General News, 2nd prize
Lars Lindqvist
for Dagens Nyheter
for Dagens Nyheter
15 August, 2008
Georgian soldiers travel near the city of Gori, close to the South Ossetian boundary. Following the escalation in fighting between Georgian forces and separatist militia in the breakaway region of South Ossetia in August, Russian troops intervened and for a while occupied parts of Georgia outside of South Ossetia. They later pulled back under a ceasefire brokered by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.
Lars Lindqvist
Lars Lindqvist is a photojournalist based in Stockholm, Sweden. As a staff photographer for the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, he gets to travel around the world. In 2008, Lindq...
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