Doomed Paradise – The last Penan in the rainforest of Borneo (World 2020, by Tomas Wüthrich) - Swiss Press Award

Tomas Wüthrich
2016 Long Tevenga, Malaysia. Peng Megut und Tepeket Agan frühmorgens auf der Jagd. Sie zählen zu den letzten teilnomadisch lebenden Penan.
NZZ am Sonntag / Freiburger Nachrichten / Der Bund / Berner Zeitung / La Gruyèrien u.a.
Photo / World
2020
Tomas Wüthrich
Since 2014, I have been documenting the daily lives of the last remaining hunter-gatherers of the Penan people. Their semi-nomadic lifestyle in the rainforest of Sarawak, Borneo, is acutely threatened by illegal logging and palm oil plantations; it's a life caught between tradition and modernity. The Penan became internationally known through environmental activist Bruno Manser, who disappeared without a trace in the jungle in 2000.
