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Friday, February 15, 2013

World Press Photo


World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam,Netherlands . Founded in 1955 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

World Press Photo of the Year - Winners

Year 2012

Photographer - Swedish photographer Paul Hansen

Subject - Israeli missile strike on Nov 20,2012

Description - Two Palestinian children killed in an Israeli missile strike being carried to their funeral

 

 

Year - 2011

Photographer - Samuel Aranda                    

Subject -   Protests in Yemen  

Description

  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 15 October 2011  

    

Year - 2010

Photographer - Jodi Bieber                

Subject -   Taliban Treatment of Women

Description

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

 

Year - 2009

Photographer - Pietro Masturzo           

Subject -   2009 Iranian Presidential Election

Description

An Iranian woman shouting from a rooftop in Tehran in protest against the result of Iranian Presidential Elections held in 2009

 

 

 

 

     

      

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