Sport - Professional

Playing Ball Among the Dead

Larry Louie
Canada

Nominee

"Playing Ball Among the Dead"
Navotas Cemetery, Manila, Oct 2012. The young men living in the Navotas Cemetery playing a game of basketball among the tombs stacked up in the cemetery.

Biography: International award winning photographer Dr. Larry Louie is an optometrist in Canada and also a travel & humanitarian documentary photographer. On his travels, he is exploring the lives of remote indigenous people, documenting social issues and ultimately seeking to adjust people's view of the world. Over the last couple of years, Larry has used his photography as a platform to highlight the work of different charities around the world. He hopes his photographs will be able to tell the stories and make a difference, and to reveal light that is found in the darkest of places.

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