the unexpected choice was also a message sent by this jury to an industry of news photographers. “You don’t have to go to Africa for Ebola, and you don’t have to go to Ukraine for war, to take a great image,” says Mark Baker, the Southeast Asia photo editor of the Associated Press and a jury member. This picture could be taken next door in your neighbor’s house or in the next town. [Nissen’s image] says that there are other images, other moments in life worth capturing. You don’t have to run off to a war to be a World Press Photo winner. That’s a message I think we, as a jury, would like photographers [to consider].”