Pavel Prokopchik
The Netherlands, Arts and entertainment: 3rd Prize Singles
Followers of a Shaman woman known as Apashka are ritually covered in the blood of a slaughtered sheep in Ungurtas, Kazakhstan. After being covered in the blood they bathe in a nearby river. Pilgrims come from across the country and even as far as Russia and Ukraine to visit Apashka, a sufi, who calls herself the last dervish of Kazakhstan