British photographer Alixandra Fazzina has won this year's Nansen Refugee Award, the United Nations announced Friday. "Fazzina was chosen for her tireless dedication to uncovering and portraying the overlooked human consequences of war," the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said in a statement. The prize is worth 100,000 dollars, donated by the governments of Norway and Switzerland, and the winner can give the money to a cause of her choosing.
Fazzina began her war-photography career in Bosnia and then went on to photograph in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and most recently is working in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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