Japanese AFP photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba won the World Press Photo exactly two years ago, with a picture from Sudan depicting Mohamed, who was reciting a poem on a dark soccer pitch in Khartoum. The photo has brought Mohamed a lot: he’s now studying in Maastricht and hopes to one day become president of Sudan.
For Trouw, I made a reconstruction about how Mohameds life was turned upside down because of Chiba’s iconic photograph. Click on this link to read the piece (in Dutch).