Altaf Qadri, photographer, New Delhi, for a powerful and sensitively executed photo-driven project that captures the spirit and resilience of a desperately poor family, keeping their 7-year-old son in school against all odds.
Seven-year-old Farmaan poses near his home, a wooden fruit vendor’s cart, in New Delhi, India, Jan. 18, 2019. For this Indian family, desperately poor, barely educated and living on the fringes of New Delhi life, hope is found in the 7-year-old boy with huge eyes and scraggly hair.
AP Photo / Altaf Qadri
Altaf Qadri, photographer, New Delhi, for a powerful and sensitively executed photo-driven project that captures the spirit and resilience of a desperately poor family, keeping their 7-year-old son in school against all odds.