With the grain Matthew Burbidge speaks to Jodi Bieber, winner of the World Press Awards. This year's winning entry is a desolate, 12-photograph series in black and white of the journey of illegal immigrants back to Mozambique. The next few photographs were taken in Lindela, the bleak Gauteng holding centre for the illegals. The day before Bieber arrived, a Nigerian had apparently cut off a guard's finger.
People look distrustfully at the camera and some hide their faces.
The gritty, grainy series echoes some of David Goldblatt's work on displaced people and, at times, the scenes almost look like a film set. Bieber also travelled with the illegals on the train back to Mozambique. There are rows and rows of men, squatting on the seats, with empty luggage racks above their heads. To deter escape, officials order the men to take off their belts and clip them to the overhead rails. The windows on the train are all left open.