Why a photo of Xi Jinping holding an umbrella won China’s top photojournalism prize – The Washington Post

Why a photo of Xi Jinping holding an umbrella won China’s top photojournalism prize

An unusually revealing prize for modern China.

via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/22/why-a-photo-of-xi-jinping-holding-an-umbrella-won-chinas-top-photojournalism-prize/

In the moment captured, one of the most important people in the world is looking decidedly like an average Joe.