世界報道写真財団が主催する「第58回世界報道写真コンテスト」の審査結果が2月12日に発表され、大賞にはデンマークのマッズ・ニッセン氏が撮影したロシアの同性カップルの写真「ジョンとアレックス（Jon and Alex）」が選ばれた。
Jon and Alex, a gay couple Mads Nissen, Denmark, Scanpix/Panos Pictures
大賞作が捉えた2人のロシア人男性は、同性カップル。殺風景の暗い部屋の中で、1人は天井を見上げ、もう1人は鋭い眼光で前を見据えている。壁に映る影は、2人の心の闇を表しているようにも見える。
この写真は、LGBT（レズビアン、ゲイ、バイセクシャル、トランスジェンダー）と呼ばれる性的マイノリティへの差別解消を訴えている。ロシアは2013年6月、未成年に対して公の場で、ゲイなどの「非伝統的な性的関係」を知らしめる行為を禁止した法律「同性愛宣伝禁止法」を制定。同性愛者の権利を侵害している批判を浴び、欧米首脳らがソチオリンピック開会式をボイコットする事態に発展した。
ニッセン氏は1979年、デンマーク生まれ。大学でフォトジャーナリズムを学んだ後、中国で写真家として活動。現在は、故郷のデンマークに拠点を活躍している。受賞作は「ロシアの同性愛嫌悪」と題した、同氏のプロジェクトの一環として撮影された。
他の受賞作品はこちら。
世界報道写真2014 受賞作品
First Prize Portraits Category, Singles(01 of18)
Moree, New South Wales, Australia\nCaption: Laurinda waits in her purple dress for the bus that will take her to Sunday School. She is among the many socially isolated young women in disadvantaged communities in Australia facing entrenched poverty, racism, trans-generational trauma, violence, addiction, and a range of other barriers to health and well-being.\n (credit:Raphaela Rosella, Australia, Oculi)
First Prize Portraits Category, Singles(02 of18)
Moree, New South Wales, Australia\nCaption: Laurinda waits in her purple dress for the bus that will take her to Sunday School. She is among the many socially isolated young women in disadvantaged communities in Australia facing entrenched poverty, racism, trans-generational trauma, violence, addiction, and a range of other barriers to health and well-being.\n (credit:Raphaela Rosella, Australia, Oculi)
Second Prize Daily Life Category, Stories(03 of18)
Caption: John wears his grandson’s bowler hat\nStory: It was in the afternoon. I was sitting on my grandpa’s couch. The door was slightly open, and I saw light coming through, washed out between the white door and white walls. All of a sudden it all started making sense. I could relate what I was seeing with what I felt. John and Prova, my grandparents. Growing up, I found much love and care from them. They were young and strong.\n\nAs time went by, it shaped everything in its own way. Bodies took different forms and relations went distant. Grandma’s hair turned gray, the walls started peeling off and the objects were all that remained. Everything was contained into one single room. They always love the fact that I take pictures of them because then I spend more time with them, and they don’t feel lonely anymore. After Prova passed away, I try to visit more so John can talk. He tells me stories of their early life, and how they met. There are so many stories. Here, life is silent, suspended. Everything is on a wait; A wait for something that I don’t completely understand.\n (credit:Sarker Protick, Bangladesh)
First Prize General News Category, Singles (04 of18)
26 August, Donetsk, Ukraine\nCaption: Damaged goods lie in a kitchen in downtown Donetsk. Ordinary workers, miners, teachers, pensioners, children, and elderly women and men are in the midst of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Artillery fire killed three people and wounded 10 on 26 August 2014.\n (credit:Sergei Ilnitsky, Russia, European Pressphoto Agency)
Second Prize Contemporary Issues Category, Singles(05 of18)
Yiwu, China\nCaption: Wei, a 19-year-old Chinese worker, wearing a face mask and a Santa hat, stands next to Christmas decorations being dried in a factory as red powder used for coloring hovers in the air. He wears six masks a day and the hat protects his hair from the red dust, which covers workers from head to toe like soot after several hours of work.\n (credit:Ronghui Chen, China, City Express)
Second Prize Sports Category, Singles(06 of18)
East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA\nOdell Beckham (#13) of the New York Giants makes a one-handed touchdown catch in the second quarter against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.\n (credit:Al Bello, USA, Getty Images)
Third Prize Portraits Category, Stories(07 of18)
Breda, The Netherlands\nCadet in the Koninklijke Militaire Academie\nStory: Portraits of cadets from the most important military academies of Europe.\n (credit:Paolo Verzone, Italy, Agence Vu)
First Prize Nature Category, Stories(08 of18)
Caption: When spores of the fungus land on an ant, they penetrate its exoskeleton and enter its brain, compelling the host to leave its normal habitat on the forest floor and scale a nearby tree. Filled to bursting with fungus, the dying ant fastens itself to a leaf or another surface. Fungal stalks burst from the ant\'s husk and rain spores onto ants below to begin the process again. (credit:Anand Varma, USA, for National Geographic Magazine)
Third Prize Contemporary Issues Category, Stories(09 of18)
El Dorado County, California, United States\nCaption: Students in a schoolyard.\n (credit:Tomas van Houtryve, Belgium, VII for Harper’s Magazin)
Second Prize Nature Category, Singles(10 of18)
Lewa Downs, Northern Kenya\nCaption: A group of young Samburu warriors encounter a rhino for the first time in their lives. Most people in Kenya never get the opportunity to see the wildlife that exists literally in their own backyard.\n (credit:Ami Vitale, USA, National Geographic )
First Prize Long-Term Projects(11 of18)
Family Love 1993-2014 – The Julie Project\n28 January 1993, San Francisco, California, USA\nCaption: I first met Julie on January 28, 1993. Julie, 18, stood in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, barefoot, pants unzipped, and an 8 day-old infant in her arms. She lived in San Francisco’s SRO district, a neighborhood of soup kitchens and cheap rooms. Her room was piled with clothes, overfull ashtrays and trash. She lived with Jack, father of her first baby Rachel, and who had given her AIDS. Her first memory of her mother is getting drunk with her at 6 and then being sexually abused by her stepfather. She ran away at 14 and became drug addict at 15. Living in alleys, crack dens, and bunked with more dirty old men than she cared to count. “Rachel,” Julie said, “has given me a reason to live.”\n (credit:Darcy Padilla, USA, Agence Vu)
First Prize General News Category, Stories(12 of18)
Freetown, Sierra Leone\nCaption: Medical staff at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center work to escort a man in the throes of Ebola-induced delirium back into the isolation ward from which he escaped. In a state of confusion, he emerged from the isolation ward and attempted to escape over the back wall of the complex before collapsing in a convulsive state. A complete breakdown of mental facilities is a common stage of advanced Ebola. The man pictured here died shortly after this picture was taken.\n (credit:Pete Muller, USA, Prime for National Geographic / The Washington Post)
Second Prize General News Category, Single(13 of18)
7 June, off the coast of Libya\nShipwrecked people are rescued aboard a boat 20 miles north of Libya by a frigate of the Italian navy. After hundreds of men, women and children had drowned in 2013 off the coast of Sicily and Malta, the Italian government put its navy to work under a campaign called “Mare Nostrum” rescuing refugees at sea. Only in 2014, 170,081 people were rescued and taken to Italy.\n (credit:Massimo Sestini, Italy)
Second Prize Spot News Category, Stories(14 of18)
19-21 February, Kiev, Ukraine\nCaption: A protester calls for medical aid for a comrade shot dead.\nStory caption: After several months of violence, anti-government protesters remained mobilized by holding barricades in Kiev’s Independence Square, known simply as the Maidan. On Saturday, 20 February, unidentified snipers opened fire on unarmed protesters as they were advancing on Instituska Street. According to an official source, 70 protesters were shot dead. Ukrainian riot police claimed that several police officers were wounded or shot dead by snipers as well. An unofficial source said that snipers opened fire on the police and protesters at the same time in order to provoke both camps. 20 February was the bloodiest day of the Maidan protests, and two days after, President Viktor Yanukovych left the country.\n (credit:Jérôme Sessini, France, Magnum Photos for De Standaard)
First Prize Sports Category, Singles(15 of18)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\nCaption: Argentina player Lionel Messi comes to face the World Cup trophy during the final celebrations at Maracana Stadium. His team lost to Germany 1-0, after a goal by Mario Götze in extra time.\n (credit:Bao Tailiang, China, Chengdu Economic Daily)
Second Prize General News Category, Stories(16 of18)
Abuja, Nigeria\nCaption: School uniforms belonging to three of the missing girls.\nStory Caption: In her school notebook, Hauwa Nkeki wrote a letter to her brother: \"Dear Brother Nkeki, Million of greetings goes to you thousand to your friend zero to your enemies.\" Hauwa is one of the nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped by the Islamic militants Boko Haram on 14 April 2014 from their school dormitory in Chibok, a remote village in northern Nigeria. Boko Haram’s name translates roughly to “Western Education is Sinful.” The group believes that girls shouldn’t be in school and boys should only learn the Koran.\n (credit:Glenna Gordon, USA )
First Prize Spot News Category, Singles(17 of18)
March 12, 2014, Istanbul\nCaption: A young girl is pictured after she was wounded during clashes between riot-police and protestors after the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year\'s anti-government protests. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protestors in the capital Ankara, while in Istanbul, crowds shouting anti-government slogans lit a huge fire as they made their way to a cemetery for the burial of Berkin Elvan.\n (credit:Bulent Kilic, Turkey, Agence France-Presse)
First Prize Nature Category, Singles(18 of18)
Suzhou, Anhui Province, China\nA monkey being trained for circus cowers as its trainer approaches. With more than 300 roupes, Suzhou is known as the home of the Chinese circus.\n (credit:Yongzhi Chu, China)
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