World Press Photo Issues Clarification Statement On Controversial Award

After World Press Photo released a statement yesterday in which it stood by the First Place Contemporary Issue Story award given to photographer Giovanni Troilo for a controversial set of photographs called “The Dark Heart Of Europe,” there was much discu

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/world-press-photo-issues-clarification-statement-controversial-award

The photographer told World Press about this photograph, “My cousin accepted to be portrayed while fornicating with a girl in his friend’s car. For them it was not strange. There are parkings popular for the couples exchanging sex with others, also single men and women can watch anonymously the acts through the foggy windows of the cars.