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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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People of Mercy

Stephan Vanfleteren
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People of Mercy

Stephan Vanfleteren
Staged Portraits
1st prize stories
2013

People receiving treatment on Africa Mercy, a hospital ship docked at Conakry, Guinea.

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Mournful

Ebrahim Noroozi
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Mournful

Ebrahim Noroozi
Staged Portraits
2nd prize stories
2013

Women in the Iranian city of Khorramabad are dressed for the ceremony of Chehel Manbar. The commemoration of the battle of Karbala, when Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was killed, is one of the most important ceremonies of the year for Shia Muslims.

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Miss My Parents So Much

Fu Yongjun
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Miss My Parents So Much

Fu Yongjun
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2013

The portrait series depicts children in the village of Zhangmu, Chongqing, in southwest China, both alone and with a much-loved teacher Fu Huaying.

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Daniel Kaluuya

Nadav Kander
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Daniel Kaluuya

Nadav Kander
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2013

Daniel Kaluuya (23) is a British actor, comedian, and writer, best known for his role in the TV drama Skins, and as Special Agent Tucker in the 2011 Rowan Atkinson film Johnny English Reborn.

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Ai Weiwei

Stefen Chow
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Ai Weiwei

Stefen Chow
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2013

Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei is active across a number of media, including sculpture, installation, architecture, photography and film.

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Zuzia

Anna Bedyńska
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Zuzia

Anna Bedyńska
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2013

Zuzia is a girl with albinism, and attends a school for partially sighted children in Warsaw. She dreams of meeting someone like herself.

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    Daniel Ochoa de Olza
    El Salvador Gangs
    Tomas Munita

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