Last year’s competition was overshadowed by the disqualification of a winner who admitted that one in a series of pictures about the Belgian city of Charleroi was actually taken in Brussels, and by controversy surrounding the pictures of the gritty, post-industrial Charleroi.
Lars Boering, managing director of the World Press Photo Foundation, said the contest set up a new code of ethics for this year’s contest to ensure the integrity of images.
Several winners in the news categories focused on the migrant crisis and one of its root causes, the devastating civil war in Syria.
[…] the contest’s wide range of categories also …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
