Finalist: Kevin Frayer, freelance photographer, Getty Images
Nominated Work
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 01: A Rohingya refugee woman is helped from a boat as she arrives exhausted on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at Shah Porir Dwip after fleeing her village in Myanmar, on October 1, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 02: Rohingya refugees carry their belongings as they walk on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River after fleeing Myanmar, on October 2, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 02: A Rohingya refugee woman is carried by relatives on a makeshift sling near the border on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River after fleeing Myanmar, on October 2, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 20: A Rohingya refugee boy desperate for aid cries as he climbs on a truck distributing food for a local NGO near the Balukhali refugee camp on September 20, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - NOVEMBER 01: Rohingya Muslim refugees crowd a canal as they flee over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh at the Naf River on November 1, 2017 near Anjuman Para in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - NOVEMBER 02: Rohingya Muslim refugees carry their children as they walk on an earthen berm after crossing the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh near the Naf River on November 2, 2017 near Anjuman Para in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 01: A Rohingya refugee woman sits exhausted after collapsing on a beach on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at Shah Porir Dwip after fleeing her village in Myanmar by boat, on October 1, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - NOVEMBER 02: Rohingya Muslim refugees waiting to proceed to camps after crossing the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh crowd on an earthen berm close to the Naf River on November 2, 2017 near Anjuman Para in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - NOVEMBER 02: A Bangladeshi border guard from the BGB gestures as he controls a crowd of Rohingya Muslim refugees waiting to proceed to camps after crossing the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh near the Naf River on November 2, 2017 near Anjuman Para in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 20: Rohingya refugees desperate for aid crowd as food is distributed by a local NGO near the Balukhali refugee camp on September 20, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 20: Rohingya refugees desperate for aid struggle as food is distributed by a local NGO near the Balukhali refugee camp on September 20, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 02: Rohingya refugees Minara Hassan,right, and her husband Ekramul lay exhausted on the ground on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River after fleeing their home in Maungdaw, Myanmar, on October 2, 2017 and arriving by land in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 19: A Rohingya refugee girl wears a plastic bag to cover as she walks in the mud and monsoon rains at the Palongkhali refugee camp on September 19, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 27: Malnourished and suffering from diarrhea, two Rohingya refugee children cry on the floor of a makeshift shelter at the Balukali refugee camp on September 27, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - OCTOBER 22: Rohingya Muslim refugees stand together as they pray at the site of a new mosque being built on October 22, 2017 during evening prayers at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 22: Rohingya refugees rest in an Islamic school or madrassa after arriving by boat on the Bangladesh side of the Naf River at Shah Porir Dwip after fleeing their villages in Myanmar, on September 22, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH - SEPTEMBER 29: A woman carries the body of a young Rohingya refugee child as others are seen wrapped in white sheets prior to burial after they drowned when their boat capsized while fleeing Myanmar on September 29, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
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Biography
Kevin Frayer is an award-winning photojournalist whose work has appeared in the world’s leading news publications. He is a multiple winner at World Press Photo, POYi, Sony World Photography, and CHIPP, and has been recognized by several photography contests for his images. He is currently a freelance photographer working with Getty Images based in Beijing, China.
Mr. Frayer, who is Canadian, began his photojournalism career in 1991 as a young freelancer in the former Yugoslavia. He has since documented conflict in the Middle East, including the Gaza Strip, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Libya.
Mr. Frayer worked at his hometown newspaper The Winnipeg Sun then as a National Photographer with the Canadian Press based in Toronto covering news and sport. In 2003 he joined the Associated Press in Jerusalem, first basing himself in Gaza City then rising to the position of Chief Photographer for Israel and the Palestinian Territories. He then shifted to New Delhi as Chief Photographer for South Asia. In 2013, he moved to China, became a father and joined Getty Images.
His work has been part of exhibitions at Visa Pour l’Image, the United Nations and the Simon Weisenthal Center and has appeared in numerous books.