2. Year 1955
Photographer Mogens von Haven
Nationality Denmark
Organization / Publication
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 28-08-1955
Country Denmark
Place Randers
Caption
A competitor tumbles off his motorcycle
during the Motorcross World Championship
at the Volk Mølle race course.
3.
4. Year 1956
Photographer Helmuth Pirath
Nationality West Germany
Organization / PublicationKeystone Press
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date1956
Country West Germany
Place
Caption
A German World War II prisoner, released
by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his
daughter. The child had not seen her father
since she was one-year-old.
5.
6. Year 1957
Photographer Douglas Martin
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication The Associated Press
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 04-09-1957
Country USA
Place Charlotte, North Carolina
Caption
Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly
desegregated Harry Harding High School is mocked by whites on
her first day of school. People threw rocks and screamed at her "Go
back where you came from". Walking beside her is Dr. Edwin
Tompkins, a friend of the family and a professor at the black college
Johnson C. Smith University. After a string of abuses, Dorothy's
family withdrew her from the school after only four days. Across the
United States this week children had been enrolling for the new
school year. In the south tension was particularly high for districts
trying to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling that states should
integrate their schools "with deliberate speed".
7.
8. Year 1958
Photographer Stanislav Tereba
Nationality Czech Republic
Organization / Publication Vecernik Praha
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-09-1958
Country Czechoslovakia
Place Prague
Caption
National Football Championships between
Prague and Bratislava.
9.
10. Year 1960
Photographer Yasushi Nagao
Nationality Japan
Organization / Publication Mainichi
Shimbun
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 12-10-1960
Country Japan
Place Tokyo
Caption
A right-wing student assassinates Inejiro
Asanuma, Socialist Party Chairman, during
his speech at the Hibiya Hall.
11.
12. Year 1962
Photographer Héctor Rondón Lovera
Nationality Venezuela
Organization / Publication La República
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 04-06-1962
Country Venezuela
Place Puerto Cabello
Caption
Priest Luis Padillo offers last rites to a
loyalist soldier who is mortally wounded by
a sniper during military rebellion against
President Bétancourt at Puerto Cabello
naval base.
13.
14. Year 1963
Photographer Malcolm W. Browne
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication The Associated
Press
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 10-06-1963
Country Vietnam
Place Saigon
Caption
Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets
himself ablaze in protest against the
persecution of Buddhists by the South
Vietnamese government.
15.
16. Year 1964
Photographer Don McCullin
Nationality United Kingdom
Organization / Publication The Observer /
Quick / Life
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-04-1964
Country Cyprus
Place Ghaziveram
Caption
A Turkish woman mourns her dead
husband, a victim of the Greek-Turkish civil
war.
17.
18. Year 1965
Photographer Kyoichi Sawada
Nationality Japan
Organization / Publication United Press
International
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-09-1965
Country Vietnam
Place Loc Thuong, Binh Dinh
Caption
A mother and her children wade across a
river to escape US bombing. The US Air
Force had evacuated their village because
it was suspected of being used as a base
camp by the Vietcong.
19.
20. Year 1966
Photographer Kyoichi Sawada
Nationality Japan
Organization / Publication United Press
International
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 24-02-1966
Country Vietnam
Place Tan Binh
Caption
The body of a Vietcong soldier is dragged
behind an American armored vehicle en
route to a burial site after fierce fighting.
21.
22. Year 1967
Photographer Co Rentmeester
Nationality Netherlands, The
Organization / Publication Life
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-05-1967
Country Vietnam
Place
Caption
The commander of an M48 tankgunner of
the US 7th regiment in Vietnam's 'Iron
Triangle'.
23.
24. Year 1968
Photographer Eddie Adams
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication The Associated
Press
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 01-02-1968
Country Vietnam
Place Saigon
Caption
South Vietnam national police chief
Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a suspected
Viet Cong member.
25.
26. Year 1969
Photographer Hanns-Jörg Anders
Nationality Germany
Organization / Publication Stern
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-05-1969
Country United Kingdom
Place Derry, Northern Ireland
Caption
A young Catholic wears a gasmask during
clashes with British troops. People had
been fleeing from teargas after a night of
street fighting.
27.
28. Year 1971
Photographer Wolfgang Peter Geller
Nationality Germany
Organization / Publication
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 29-12-1971
Country West Germany
Place Baltersweiler
Caption
During negotiations on the safe-conduct of
a group of criminals on the run, police
superintendent Gross suddenly shoots
down gang leader Kurt Vicenik. The gang,
who had disappeared after a bank-robbery
in Cologne, re-emerged near Saarbrücken,
carrying a hostage with them. A chase
followed and the police and the robbers
met at Baltersweiler. The two other men
were captured in a wild fight. The men
running away from the bullets are
policemen.
29.
30. Year 1972
Photographer Nick Ut
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication The Associated
Press
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 08-06-1972
Country Vietnam
Place Trang Bang
Caption
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees with
other children after South Vietnamese
planes mistakenly dropped napalm on
South Vietnamese troops and civilians.
31.
32. Year 1973
Photographer Orlando Lagos
Nationality Chile
Organization / Publication The New York
Times
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 11-09-1973
Country Chile
Place Santiago
Caption
Democratically elected President Salvador
Allende moments away from death during
military coup at Moneda presidential
palace.
33.
34. Year 1974
Photographer Ovie Carter
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Chicago
Tribune
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-07-1974
Country Niger
Place Kao
Caption
The Faces of Hunger. A mother comforts
her child, both victims of drought.
35.
36. Year 1975
Photographer Stanley Forman
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Boston Herald
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 22-07-1975
Country USA
Place Boston
Caption
A mother and her daughter are hurled off a
collapsing fire-escape in an apartment
house fire. Together with a fire-fighter, they
waited for the rescue ladder to reach them.
As the fire-fighter climbed onto the ladder,
the fire-escape collapsed under their feet
and they fell to the ground five floors
below. The woman was killed but the child
survived, her fall cushioned by the
woman's body.
37.
38. Year 1976
Photographer Françoise Demulder
Nationality France
Organization / Publication Gamma
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-01-1976
Country Lebanon
Place Beirut
Caption
Palestinian refugees in district La
Quarantaine.
39.
40. Year 1977
Photographer Leslie Hammond
Nationality South Africa
Organization / Publication The Argus
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-08-1977
Country South Africa
Place
Caption
Police throw tear-gas at a group of
chanting residents of the Modderdam
squatter camp protesting against the
demolition of their homes outside Cape
Town.
41.
42. Year 1978
Photographer Sadayuki Mikami
Nationality Japan
Organization / Publication The Associated
Press
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-03-1978
Country Japan
Place Narita
Caption
A demonstrator is engulfed in flames of the
molotov cocktail he was about to throw at
the police during protests against the
construction of the New Tokyo International
Airport. The original Narita Airport plan was
unveiled in 1966. To acquire the initial land,
the government had to evict protesting
landowners. Violent clashes between the
opponents and authorities resulted in 13
deaths, including five police officers. The
new airport opened in May 1978.
43.
44. Year 1979
Photographer David Burnett
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Contact Press
Images
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-11-1979
Country Thailand
Place Sa Keo province
Caption
A Cambodian woman cradles her child
while waiting for food to be distributed at a
refugee camp.
45.
46. Year 1980
Photograph Mike Wells
Nationality United Kingdom
Organization / Publication
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-04-1980
Country Uganda
Place Karamoja district
Caption
A starving boy and a missionary.
47.
48. Year 1981
Photographer Manuel Pérez Barriopedro
Nationality Spain
Organization / Publication Agencia EFE
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 23-02-1981
Country Spain
Place Madrid
Caption
Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina orders
everyone to remain seated and be quiet
after armed Guardia Civil soldiers stormed
the Assembly Hall of the Spanish
Parliament. Three hundred deputies and
cabinet members were in session to vote
upon the succession of premier Suarez.
They were released next morning after
having been held hostage for almost 18
hours; the coup was a failure.
49.
50. Year 1982
Photographer Robin Moyer
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Black Star for
Time
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 18-09-1982
Country Lebanon
Place Beirut
Caption
The war in Lebanon: The aftermath of the
massacre of Palestinians by Christian
Phalangists in the Sabra and Shatila
refugee camps.
51.
52. Year 1983
Photographer Mustafa Bozdemir
Nationality Turkey
Organization / Publication Hürriyet
Gazetesi
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 30-10-1983
Country Turkey
Place Koyunoren
Caption
Kezban Özer (37) finds her five children
buried alive after a devastating earthquake.
At five o'clock in the morning she and her
husband were milking the cows as their
children slept. A few minutes later, 147
villages in the region were destroyed by an
earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter
scale; 1,336 people died.
53.
54. Year 1984
Photographer Pablo Bartholomew
Nationality ndia
Organization / Publication Gamma
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-12-1984
Country India
Place Bhopal
Caption
A child killed by the poisonous gas leak in
the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.
55.
56. Year 1985
Photographer Frank Fournier
Nationality France
Organization / Publication Contact Press
Images
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 16-11-1985
Country Colombia
Place Armero
Caption
Omaira Sanchez (12) is trapped in the
debris caused by the eruption of Nevado
del Ruíz volcano. After sixty hours she
eventually lost consciousness and died of a
heart attack.
57.
58. Year 1986
Photographer Alon Reininger
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Contact Press
Images
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-09-1986
Country USA
Place San Francisco
Caption
Ken Meeks' (42) skin is marked with
lesions caused by Aids-related Kaposi's
Sarcoma.
59.
60. Year 1987
Photographer Anthony Suau
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Black Star
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 18-12-1987
Country South Korea
Place Kuro
Caption
A mother clings to a riot policeman's shield
at a polling station. Her son was one of
thousands of demonstrators arrested
because they tried to prove that the
presidential election on December 15,
which was won by the government
candidate, had been rigged.
61.
62. Year 1988
Photographer David Turnley
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Detroit Free
Press / Black Star
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-12-1988
Country Soviet Union
Place Leninakan
Caption
Boris Abgarzian grieves for his 17-year-old
son, victim of the Armenian earthquake.
63.
64. Year 1989
Photographer Charlie Cole
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Newsweek
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 04-06-1989
Country China
Place Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Caption
A demonstrator confronts a line of People's
Liberation Army tanks during protests for
democratic reform.
65.
66. Year 1990
Photographer Georges Merillon
Nationality France
Organization / Publication Gamma
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 28-01-1990
Country Yugoslavia
Place Nogovac, Kosovo
Caption
Family and neighbors mourn the death of
Elshani Nashim (27), killed during a protest
against the Yugoslavian government's
decision to abolish the autonomy of
Kosovo.
67.
68. Year 1991
Photographer David Turnley
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Detroit Free
Press / Black Star
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-02-1991
Country Iraq
Place
Caption
US Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz (23), gives
vent to his grief as he learns that the body
bag at his feet contains the remains of his
friend Andy Alaniz. 'Friendly fire' claimed
Alaniz's life and injured Kozakiewicz. On
the last day of the Gulf War they were
taken away from the war zone by a MASH
unit evacuation helicopter.
69.
70. Year 1992
Photographer James Nachtwey
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for
Libération
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-11-1992
Country Somalia
Place Bardera
Caption
A mother carries her dead child to the grave, after
wrapping it in a shroud according to local custom. A
bad drought coupled with the effects of civil war
caused a terrible famine in Somalia which claimed the
lives of between one and two million people over a
period of two years, more than 200 a day in the worst
affected areas. The international airlift of relief supplies
which started in July was hampered by heavily armed
gangs of clansmen who looted food storage centers
and slowed down the distribution of the supplies by aid
organizations.
71.
72. Year 1993
Photographer Larry Towell
Nationality Canada
Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-03-1993
Country
Place Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Caption
Boys raise toy guns in a gesture of defiance. The Palestinian
uprising, which began in December 1987, strengthened the
Arab population in their determination to fight the occupying
force. In March Israel closed its border with Gaza, causing a
massive rise in unemployment. With more than 800,000
people contained in the Israeli-patrolled, eight-km-wide strip
of land, bloodshed increased sharply. The peace agreement
signed in Washington on September 13 promised limited
authority for the Gaza Strip and a withdrawal of the Israeli
army.
73.
74. Year 1994
Photographer James Nachtwey
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Time
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-06-1994
Country Rwanda
Place
Caption
A Hutu man at a Red Cross hospital, his face mutilated by the Hutu
'Interahamwe' militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi
rebels. The animosity between the Hutu and Tutsi population groups in
Rwanda had been simmering for decades. In April, the death of Hutu
president Habyarimana in a plane crash near the capital of Kigali sparked
murderous attacks on the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates. The situation
deteriorated further when the mainly Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic
Front (RPF) started pushing south from their stronghold in northern Rwanda.
A mass exodus of people trying to escape excessive violence was underway
by July.
75.
76. Year 1995
Photographer Lucian Perkins
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication The Washington
Post
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-05-1995
Country Russia
Place Chechnya
Caption
A bus on the road leading to Grozny during
fighting between Chechen independence
fighters and Russian troops. The civil war
which erupted when President Yeltsin sent
troops to the rebellious province in
December 1994 was still dragging on
months later. When the Chechen fighters
fled Grozny, the capital, where the war had
claimed a horrendous human and material
toll, Russian troops pursued them into the
countryside to the south and east.
77.
78. Year 1996
Photographer Francesco Zizola
Nationality Italy
Organization / Publication Contrasto
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 00-04-1996
Country Angola
Place Kuito
Caption
Landmine victims in Kuito, a town where
many people were killed and traumatized
during the civil war. To date some 70,000
Angolans, 8,000 of them children, have
been disabled by exploding mines. For
decades colonizers, armies and freedom
fighters laid mines randomly on roads and
bridges in order to disrupt communications.
As a result, there are today probably as
many unexploded land mines in Angola as
there are inhabitants.
79.
80. Year 1997
Photographer Hocine
Nationality Algeria
Organization / Publication Agence France-
Presse
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 23-09-1997
Country Algeria
Place Algiers
Caption
A woman cries outside the Zmirli Hospital,
where the dead and wounded were taken
after a massacre in Bentalha. Mass killings
and bomb blasts dominated life since the
army annulled the results of the 1992
elections, in which it appeared the Muslim
fundamentalist party, FIS, would win. The
conflict had claimed more than 60,000 lives
in five years.
81.
82. Year 1998
Photographer Dayna Smith
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication The Washington
Post
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 06-11-1998
Country Yugoslavia
Place zbica, Kosovo
Caption
A woman is comforted by relatives and
friends at the funeral of her husband. The
man was a soldier with the ethnic Albanian
rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army,
fighting for independence from Serbia. He
had been shot the previous day while on
patrol.
83.
84. Year 1999
Photographer Claus Bjørn Larsen
Nationality Denmark
Organization / Publication Berlingske
Tidende
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 05-04-1999
Country Albania
Place Kukës
Caption
A man walks the streets in one of the
largest gathering points for ethnic Albanian
refugees fleeing violence in Kosovo.
85.
86. Year 2000
Photographer Lara Jo Regan
Nationality USA
Organization / Publicationfor Life
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 03-12-2000
Country USA
Place Las Colonias, Texas
Caption
The mother of a Mexican immigrant family
makes piñatas to support herself and her
children. The family numbers among the
millions of 'uncounted' Americans, people
who for one reason or another have been
missed by the national census and so don't
exist in population records. Census records
determine where new schools, hospitals,
firehouses and basic social services are
needed. Areas like Las Colonias, where
this family lives, thus lack many amenities
and have high illiteracy rates.
87.
88. Year 2001
Photographer Erik Refner
Nationality Denmark
Organization / Publication Berlingske Tidende
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 07-06-2001
Country Pakistan
Place
Caption
The body of a one-year-old boy who died of dehydration is prepared for burial at
Jalozai refugee camp. The child's family, originally from North Afghanistan, had
sought refuge in Pakistan from political instability and the consequences of drought.
The family gave the photographer permission to attend as they washed and
wrapped his body in a white funeral shroud, according to Muslim tradition. In the
overcrowded Jalozai camp, 80,000 refugees from Afghanistan endured squalid
conditions. Decades of political instability and drought drove millions of people over
the border into Pakistan. By June, Jalozai could not cope with the numbers, and
food and shelter were scarce. Although relief workers tried to provide basic health
services, children died from disease or dehydration. Eight months later, the United
Nations closed the camp, moving refugees to other areas.
89.
90. Year 2002
Photographer Eric Grigorian
Nationality Armenia
Organization / Publication Polaris Images
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 23-06-2002
Country Iran
Place Qazvin
Caption
A boy holds his dead father's trousers as
he squats beside the spot where his father
is to be buried, surrounded by soldiers and
villagers digging graves for victims of an
earthquake. The earthquake, measuring
6.0 on the Richter scale, struck on June 23.
Dozens of villages were destroyed and
hundreds of people killed across the
province.
91.
92. Year 2003
Photographer Jean-Marc Bouju
Nationality France
Organization / Publication The Associated Press
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 31-03-2003
Country Iraq
Place
Caption
An Iraqi man comforts his four-year-old son at a holding center for
prisoners of war, in the base camp of the US Army 101st Airborne
Division near An Najaf. The boy had become terrified when,
according to orders, his father was hooded and handcuffed. A
soldier later severed the plastic handcuffs so that the man could
comfort his child. Hoods were placed over detainees' heads
because they were quicker to apply than blindfolds. The military
said the bags were used to disorient prisoners and protect their
identities. It is not known what happened to the man or the boy.
93.
94. Year 2004
Photographer Arko Datta
Nationality India
Organization / Publication Reuters
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 28-12-2004
Country India
Place Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
Caption
A woman mourns a relative killed in the tsunami. On December 26,
a 9.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia,
triggered a series of deadly waves that traveled across the Indian
Ocean, wreaking havoc in nine Asian countries, and causing
fatalities as far away as Somalia and Tanzania. The quake was so
strong that it altered the tilt of the planet by 2.5cm. More than
200,000 people died or were reported missing, and millions were
left destitute in the worst natural disaster in living memory. In India,
the fishing communities in Tamil Nadu were among the worst hit,
with homes, lives and livelihoods being wiped away.
95.
96. Year 2005
Photographer Finbarr O'Reilly
Nationality Canada
Organization / Publication Reuters
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 01-08-2005
Country Niger
Place Tahoua
Caption
The fingers of malnourished Alassa Galisou (1) are pressed against
the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding center.
One of the worst droughts in recent times, together with a particularly
heavy plague of locusts that had destroyed the previous year's
harvest, left millions of people severely short of food. Heavy rains
promised well for the 2005 crops, but hindered aid workers bringing
supplies. Relief had been slow to come. Accusations were leveled
variously blaming the United Nations, Western governments, the
international aid community and officials in Niger itself for failing to
respond early enough to an imminent crisis.
97.
98. Year 2006
Photographer Spencer Platt
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication Getty Images
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 15-08-2006
Country Lebanon
Place Beirut
Caption
Young Lebanese drive down a street in
Haret Hreik, a bombed neighborhood in
southern Beirut. For nearly five weeks
Israel had been targeting that part of the
city and towns across southern Lebanon in
a campaign against Hezbollah militants. As
a ceasefire gradually came into force from
August 14, thousands of Lebanese began
to return to their homes. According to the
Lebanese government, 15,000 homes and
900 commercial concerns were damaged.
99.
100. Year 2007
Photographer Tim Hetherington
Nationality United Kingdom
Organization / Publication Vanity Fair
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 16-09-2007
Country Afghanistan
Place Korengal Valley
Caption
A soldier of Second Platoon, Battle
Company of the Second Battalion of the
US 503rd Infantry Regiment sinks onto an
embankment in the Restrepo bunker at the
end of the day. The Korengal Valley was
the epicenter of the US fight against
militant Islam in Afghanistan and the scene
of some of the deadliest combat in the
region.
101.
102. Year 2008
Photographer Anthony Suau
Nationality USA
Organization / Publication for Time
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 26-03-2008
Country USA
Place Cleveland, Ohio
Caption
Detective Robert Kole of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office enters a home,
following mortgage foreclosure and eviction. He needs to check that the
owners have vacated the premises, and that no weapons have been left lying
around. Officers go in at gunpoint as a precaution, as many houses have
been vandalized or occupied by squatters or drug addicts. Towards the end of
2007, the severity of losses to US banks incurred over sub-prime mortgages
was beginning to emerge. In the first months of 2008, rising interest rates
together with increasing unemployment and a slowdown in the housing
market, meant that many borrowers could no longer afford payments on their
homes. Banks involved heavily in such debts were threatened with collapse.
In the following months the financial crisis spread worldwide.
103.
104. Year 2009
Photographer Pietro Masturzo
Nationality Italy
Organization / Publication
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 24-06-2009
Country Iran
Place Tehran
Caption
Women shout their dissent from a Tehran
rooftop on 24 June, following Iran's
disputed presidential election. The result
had been a victory for President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad over opposition candidate Mir
Hossein Mousavi, but there were
allegations of vote-rigging. In the ensuing
weeks, violent demonstrations took place
in the streets. At night, people shouted
from the roofs, an echo of protests that
took place during the 1979 Islamic
Revolution.
105.
106. Year 2010
Photographer Jodi Bieber
Nationality South Africa
Organization / Publication
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 15-07- 2010
Country Afghanistan
Place Kabul
Caption
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. When she reached puberty she was married to
him, but she later returned to her parents’ home, complaining of violent treatment
by her in-laws. Men arrived there one night demanding that she be handed over to
be punished for running away. Aisha was taken to a mountain clearing, where, at
the orders of a Taliban commander, she was held down and had first her ears
sliced off, then her nose. In local culture, a man who has been shamed by his wife
is said to have lost his nose, and this is seen as punishment in return. Aisha was
abandoned, but later rescued and taken to a shelter in Kabul run by the aid
organization Women for Afghan Women, where she was given treatment and
psychological help. After time in the refuge, she was taken to America to receive
further counseling and reconstructive surgery.
107.
108. Year 2011
Photographer Samuel Aranda
Nationality Spain
Organization / Publication
Category World Press Photo of the Year
Prize World Press Photo of the Year
Date 15-10-2011
Country Yemen
Place Sanaa
Caption
Fatima al-Qaws cradles her son Zayed (18), who is suffering from the effects of tear gas
after participating in a street demonstration, in Sanaa, Yemen, on 15 October. Ongoing
protests against the 33-year-long regime of authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh
escalated that day. Witnesses said that thousands marched down Zubairy Street, a main
city thoroughfare, and were fired on when they reached a government checkpoint near
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some demonstrators retreated, others carried on and
were shot at again. At least 12 people were killed and some 30 injured. Ms Qaws—who
was herself involved in resistance to the regime—found her son after a second visit to
look for him, among the wounded at a mosque that was being used as a temporary field
hospital. Zayed remained in a coma for two days after the incident. He was injured on
two further occasions, as demonstrations continued. On 23 November, President Saleh
flew to Saudi Arabia, and signed an agreement transferring power to his deputy,
Abdurabu Mansur Hadi. Saleh’s rule ended formally when Hadi was sworn in as
president, following an election, on 25 February 2012.
109. cast PrizeWorld Press Photo of the Year
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