Moonlit African migrants image wins World Press Photo
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Agence France-Presse
Posted at 02/15/2014 6:55 PM | Updated as of 02/16/2014 1:25 AM

John Stanmeyer's winning photo of African migrants on the shore of
Djibouti city at night.
Photo from the official website of World Press Photo
AMSTERDAM - A moonlit image of migrants trying to get mobile phone
signals on a Djibouti beach on Friday won the World Press Photo of the
Year award for US photographer John Stanmeyer.
A 19-member jury awarded the prestigious prize for the haunting
photograph of African migrants holding phones up to the sky to capture
a signal so they can call home, as they make their way to a hoped-for
better life in Europe.
The awards, including two top prizes for AFP, were announced at a
press conference in Amsterdam, where World Press Photo is based.
"It's a photo that is connected to so many other stories -- it opens
up discussions about technology, globalisation, migration, poverty,
desperation, alienation, humanity," said jury member Jillian
Edelstein.
Fellow jury member Susan Linfield said: "So many pictures of migrants
show them as bedraggled and pathetic... but this photo is not so much
romantic, as dignified."
Stanmeyer told AFP that he felt "honoured" by the prize.
"This photo is poetic, it connects to all of us," he told AFP by telephone.
"It's just people trying to call loved ones. It could be you, it could
be me, it could be any one of us."
The US-based VII agency photographer, who took his prize-winning shot
for National Geographic, focuses on "social injustices, eradication of
global poverty, human rights," according to his website
The World Press Photo jury of photography professionals, presided over
by VII Agency founder photographer Gary Knight, spent the last two
weeks judging photos in Amsterdam.
AFP photographers won two prizes, including the coveted 1st Prize Spot
News Single for Philippe Lopez's painterly image of typhoon Haiyan
survivors carrying religious icons in a procession in the Philippines.
The photograph, with a devastated landscape as its backdrop, had
already been chosen by Time magazine as one of the top 10 images of
2013.
Asia specialist Lopez joined AFP's Phnom Penh bureau in 2000 and is
currently a staff photographer at the agency's Asia-Pacific
headquarters in Hong Kong.
"This photograph sums up the faith of a people who continue to move
forward despite the scale of the disaster," Lopez said. "I am
delighted that the jury chose this image of hope."
AFP's Lyon-based photographer Jeff Pachoud's elegant shot of a
dog-sledding race through pristine snow, taken from a helicopter, won
1st Prize Sports Feature Singles.
"I remember this special moment when everything was just perfect for
capturing this surrealist setting," Pachoud said.
Almost 100,000 images were submitted by 5,754 photographers from 132
countries and judged anonymously, organisers said.
Top winner Stanmeyer will be awarded a cash prize of 10,000 euros
(14,000 dollars) and a camera during a ceremony in Amsterdam in April.
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