Winner Portrait · April 2020
Apatani woman in Arunachal Pradesh, India
The women from this tribe are exceptionally beautiful that in the past they were captured by neighbouring tribesmen. To prevent this the village elders proposed that each woman inserts nose plugs and has facial tattoos to make them less attractive to the raiders. Nose plugs incisions was observed until the 1970s, when the government imposed a ban on the practice.
- Award
- Winner — Portrait, April 2020
- Location
- Arunachal Pradesh, Indien
- Camera
- ILCE-7M2
- Focal length
- 55mm
- Shutter
- 1/250s
- Aperture
- f/5
- ISO
- ISO 100
