Photos: 2013 World Press Photo Awards: Swedish Photographer Bags First Prize; Other Winning Images [PHOTOS]
By IB Times Staff Reporter | Feb 16, 2013 07:32 PM EDT
The winners of the 56th annual World Press Photo award was announced in Amsterdam on Friday and Swedish photographer Paul Hansen won the first prize.
The international jury has selected a picture, which shows a group of men carrying the dead bodies of two children through a street in Gaza City, as the "World Press Photo of the Year 2012". The picture was clicked by Paul Hansen of Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.
"The strength of the picture lies in the way it contrasts the anger and sorrow of the adults with the innocence of the children. It's a picture I will not forget," Mayu Mohanna, jury member from Peru, said.
"When I look at the results, as chair of the jury, I think that the World Press Photo of the Year, and all the other photos that were given prizes, were solid, stellar examples of first-rate photojournalism that is powerful, that is lasting, and that will reach whoever looks at them," said, Santiago Lyon, vice president and director of photography at The Associated Press.
There were total nine themed categories including Spot New, General News, Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, Sports Action, Sports Features, Observed Portrait, Staged Portrait and Nature, according to IBTimes. From those nine categories, prizes were given to 54 photographers of 32 nationalities.
Check out the list of winners from the 2013 photo contest here and their photos here.
Check out the gallery of selected winners:
Hansen of Sweden, a photographer working for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, poses holding his picture that won the World Press Photo of the year for 2012, in Stockholm
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Paul Hansen of Sweden has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2012 with this picture of a group of men carrying the bodies of two dead children through a street in Gaza City
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Paul Nicklen of Canada has won the first prize in the Nature Stories category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with the series "Emperor Penguins"
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Emin Ozmen of Turkey has won the second prize in the Spot News Single category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with this picture of Syrian opposition fighters interrogating and torturing an informant in Aleppo
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Rodrigo Abd of Argentina has won the first prize in the General News Single category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with this picture of Aida crying in Idib
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Fabio Bucciarelli of Italy has won the second prize in the Spot News Stories category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with the series "Battle to death"
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Daniel Berehulak of Australia has won the third prize in the General News Stories category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with the series "Japan after the wave"
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Chen Wei Seng of Malaysia has won the first prize in the Sports Action Single category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with this picture of a jockey during the Pacu Jawi bull race in Batu Sangkar
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Sergei Ilnitsky of Russia has won the second prize in the Sports Action Stories category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with the series "The Golden Touch - Fencing at the Olympics"
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Micah Albert of the U.S., has won the first prize in the Contemporary Issues Single category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013with this picture of a woman pausing in the rain as she works as a trash picker at a 30-acre dump in Nairobi
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Maika Elan of Vietnam, a photographer working for MoST, has won the first prize in the Contemporary Issues Stories category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with the series "The Pink Choice, Vietnam"
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Soren Bidstrup of Denmark has won the second prize in the Daily Life Single category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with this picture of a summer holiday camping in Jeselo
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Ananda van der Pluijm of Netherlands has won the third prize in the People - Observed Portraits Stories category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with the series "Martin"
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Fausto Podavini of Italy has won the first prize in the Daily Life Stories category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with the series "Mirella"
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Ilona Szwarc of Poland has won the third prize in the People - Observed Portraits Single category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with this picture of Kayla posing with her lookalike doll in Boston
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Stefen Chow of Malaysia has won the second prize in the People - Staged Portraits Single category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with this picture of Ai Weiwei in Beijing
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Stephan Vanfleteren of Belgium has won the first prize in the People - Staged Portraits Stories category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with the series "People of Mercy, Guinea"
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Christian Ziegler of Germany has won the first prize in the Nature Single category of the World Press Photo Contest 2013 with this picture of an endangered Southern Cassowary feeding on the fruit of the Blue Quandang tree in Black Mountain Road
Source: Reuters Date:02/16/2013
