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  • Spot News, 1st prize singles

    Paul Hansen

2013 Photo Contest

View the entire collection of winning images from the 56th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from over 100,000 images submitted to the contest.

5,666 photographers
124 nationalities
103,481 pictures

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    Denis Rouvre
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    Paul Nicklen

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Rodrigo Abd
Micah Albert
Bernat Armangue
Ammar Awad
Anna Bedyńska
Randall Benton
Daniel Berehulak
Søren Bidstrup
Fabio Bucciarelli
Frederik Buyckx
Vittore Buzzi
Wei Seng Chen
Stefen Chow
Yongzhi Chu
Felipe Dana
Jacob Ehrbahn
Maika Elan
Esteban Felix
Jan Grarup
Marie Hald
Adel Hana
Paul Hansen
Aaron Huey
Sergei Ilnitsky
Nadav Kander
Ali Lutfi
Javier Manzano
Chris McGrath
Emilio Morenatti
Tomás Munita
Dominic Nahr
Paul Nicklen
Ebrahim Noroozi
Daniel Ochoa de Olza
Emin Özmen
Thomas P. Peschak
Nemanja Pančić
Paolo Patrizi
Paolo Pellegrin
Fausto Podavini
Altaf Qadri
Daniel Rodrigues
Alessio Romenzi
Denis Rouvre
Majid Saeedi
Ilona Szwarc
Sebastiano Tomada
Ananda van der Pluijm
Stephan Vanfleteren
Roman Vondrous
Fu Yongjun
Xiaoqun Zheng
Wei Zheng
Christian Ziegler
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Victims of Forced Love

Ebrahim Noroozi
Observed Portraits
1st prize stories

Victims of Forced Love

Ebrahim Noroozi
Observed Portraits
1st prize stories
2013

Somayeh Mehri (29) and Rana Afghanipour (3) are a mother and daughter living in Bam, southern Iran. They were attacked with acid by Somayeh’s husband Amir.

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Bullfighter's Comeback

Daniel Ochoa de Olza
Observed Portraits
2nd prize stories

Bullfighter's Comeback

Daniel Ochoa de Olza
Observed Portraits
2nd prize stories
2013

Spanish bullfighter Juan José Padilla (38), known as the ‘Cyclone of Jerez’, lost the sight in one eye and has partial paralysis of the face, after being gored by a bull in October 2011. Five months later he made a comeback, in the southwestern town of Olivenza.

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Martin

Ananda van der Pluijm
Observed Portraits
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Martin

Ananda van der Pluijm
Observed Portraits
3rd prize stories
2013

Martin (18) is the photographer’s half-brother. He returned to stay with their mother after living with his father for ten years. The photographer, who had had no contact with Martin over the previous decade, decided to use her camera to help get to know him again.

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Little Survivor

Nemanja Pančić
Observed Portraits
1st prize singles

Little Survivor

Nemanja Pančić
Observed Portraits
1st prize singles
2013

Milan (4) leaves the hospital on 27 February, three months after surviving a family suicide attempt in which both his father and mother died.

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Bonnie

Marie Hald
Observed Portraits
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Bonnie

Marie Hald
Observed Portraits
2nd prize singles
2013

Bonnie Cleo Andersen (38), mother of three, has been a sex-worker in Denmark since the age of 18.

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Kayla

Ilona Szwarc
Observed Portraits
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Kayla

Ilona Szwarc
Observed Portraits
3rd prize singles
2013

Kayla stands with her American Girl doll, in front of a portrait of her ancestors at home in Boston.

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    Tomas Munita

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