Humans of the World: Judging for Life Framer Photography Award

We are looking at an audience – a group of well-to-do Senegalese women near Dakar who are ostensibly watching a lamb fight. Except that isn’t the whole story. Some are looking beyond the frame, some at each other. The younger woman at the centre of the frame is seemingly locking eyes with the camera. So arresting is her gaze, it’s almost a portrait of her alone. This picture speaks to themes of female social status, of crowd psychology, of seeing and of being seen….

First prize winning image © Martin Gasch