First Place
Magnus Wennman
Aftonbladet

"Merullah"

Merullah is blind and lives with his family next to the Swedish military base in Mazar-e-sharif, Afghanistan. Every day, he listens when their heavy vehicles roll past. He feels the earth shaking. He would like to get to know them, but they stay behind their walls or passes by. If they came here, I would tell my story for them about the goat and the lion. 2014, his neighbors, the foreign militaries, pack up and go home. What follows in their footsteps, no one knows.