Japan photographer wins award

Japan photographer wins award

PERPIGNAN, France - Japanese photographer Noriko Hayashi is pictured in Perpignan, southern France, on Sept. 6, 2013, where she won the top award for feature reporting at an annual international festival of photojournalism. The 29-year-old freelancer won the Visa d'or Feature Award at Visa pour l'image for her series of photographs of a bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, in which a man kidnapped a young woman for forced marriage.

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