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Australian wins World Press Photo for migrants image
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In this image released by World Press Photo shows the World Press Photo of the Year titled "Hope for a new Life" by photographer Warren Richardson. The picture also won a first prize in the Spot News singles category and shows a man passing a baby through the fence at the Serbia-Hungary border in Roszke, Hungary, Aug. 28, 2015. (World Press Photo via AP/Warren Richardson)
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n Australian freelance photographer's haunting, moonlit image of a baby being passed by migrants underneath a razor-wire fence on the Hungary-Serbia border has won the prestigious World Press Photo award for 2015.
The photo was taken by Warren Richardson on Aug. 28 near the border crossing point at Roszke in Hungary as migrants tried to get into Europe before Hungarian authorities could complete a secure fence along the length of the country's border with Serbia.
Jury member Vaughn Wallace, deputy photo editor for Al Jazeera America, calls the image "incredibly powerful visually, but it's also very nuanced."
He says the photo "causes you to stop and consider the man's face, consider the child. You see the sharpness of the barbed wire and the hands reaching out from the darkness."
