Latin America Professional Award Shortlist

This photographic project depicts the return journey of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who were forced to abandon their attempt to reach the United States. The photographer notes that the policies of President Donald Trump have pushed thousands of migrants back to South America, where their journey is ‘thwarted by Panama’s Darién Gap jungle and the high cost of travelling by boat across the Caribbean’. Families with children, without food or medicine, are now stranded in the coastal town of Miramar in Panama, hoping that humanitarian organisations will help them return home.