Yahoo Lifestyle Australian Woman Wins Gold Medal At World Press Photo Competition
Raphaela Rosella's portrait of Laurinda on her way to Sunday school.
An Australian woman has scooped a major award at this year’s World Press Photo Awards. Raphaela Rosella, a documentary photographer from Brisbane, won the portrait category of the prestigious contest for her image of a young girl, Laurinda, on her way to Sunday school in suburban Queensland.
Other category winners include Petter Muller’s harrowing photograph of an Ebola patient in Sierra Leona, which one the General News category, and a picture by Bulent Killic of a young Turkish protester being apprehended by police, the winner of the Spot News category.
Photo: Bulent Kilic
The overall winner – chosen from more than 95,000 images by photographers from 131 countries – was Mads Nissen, a Danish staff photographer for Copenhagen newspaper Politiken. His image, which was also the category winner for Contemporary Issues, features a young gay Russian couple – Jon, 21 and Alex, 25 – in a private moment together.
Mads Nissen
Alessia Glaviano, Picture Editor at an Italian fashion magazine and one of the competition’s judges, believed the photograph conveyed a powerful message of acceptance.
“It sends out a strong message to the world, not just about homosexuality,” Glaviano said, “but about equality, about gender… a message about love being an answer in the context of all that is going on in the world.”
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