albinism

November 29, 2012

Albino killings in Tanzania: Harry Freeland’s ‘In the Shadow of the Sun’

By Jim Treadway We don’t choose the colour of our skin, or the place where we are born. But for people with albinism in Tanzania, their appearance has made them a hunted, sub-human species. “We are killed. We are dismembered,” says Josephat Torner, one of the albino subjects in Harry Freeland’s documentary, In the Shadow […]