Richardson’s winning image, which was never published, depicts a migrant passing a baby underneath a razor-wire fence on the Hungary/Serbia border. As well as other images of the migrant crisis, highlights selected here include a whale and her calf sharing the sea with divers, an ominous storm bearing down on Sydney, and a highly symbolic face-off on the streets of Chicago.
Winners Of The World Press Photo Of The Year 2015
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World Press Photo of the Year 2015 and Spot News 1st Prize Singles was won by freelance photographer Warren Richardson for this image. The photo, taken in near darkness, depicts a migrant passing a baby under the fence at the Serbia/Hungary border in Roszke, Hungary. (August 28, 2015)
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First Prize Singles in the General News category was won by freelance Brazilian photographer Mauricio Lima for his picture of an Islamic State militant being treated in a Kurdish hospital, on the outskirts of Hasaka, Syria. (August 1, 2015)
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First Prize Stories in the General News Category was won by freelance Russian photographer Sergei Ponomarev. This image from the series shows a Slovenian police officer on horseback escorting migrants after they crossed from Croatia. Under Europe's system of open internal borders, the island's thinly patrolled, easily accessible coastline, within sight of the Turkish coast, might as well be the frontier of France or Germany or Sweden. (October 20, 2015)
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Second Prize Stories in the General News Category was won by Syrian AFP photographer Abd Douman. This image from the series is of a young victim of the Syrian civil war in the city of Douma. (August 22, 2015)