Penang boy is world's best youth photographer


Tan's photo titled 'Back alley', which earned him the Youth Photographer of the Year prize in the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards.

PETALING JAYA: A still image of an alley behind a house where he grew up landed 19-year-old Tan Yong Lin the title of 'Youth Photographer of the Year" at the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards.

Tan, who won the competition with his entry titled 'Back alley", said it was taken at his grandmother's house in Alor Setar, Kedah.

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