World Press Photo Contest Announces Winners

A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Samuel Aranda with the caption “a woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanna, Yemen, on Oct. 15, 2011”.

Samuel Aranda won the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 with this picture.

The World Press Photo Contest, the world’s largest annual press photography contest, announced its winners in Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands on Friday.

A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Brent Stirton with the caption “Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine on Aug. 31, 2011”.

Brent Stirton of South Africa won the first prize Contemporary Issues Singles of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 with this picture.

A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Stephanie Sinclair with the caption “Tahani (1st L), who married her husband Majed when she was 6 and he was 25, poesing for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajjah, Yemen, on June 10, 2011”.

Stephanie Sinclair won the first prize Contemporary Issues Stories of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 with the series “Child Brides”.

handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Yasuyoshi Chiba with the caption “Chieko Matsukawa shows her daughter’s graduation certificate as she found it in the debris in Higashimatsushima city, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on April 3, 2011.”

Yasuyoshi Chiba of Japan won the first prize People in the News Stories of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 with the series “Tsunami”.

A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Jenny E. Ross with the caption “a male polar bear climbs precariously on the face of a cliff above the ocean at Ostrova Oranskie in northern Novaya Zemlya, Russia, on July, 30, 2011, attempting to feed on seabird eggs”.

Jenny E. Ross of the U.S. won the first prize Nature Singles of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 with this picture.

A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Alejandro Kirchuk with the caption “Marcos leads Monica from her bedroom to the living room in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 26, 2009”.

Alejandro Kirchuk of Argentina won the first prize Daily Life Stories of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 with the series “Never Let You Go”.

A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Brent Stirton with the caption “a female rhino in Natal, South Africa, that four mouths survived a brutal dehorning by poachers who used a chainsaw to remove her horns and a large section of bone in this area of her skull, on Nov. 9, 2010”.

Brent Stirton of South Africa won the first prize Nature Stories of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 with the series “Rhino Wars”.

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