Amateur Photographer

China in his hands

During the interview, multi-award-winning Agence France-Presse (AFP) staff photographer Nicolas Asfouri talks a lot about luck and he talks a lot about hard work. When he received the call detailing his World Press 2020 Photo Contest, General News, Stories, 1st Prize (also Story of the Year Nominee) for the reportage, Hong Kong Unrest, he was sleeping. ‘I was shooting around the clock from very, very, early to late. I

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