Veteran Getty photographer John Moore's image of a toddler crying at the US-Mexico border won the prestigious World Press Photo Award. The image was taken after Honduran mother Sandra Sanchez and her daughter Yanela illegally crossed the US-Mexican border last year. The image portrayed a "a different kind of violence that is psychological".
The image was published world-wide and caused a public outcry about Washington's controversial policy to separate thousands of migrants from their children. The image also resulted in Trump, eventually reversing the policy last year, even though Yanel and her mother were not separated according to US Customs and Border Protection officials.
Moore was taking pictures of US Border Patrol agents at the Rio Grande Valley on June 12 last year when they came across a group of people who tried to cross the border.
"I could see the fear on their faces, in their eyes," Moore told the US-based National Public Radio broadcaster in an interview shortly afterwards.
As officials took their names, Moore said he spotted Sandra Sanchez and her toddler who started wailing when her mom put her down to be searched.
"I took a knee and had very few frames of that moment before it was over," said Moore, who had been covering the US-Mexico border for a decade.
The sensitive issue of immigration was further highlighted at the awards.
Pieter Ten Hoopen's images of 2018 mass-migrant caravan to the US border was selected as the winner in the World Press Photo Story of the Year Award.
