going on in the world,” says Bensemra, who was named agency photographer of the year by the Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper. We don’t take sides.”Read her photographer profile https://widerimage.reuters.com/photographer/zohra-bensemraBased in Algeria, Bensemra says she believes being a woman in the field has its advantages. One of her most memorable photographs of the year shows an exhausted Khatla Ali Abdallah, 90, fleeing a battle with Islamic State outside Mosul in February. Bensemra had tears in her eyes as she shot the photograph, imagining the woman as her own grandmother, but unable to help.

Source: Ethiopian News December 21, 2017 23:03 UTC