– Has his own life
Deterring Sigrid Nygaard who has taken the Press Photo of the Year in Denmark.
It was announced on Friday 5. March, the same day as Picture of the Year was chosen here at home. This year it was a picture of a newlywed family who walked away with the victory:
The picture depicts Martin and Nicolai Køster Rimvall who has picked up his Storm in Colombia, five years after they decided to use a surrogate mother.
The jury was in the end “very only” about the winner, it says in the press release.
“The picture of the two fathers in bed with their baby between them is something everyone remembers after putting it on for the first time. It is, in their words, photojournalism at its finest. It shows lived life, it has its own life, and is an image one can discuss now and for a long time to come. Everyone will have their own reason to stop and look at it, and everyone will be able to interpret it in their own way, no matter what background and attitude they have to the image and the theme “, it says in the jury’s reasoning.
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«It is private and intimate, but also debate-creating and narrative about its contemporaries, and not least filled with love that flows in a circle through the touches. Thus, it contains both the dense rum, the love and the surprise in the missing element: the birth mother. This turn catches our attention. We know the scene from our own everyday life, but here is another story. And it’s really nice that it feels so ordinary. “
During the same distribution diaper Jacob Ehrbahn named Press Photographer of the Year.
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