© Mary F. Calvert

Polio victim Abubakar, age 6, crawling next to the footprint of his mother at the family home in Kano, Nigeria, photographed by Mary F. Calvert. Calvert’s story on polio, a highly infectious virus that cripples children it does not kill, is a winner of the BD Hope for a Healthy World Competition in the category of Best Global Health Story, Professional. BD invited photographers to tell stories using imagery on a wide variety of global health issues.

The winners of the BD Hope for a Healthy World Competition will be exhibited during the Look3 Festival of the Photograph, taking place in Charlottesville, VA, June 9 through 11. Exhibition locations and dates, and a festival schedule can be found on the Look3 web site.

All Photos © Thomas Hoeffgen

The enthusiasm and passion with which soccer is played in Africa are inevitably transferred to the onlooker. Internationally successful fashion and advertising photographer Thomas Hoeffgen (*1968 in Kiel) experienced the same thing when he flew to Nigeria in 1999 for a story on soccer. He became so interested in the subject that he spent the next several years taking unusual, direct photographs of players and spectators in Nigeria, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi, and South Africa. Hoeffgen’s images take us from the continent’s typical improvised sandlots with their two wooden posts forming a makeshift goal to the concrete stadiums in the city with their floodlights and grandstands. Remarkably honest photographs, since no one takes notice of the man behind the camera—the only thing that counts here is the game. Fore more information on Hoeffgen’s Book, African Arenas, click here.

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