'Staged' Photojournalism Wins Prize

"We pushed the clichés to the limit. We thought the whole thing was so hackneyed that it could never win ... We wanted to call into question the inner-workings of the attitude of the kind of media which portrays human distress with complacency and voyeurism" - Guillaume Chauvin and Remi Hubert, art students at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg who recently won Grand Prix du Photoreportage Etudiant- source

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