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Robin Hammond: Interview

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It has been a big year for Paris-based, New Zealand photojournalist Robin Hammond. In February he won the 2013 FotoEvidence Book of the Year Award for his long-term photo essay “Condemned: Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis”.  Then in October as he was preparing to head to New York for the launch of the book he received news that he was also this year’s recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant in Humanistic Photography. 

“I often have to pinch myself and say you lucky bastard,” he tells me revealing that W. Eugene Smith was his inspiration for getting into photojournalism in the first place. “I didn’t really know what photojournalism was when I started photography. I thought maybe I would do landscapes or portraits I had really little idea. And then I picked up a book called Minamata by W. Eugene Smith.” 

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