World Press Photo

World Press Photo is an Independent, Non-profit Organization founded in 1955 based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.The organization is known for holding the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest.A yearbook presenting all prizewinning entries is published annually in 6 languages.
In addition to selecting the World Press Photo of the Year, the contest determines winners in the following categories -

• Spot News
• General News
• People in the News
• Sports Action
• Sports Features
• Contemporary Issues
• Daily Life
• Portraits
• Arts and Entertainment
• Nature.

 The prize-winning entries of World Press Photo Contest 2012, the world's largest annual press photography contest, were announced Feb 10,2012.

New York Times photographer Samuel Aranda has won the 'Photo of the Year 2011' award with this picture of a woman holding a wounded relative during protests against president Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen

The 1st prize for 'Contemporary Issues' singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest has been won by Brent Stirton of South Africa. The photo shows Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine

The 1st prize for 'Portraits' singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest has been won by Laerke Posselt of Denmark. The photo shows Iranian-born Danish actress Mellica Mehraban in Copenhagen

Stephanie Sinclair of National Geographic magazine, has won the first prize in 'Contemporary Issues Stories' with the series 'Child brides: Too young to wed'. Tahani (in pink), who married Majed when she was 6 and he was 25, poses for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, in Hajjah Hajjah, Yemen

The 1st prize in 'Nature Stories' category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest has been won by Brent Stirton of South Africa .The photo shows 'Rhino Wars' at a game reserve in Natal

  
  
World Press Photo of the Year 2011
Samuel Aranda,a Spanish photojournalist is the winner for his picture of  ' Protests In Yemen' -A woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on Oct 15, 2011

World Press Photo of the Year 2010
Jodi Bieber is the winner for his picture of 'Taliban Treatment of Women' - Bibi Aisha, 18, was disfigured as retribution for fleeing her husband’s house in Oruzgan province, in the center of Afghanistan. At the age of 12, Aisha and her younger sister had been given to the family of a Taliban fighter under a Pashtun tribal custom for settling disputes

  
World Press Photo of the Year 2009
Pietro Masturzo ,an Italian Freelance Photographer is the winner for his picture of an Iranian woman shouting from a rooftop in Tehran in protest against the result of Iranian Presidential Elections held in 2009

 World Press Photo of the Year 2008
Anthony Suau, USA, for Time is the winner(2nd time ,the first in 1987) for his picture of US Economy in Crisis: Following eviction, Detective Robert Kole must ensure residents have moved out of their home, Cleveland, Ohio

World Press Photo of the Year 2007
Tim Hetherington, UK, for Vanity Fair is the winner for his picture of American soldier resting at bunker, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan

  


World Press Photo of the Year 2006
Spencer Platt, USA, Getty Images, is the winner for his picture of Young Lebanese drive through devastated neighborhood of South Beirut

   
World Press Photo of the Year 2005
Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly is the winner of the World Press Photo of the Year Award. His picture of a child's hand pressed against his mother's at an emergency feeding centre in Niger was described as having "beauty, horror and despair"

World Press Photo of the Year 2004
Indian photographer Arko Datta of Reuters is the winner  for his picture of an Indian woman mourning a relative killed in the Asian tsunami was taken in Tamil Nadu on Dec 28,2004