The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) announced Kwame Yeboah’s ‘Eye Screening at Jukwa, Ghana’ was the professional winner of its World Sight Day 2022 photo competition, while ‘Refraction’ by Laite Tuiloma won the amateur category.
The panel of seven judges, including last year’s professional winner Julie-Anne Davies, selected the winning images from more than 960 photos submitted from over 60 countries. “It is staggering the way people have encompassed and celebrated World Sight Day like never before. The photo competition has benefited from that exposure and the quality of submissions are second to none,” said IAPB’s Simon Darvill. Summing up the general feeling, Judge Caroline Casey, an award-winning social entrepreneur, said the images and the annual competition make “visible the issue that is a global blind spot”.
Of the winning image, optometrist Yeboah said it captured the excitement and willingness of community members to get their eyes examined. “The picture is taken from the room of a mud house in which the consultation and eye exam is to be done,” he said.
