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A gay couple in Russia. Life is becoming increasingly difficult in the country for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. Sexual minorities face legal and social discrimination, harassment, and hate-crime attacks. (First prize, contemporary issues.) Photo: Mads Nissen, Denmark, Scanpix/Panos Pictures.
Photo of Gay Russian Lovers Wins World Press Photo of the Year
A touching portrait of a gay Russian couple has won the 58th annual award for World Press Photo of the year. It is the work of Danish photographer Mads Nissen, for a photo essay regarding Russia’s heavily criticized anti-gay laws. The dramatically lit image passed one test that many entries failed: 20 percent of finalists were disqualified for being too heavily retouched.
Wei, a 19-year-old Chinese factory worker, standing next to Christmas decorations that are drying. He uses six masks a day and wears the hat to protect his hair from the red powder used for coloring the factory’s products. (Second prize, contemporary issues, singles.) Photo: Ronghui Chen, China, City Express
Though many of the entries capture dramatic scenes and historic moments—Nissen is a photojournalist for Denmark’s Politiken newspaper—juror Patrick Baz, an experienced war photographer, defended the winning image’s subtlety, telling the New York Times that “photographers can always find a story right across the street” and that “you don’t have to go to war [and] be elbow to elbow with a dozen photographers doing the same thing.”
Students in a schoolyard in El Dorado County, in California, are photographed from a drone. Thousands of people have been killed by American drone strikes abroad over the past decade, a fact that inspired the photographer to buy a drone and to mount a camera on it. He traveled across the United States to photograph situations similar to those that have appeared in news reports of drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen, including weddings, funerals and groups of people praying or exercising. He also flew his camera over prisons, oil fields and the border with Mexico. (Third prize, contemporary issues, stories.) Photo: Tomas van Houtryve, Belgium, VII for Harper’s Magazine.
Other winners included Ronghui Chen’s photo of a worker at a Christmas decoration factory in Yiwi, China, which came in second for contemporary issues, and Glenna Gordon‘s images of the personal effects of the Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, which took second place in general news behind Pete Muller’s photographs of West Africa’s Ebola crisis.
The Italian Navy rescued survivors of a shipwreck 20 miles north of Libya. After hundreds of men, women and children drowned in 2013 off the islands of Sicily and Malta, the Italian government assigned its navy to help rescue refugees at sea, in a campaign called “Mare Nostrum.” In 2014 alone, 170,081 people were rescued and taken to Italy. (Second prize, general news, single.) Photo: Massimo Sestini, Italy.
The World Press Photo foundation was founded in Amsterdam in 1955, and offers a grand prize of €10,000 ($11,380) and a professional Canon DSLR camera and lens, with €1,500 ($1,700) going to the first place winners in each category.
A kitchen in Donetsk, Ukraine, one of the centers of fighting between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian military. (First prize, general news, singles.) Photo: Sergei Ilnitsky, Russia, European Pressphoto Agency.
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