Press photo award for 'haunting' image of migrants

A haunting image of migrants passing a baby underneath a razor-wire fence on the Serbian-Hungarian border won the prestigious World Press Photo award for 2015 — even though it had never been published.

Australian freelance photographer Warren Richardson made the moonlit image on August 28 and said he offered it to two news organisations, neither of which responded.

Jury members, however, saw something special in the black-and-white image. Vaughn Wallace, deputy photo editor for Al Jazeera America, said the image is “incredibly powerful visually, but it’s also very nuanced.”