The winners of the professional category of the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, with Pablo Albarenga named as Photographer of the Year for his work on indigenous communities in Latin America.
Pablo Albarenga, a documentary photographer from Uruguay, is this year's Photographer of the Year for his series Seeds of Resistance, which highlights the plight of indigenous communities in Latin America, who are fighting to preserve their territories from agri-business and deforestation.
Albarenga's work pairs aerial images of some of the locations in danger with portraits of the activists fighting to conserve them.
when you cut down a tree you not only destroy the tree but also all life forms that depend upon it: vines, insects, plants ...