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  • World Press Photo of the Year

    Samuel Aranda

2012 Photo contest

View the entire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from over 100,000 images submitted to the contest.

5,247 photographers
124 nationalities
101,254 pictures

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  • North Korea
    Damir Sagolj
    Never Let You Go
    Alejandro Kirchuck

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Mohammed al-Law
Samuel Aranda
Salil Bera
Vincent Boisot
Henrik Brunnsgård
Eduardo Castaldo
Yasuyoshi Chiba
Joan Costa
Jan Dago
Simona Ghizzoni
David Goldman
Alexander Gronsky
Tomasz Gudzowaty
David Guttenfelder
Johnny Haglund
Niclas Hammarström
Guillaume Herbaut
Paul Hilton
Rob Hornstra
Massoud Hossaini
Alejandro Kirchuk
Ton Koene
Yuri Kozyrev
Huimin Kuang
Emiliano Larizza
Tomasz Lazar
Lars Lindqvist
Alex Majoli
Ray McManus
Donald Miralle, Jr.
John Moore
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
Simon Norfolk
Ebrahim Noroozi
Rémi Ochlik
Darcy Padilla
Pietro Paolini
Pedro Pardo
Paolo Pellegrin
Carsten Peter
Laerke Posselt
Adam Pretty
Pavel Prokopchik
Jenny E. Ross
Denis Rouvre
Damir Sagolj
Stephanie Sinclair
Brent Stirton
Alexander Taran
Koichiro Tezuka
Toshiyuki Tsunenari
Donald Weber
Paolo Woods
Shaofeng Xu
Li Yang
Francesco Zizola
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The Fury of the Tsunami

Koichiro Tezuka
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The Fury of the Tsunami

Koichiro Tezuka
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2012

Tsunami waves hit the town of Natori, in Miyagi prefecture, Japan.

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Utøya

Niclas Hammarström
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Utøya

Niclas Hammarström
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2012

On 22 July, Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people on the small island of Utøya, 40 kilometers northwest of Oslo, in Norway.

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Dawn of a revolution

Eduardo Castaldo
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Dawn of a revolution

Eduardo Castaldo
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2012

Towards the end of January, people in Egypt staged mass protests against the rule of their own leader, President Hosni Mubarak.

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On Revolution Road

Yuri Kozyrev
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On Revolution Road

Yuri Kozyrev
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2012

Rebels battle for Ras Lanuf, an oil-refining town on the Libyan coast, on 11 March.

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Massoud Hossaini
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Massoud Hossaini
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2012

A young Shiite woman stands among the dead and injured, after a bomb blast at the crowded Abu Fazal shrine in Kabul, on 6 December.

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Saving the desperate 'bride'

Li Yang
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Saving the desperate 'bride'

Li Yang
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2012

A young woman in a wedding gown is grabbed by a local community officer, as she tries to commit suicide in Changchun, Jilin province, China.

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Salil Bera
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Salil Bera
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2012

A leopard attacks a forest warden after escaping from the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, in West Bengal, India.

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  • The Jump
    Henrik Brunnsgård
    Infinite Cave
    Carsten Peter

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