Matthew Abbott

PERSONAL PROJECTS/On Country in Arnhem Land 2008 - Ongoing PHOTOJOURNALISM/Cattle Raiding in South Sudan 2014 PHOTOJOURNALISM/Rohingya Refugees 2012 Purchasing Photographs PHOTOJOURNALISM/South Sudan In Turmoil 2014 PHOTOJOURNALISM/Istanbul 2008 About - Contact Hussain's Journey/Hussain's Journey FULL Achievements PERSONAL PROJECTS/The Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards PHOTOJOURNALISM/Tear Sheets PHOTOJOURNALISM/Video Doco: Get Free or Die Trying 2013 PERSONAL PROJECTS/When They Sing of Australia They Never Mention the Flies PHOTOJOURNALISM/Camp Dead End - Manus Island 2016 PHOTOJOURNALISM/The Last Outback Truckies PHOTOJOURNALISM/Jillaroos PHOTOJOURNALISM/"We are not a gang" Aus-South Sudanese Youth EDITORIAL PORTRAITS PHOTOJOURNALISM/Black Summer PHOTOJOURNALISM/Grand City PHOTOJOURNALISM/Football’s Longest Drive PHOTOJOURNALISM/Bachelor and Spinsters PHOTOJOURNALISM/Samoa Measles Epidemic PHOTOJOURNALISM/Uluru Climbing Ban PHOTOJOURNALISM/Fighting Fire with Fire

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A nurse leaves a measles isolation ward at Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital. A security guard is stationed out the front with a desk with hand cleaning supplies. As of December 16th 2019, there have been 5,200 confirmed cases of measles and 73 deaths in Samoa - out of a population of just over 200,000 people. A measles outbreak beginning in October has impacted the small island nation, which before the outbreak had a vaccination rate of only between 28-40% according to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef). Responding to the outbreak, the Samoan government has issued a state of emergency and enacted a mobile vaccination program which has now reportedly vaccinated over 90% of the population. Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital, Apia, Samoa. 10th December 2019. Matthew Abbott for The New York Times.

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