The prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents’ Awards on Saturday honored work by a range of international journalists including several veteran reporters and an unnamed Burmese photographer.
The jury agreed unanimously to award the photography prize to the Burmese candidate, its president Franco-Iranian correspondent Manoocher Deghati said.
The jury wanted to highlight “the conditions in which very young photographers are working” in Myanmar, said Deghati, who had to flee Iran in 1985 after receiving death threats.
The photographer’s work, along with several other Burmese photographers, was on show at Bayeux, the northern French city hosting the prize.
In the written press category, Wolfgang Bauer won for
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