World Press Photo: Photograph of a man on fire wins top photo prize – The Washington Post

Perspective | World Press Photo: Photograph of a man on fire wins top photo prize

Photographer Ronaldo Schemidt won the World Press Photo of 2017 title for an image of a Venezuelan demonstrator engulfed in fire.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/04/12/world-press-photo-harrowing-photograph-of-a-man-on-fire-wins-top-photo-prize/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.317e48d4e63b

“It’s a classical photo, but it has an instantaneous energy and dynamic,” said Magdalena Herrera, director of photography at Geo France and the chair of this year’s jury. “The colors, the movement, and it’s very well composed, it has strength. I got an instantaneous emotion.”