February 18, 2016
By James Estrin
The judges for the World Press Photo Contest (click here) have awarded the organization’s top prize for 2015 to a moody black-and-white image depicting the hardship of the migration crisis.
The photograph, lit only by the moon, is of a Syrian man passing a child under barbed wire in their attempt to cross the border from Serbia into Hungary.
Made by the freelance Australian photographer Warren Richardson, the image also won the contest’s spot news singles category....
