Haunting Canada boarding school shot wins World Press Photo

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A haunting image of red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside, with a rainbow in the background, commemorating children who died at a residential school created to assimilate Indigenous children in Canada won the prestigious World Press Photo award Thursday.

The image was one of a series of the Kamloops Residential School shot by Canadian photographer Amber Bracken for The New York Times.

“It is a kind of image that sears itself into your memory. It inspires a kind of sensory reaction,” Global jury chair Rena Effendi said in a statement. “I could almost hear the quietness in this photograph, a quiet moment of global reckoning for the history of colonization, not only in Canada but around the world.”

It was not the first recognition for Bracken’s work in the Amsterdam-based competition. She won first prize in the contest’s Contemporary Issues category in 2017 for images of protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.

https://apnews.com/article/canada-netherlands-europe-religion-arts-and-entertainment-b4df032a5b0e050c080681d8980e3c66

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1. That headline is appallingly misleading, it wasn't a boarding school...

it was a residential school that, for all intents and purposes, imprisoned Indigenous children torn from their families' arms, physically, psychologically, sexually abused over years and whose purpose was to commit cultural genocide.

The photo, on the other hand, pays due homage to those children who died while under the control of their abusers. It is truly haunting.