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A photo of a man and a baby under the barbed wire of the Serbian-Hungarian border, taken by Australian Warren Richardson, took first prize in the most prestigious photojournalism contest, the organizers of the World Press Photo announced this Thursday. The black and white snapshot, titled “Hope for a New Life,” was taken by this independent photographer on the night of August , , when refugees were trying to enter Hungary. The baby passes from hand to hand under the wires deployed between , in Serbia, and , in Hungary. Four photographers from France-Presse won awards. Sameer Al , Roberto Schmidt and Bulent won first, second and third prizes in the “Hot Current Reports” category, for photographs taken in Syria, Nepal and Turkey. Abd , for his part, took second prize in the "General Current Reports" category for a snapshot taken in the city of , in southern Syria.
Warren Richardson's photo is "powerful in its simplicity," said jury president and AFP director of photography Francis Kohn. "We saw that photo early America Mobile Number List and we knew it was an important image," he added. For Huang Wen, a member of the jury and director of new media development at the Chinese agency Xinhua, the photo is "disturbing." «You see anxiety and tension in a subtle way. "The image shows the emotion and feelings of a father trying to introduce his son to a world to which he wants to belong," she said. That night, after five days camping with the refugees, Warren Richardson saw a group of about people arriving, hiding among the trees, along the border line. First they make women and children, parents and the elderly pass. "We played cat and mouse with the police all night," explains the photographer, quoted in the World Press Photo statement.
It was around three in the morning when I took the photo, and I couldn't use the flash, because the police were trying to find these people. So I used the moonlight,” explains the Australian photographer. In the “Unique photos of general news” category, Mauricio Lima won first prize. His snapshot, taken for the New York Times, depicts a 16-year-old Islamic State fighter, severely burned and being treated in a Kurdish hospital in Syria. Warren Richardson also took first prize in the category "Unique hot news photos", followed by , for a photo of the January 11 demonstration in Paris, after the attacks against the weekly Charlie Hebdo. The jury examined nearly 83,000 photos, submitted by photographers from 128 countries. The jury, made up of 18 people, awarded 41 photographers of 21 nationalities in seven categories.
Warren Richardson's photo is "powerful in its simplicity," said jury president and AFP director of photography Francis Kohn. "We saw that photo early America Mobile Number List and we knew it was an important image," he added. For Huang Wen, a member of the jury and director of new media development at the Chinese agency Xinhua, the photo is "disturbing." «You see anxiety and tension in a subtle way. "The image shows the emotion and feelings of a father trying to introduce his son to a world to which he wants to belong," she said. That night, after five days camping with the refugees, Warren Richardson saw a group of about people arriving, hiding among the trees, along the border line. First they make women and children, parents and the elderly pass. "We played cat and mouse with the police all night," explains the photographer, quoted in the World Press Photo statement.
It was around three in the morning when I took the photo, and I couldn't use the flash, because the police were trying to find these people. So I used the moonlight,” explains the Australian photographer. In the “Unique photos of general news” category, Mauricio Lima won first prize. His snapshot, taken for the New York Times, depicts a 16-year-old Islamic State fighter, severely burned and being treated in a Kurdish hospital in Syria. Warren Richardson also took first prize in the category "Unique hot news photos", followed by , for a photo of the January 11 demonstration in Paris, after the attacks against the weekly Charlie Hebdo. The jury examined nearly 83,000 photos, submitted by photographers from 128 countries. The jury, made up of 18 people, awarded 41 photographers of 21 nationalities in seven categories.