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winners of the prestigious 55th annual World Press Photo competition were announced in
Amsterdam, and Samuel Aranda from Spain received the prize for World Press Photo of the Year
2011.
The winning photograph shows a woman caring for a wounded relative, inside a mosque used
as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, duringclashes in Sanaa, Yemen on October 15, 2011. Samuel Aranda was working in Yemen on
assignment for The New York Times. He is represented by Corbis Images.
TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev of Noor won first prize in the Spot News Singles category with
his explosive picture of rebels leaping off a tank in Ras Lanuf, Libya.
5,247PHOTOGRAPHERS 124NATIONALITIES 101,254PICTURES
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photographer Samuel Aranda.
The international jury of the 55th annual World Press
Photo Contest announced Friday that it had selected a
picture by Samuel Aranda as the World Press Photo of the
Year 2011.
Jurors said the photo of a veiled woman holding a wounded
relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen captured
multiple facets of the "Arab Spring" uprisings across
the Middle East last year. It was taken at a field hospital inside a
mosque in Sanaa on October 15.
The winning photo was selected from 101,254 images submitted by
5,247 photographers from 124 countries.
SAMUEL ARANDA WINS THE WORLD PRESS PHOTO
OF THE YEAR
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Samuel Aranda of Spain, a photographer working for The New York Times, has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2011
with this picture of a woman holding a wounded relative during protests against president Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen October15, 2011
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Alex Majoli of Italy, a Magnum Photos photographer working for Newsweek, has won the first prize General News Singles
with this picture of protesters crying, chanting and screaming in Tahrir Square after listening to the speech in whichEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would not give up power in Cairo, Egypt, February 10, 2011
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Paolo Pellegrin of Italy, a Magnum Photos photographer working for Zeit Magazin, has won the second prize General News
Stories with the "Tsunami aftermath" series. The devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the northeast coast of Japan triggered hugely destructive tsunami waves of up to 38 meters that struck Japan traveling up to ten kilometers inland.
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Yuri Kozyrev of Russia, a Noor Images photographer working for Time, has won the first prize Spot News Singles with this
picture of rebels in Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 11, 2011. For weeks, rebels held out against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
with the hope that the world would come to their aid. Defiance faded as the dictator's planes and tanks began to retakewhat had been dubbed Free Libya
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Niclas Hammerstrom of Sweden, a photographer working for Aftonbladet, has won the second prize Spot News Stories with
the series "Utoya". Trying to avoid the killers bullets, many people jumped into the cold water in Utoya, Norway, July 22,2011. Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people on 22 July on the small island of Utoya outside Oslo in Norway
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Ray McManus of Ireland, a photographer working for Sportsfile, has won the second prize Sports Singles with this action
picture from a rugby match between Old Belvedere and Blackrock played in heavy rain in Dublin, Ireland.February 5, 2011
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Alejandro Kirchuk of Argentina has won the first prize Daily Life Stories, with the series "Never Let You Go". Marcos leads Monica
from their room to the living room. Although at times he grumbles about the time devoted to her care, Marcos did not see any other
possibility. "Tell me where she is going to be better than here. I treat her like a princess, here she has everything." Marcos, 89, and
Monica, 87, have been married and living in their apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for 65 years. In 2007, Monica was diagnosedwith Alzheimer's disease. Since that moment, her husband devoted all his time to take care of her.
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Jenny E. Ross of the U.S. has won the first prize Nature Singles with this picture of a male polar bear climbing precariously
on the face of a cliff above the ocean at Ostrova Oranskie in northern Novaya Zemlya, Russia June 30, 2011, attempting to
feed on seabird eggs. This bear was marooned on land and unable to feed on seals--its normal prey--because sea ice hadmelted throughout the region and receded far to the north as a result of climate change.
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Stephanie Sinclair of the U.S., a VII Photo Agency photographer working for National Geographic magazine, has won the first prize Contemporary
Issues Stories with the series "Child brides: Too young to wed". Tahani (in pink), who married her husband Majed when she was 6 and he was 25,
poses for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajjah Hajjah, Yemen, June 10, 2010.
Nearly half of all women in Yemen were married as children. Child marriage is outlawed in many countries and international agreements forbid
the practice yet this tradition still spans continents, language, religion and caste.
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Damir Sagolj of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Reuters photographer based in Thailand, has won the first prize Daily Life Singles
with this photograph of a picture of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, decorating a building in the capital Pyongyang
October 5, 2011
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Brent Stirton of South Africa, a Getty Images photographer working for Kiev Independent, has won the first prize
Contemporary Issues Singles with this picture of Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents
in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine August 31, 2011. Maria injects drugs on a daily basis and sees many men every week but claims sheremains HIV negative. She says she need the money to support herself, her drug habit and her nine-year-old daughter.
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Inna Shevchenko, 21, is one of
the leaders of Femen. Thefeminist Ukrainian protest group
organizes topless protests
against sex tourists, sexism and
social problems
2012, Portraits, 2nd prize
singles, Guillaume Herbaut
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Adam Pretty of Australia, a Getty Images photographer, has won the second prize Sports Stories with the "World Swimming
Championships" series. Picture shows divers practicing during the 14th FINA World Championships at the Oriental SportsCenter in Shanghai, China, July 17, 2011.
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Laerke Posselt of Denmark has won the first Prize Portraits Singles
with this picture of Iranian-born Danish actress Mellica Mehraban, in
Copenhagen, May 4, 2011. The 27-year-old Iranian-born actress
Mellica Mehraban grew up in Denmark, but debuted as an actor in
Iran in 2011. Taking the leading role as a villain in the spy drama 'FoxHunting', she learned firsthand about the culture of her native
country: following a regime-approved script, she was required to
wear a head scarf in all scenes, forbidden from swearing, and
learned to show that she was in love with a man without telling him
or touching him.
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Ton Koene of the Netherlands has won the second
prize Portraits Stories with the series "Recruits at
police training center". New Afghan police recruits at
the German police training centre in Kunduz,
Afghanistan. All are illiterate; they are farmer sons
from rural areas who never had any education and are
joining the police for economic reasons. Their loyalty
to the government is thin. A police officer earns
around $170 per month, and due to harsh living andworking conditions and as well the high risk for being
killed by the Taliban, many decide to leave the police
force before their contract ends.
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Yasuyoshi Chiba of Japan, a photographer working for Agence France-Presse, has won the first prize People in the News
Stories with the "Aftermath of the tsunami" series. Chieko Matsukawa shows her daughter's graduation certificate as shefinds it in the debris in Higashimatsushima city, Miyagi prefecture, Japan April 3, 2011.
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Tomasz Lazar of Poland has won the second prize People in the News Singles with this picture of an arrest of protesters
during a demonstration against police tactics and income inequality in Harlem, New York City, October 25, 2011.
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Brent Stirton of South Africa, a Getty Images photographer working for National Geographic magazine, has won first prize
Nature Stories for the "Rhino Wars" series. The picture shows a female rhino in Tugela Private Game Reserve, Colenso,
Natal, South Africa, November 9, 2010, that four months earlier survived a brutal dehorning by poachers who used a
chainsaw to remove her horns and a large section of bone in that area of her skull. The female rhino survived the dehorning
and has joined up with a male bull who now accompanies her. Rhino horn is now worth more than gold on the international
market. South Africa alone has lost more than 400 rhino to illegal poaching incidents in 2011. The demand for Rhino horn isfueled by a wealthy Asian middle and upper class and used overwhelmingly as medication.
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Rob Hornstra of the Netherlands has won the first prize Arts and Entertainment Stories with the series "The Sochi Project: Sochi Singers". Marika
Bajur sings 'Kuriu' in the restaurant Eurasia. The southern Russian city of Sochi lies on the Black Sea and attracts predominantly Russian
holidaymakers who come for a mix of sun, sea, sand and nightlife. Restaurants are plentiful and competition is fierce, with every restaurant
employing a regular live musician blasting Russian chansons and popsa.
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Vincent Boisot of France, a Riva Press photographer working for Le Figaro Magazine, has won the second prize Arts and
Entertainment Singles with this picture of a model posing in front of tailor stalls in the center of Dakar, Senegal, July 9, 2011.She wears the creation of a designer, Yolande Mancini, participating in the 9th edition of Dakar Fashion Week
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An opposition fighter rest under a rebellion flag in the middle of the battlefield oil town Ras Lanouf in Libya.
General News, 1st prize stories, Rémi Ochlik
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Afghan Shia Muslims cry among the dead and injured after explosions during a religious ceremony in the centre of Kabul. At
least 30 people were killed in an explosion at a Kabul shrine where Shia Muslims were marking the Day of Ashura Tuesday.
The blast came in the city centre where they had gathered to carry out religious rituals to mark the day, a public holiday inAfghanistan. Spot News, 2nd prize singles, Massoud Hossaini
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girl fishes in the Congo River, just outside the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She holds the fish in
her mouth, a common practice among people there, because the chance of losing it is less than when holding it in her
hands Daily Life, 2nd prize singles, Johnny Haglund
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A ritual performed by Apashka, or Apa, the local Shaman in Ungurtas, Kazakhstan.
Arts and Entertainment, 3rd prize singles, Pavel Prokopchik
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Hang Ken cave, newly discovered and surveyed, 3.8 kilometers. A British caving team discovered the world’s biggest cave
passage in Vietnam, sometimes up to 200 meters high.
Nature, 2nd prize stories, Carsten Peter
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Electrician Michael Turkanov, 23, after his 20-minute fight. In
the amateur street fighting tournament known as Strelka in
Russia, fighters compete on sand with no time limit, breaks or
rounds, and the fight only stops with a knockout or a fighter’s
surrender. The matches are held in the back lot of the
abandoned Soviet factory Krasnoye Znamya.
Sports, 1st prize stories, Alexander Taran
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