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1964 Photo Contest, General News, Singles, 1st prize
Photographer

Gennady Koposov

01 January, 1964

A composite image of a baby and a funeral procession of a reindeer shepherd at fifty-five degrees below zero in the northern tundra of Evenkia, in what was then the Soviet Union.

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Gennady Koposov

Gennady Koposov (1938-2001) was 17 years old when his first photograph was published in a newspaper. In 1950s, he joined the Soviet news agency Itar Tass and in 1960 he started w...

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