This photo of a Russian gay couple just won the prestigious World Press Photo award
Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
image of a gay couple locked in a tender embrace in Russia won the prestigious World Press Photo award on Thursday, highlighting the plight of sexual minorities in the country.
But organisers said almost a quarter of all pictures reaching the penultimate round of the 58th edition of the contest were rejected because they were digitally enhanced.
AFP’s Istanbul-based photographer Bulent Kilic won first and third prizes in the Spot News category, Singles, for two haunting images taken in Turkey and Syria.
Danish photographer Mads Nissen shot his evocative winning picture of “Jon and Alex” in a bare room in Saint Petersburg, with only a brown curtain as a backdrop. One of the men is lying down with his eyes closed as the other looks down at him tenderly, their hands locked together on the one man’s chest.
Russia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community has come under increasing attacks in Russia, with the government earlier this year passing a controversial law banning transvestites and transsexuals from driving.
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