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© 2002 Jane Evelyn Atwood from a Day in the Life of Africa
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| In the morning calm before hundreds of students arrive, a teacher in the village of Sanguere-Ngal, Cameroon, prepares the day's lessons. Children attend classes in six dilapidated buildings nearby. Every Friday, students carry all the desks outside and sweep the dirt floors.
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|  | | | American/Paris Born in New York, Atwood has been living in France since 1971 and working in the tradition of documentary photography, following her subjects for long periods of time. She is the author of five books on subjects including Parisian prostitutes, the French Foreign Legion, the blind and women in prison. Atwood has won various international prizes including the W. Eugene Smith Award in 1980, a 1987 World Press Photo award for "Jean-Louis -- Living and Dying With AIDS," and an Alfred Eisenstaedt Award in 1998 for "Babies Behind Bars." | | | | | | | 
