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This year’s World Press Photo of the Year competition has been won by Yasuyoshi Chiba’s photograph Straight Voice, the Amsterdam-based competition organisers announced online on Thursday evening.

The winning image shows a young man, illuminated by mobile phones, reciting protest poetry while demonstrators chant slogans calling for civilian rule, during a blackout in Khartoum, Sudan, on 19 June 2019.

‘This moment was the only peaceful group protest I encountered during my stay. I felt their undefeated solidarity like burning embers that remain to flare up again,’ Yasuyoshi Chiba, said of his photograph.Chiba, from Japan, is Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer for East Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Jury chairman Lekgetho Makola said the winning entry is an image that inspires at a time of violence and conflicts. ‘We see this young person, who is not shooting, who is not throwing a stone, but reciting a poem,’ he said. ‘It’s acknowledging, but also voicing a sense of hope.’

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https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/0...d-press-photo/