On August 5, 2020, the Danish photographer Mads Nissen captured the moment when Rosa Luzia Lunardi (85 years old) is embraced by the nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souzaat the Viva Bem residence in São Paulo, Brazil. Now, this image has been awarded as the best photojournalistic photo of the year by the World Press Photo Foundation.
An independent jury selected it as the winner of the competition under the name of The First Embrace ("The First Embrace").
An iconic image of the covid-19 that immortalizes the most extraordinary moment of our lives. (In it) I read about vulnerability, loved ones, loss and separation, death, but, more importantly, also survival. It's all in one image.
Kevin WY Lee, photographer and jury creative director
The jury valued 74,470 photographs by 4,315 photographers before selecting the winners in eight categories: general news, sports, environment and portraits.
Mads Nissen graduated from the Danish School of Journalism in 2007 and moved to Shanghai to photograph the consequences of China's economic rise. She is the second time he has won the award for the best photography of the year awarded by the World Press Photo Foundationthe previous time was in 2015. He is now based in Copenhagen and works as a photographer for the Danish newspaper Politiken.
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