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  • World Press Photo of the Year

    Jodi Bieber

2011 Photo Contest

View the entire collection of winning images from the 54th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from a record number of images submitted to the contest.

5,691 photographers
125 nationalities
108,059 pictures

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  • Targeted Killings in Karachi
    Massimo Berruti
    Couchsurfin' Around the World
    Malte Jäger

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Christophe Archambault
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Massimo Berruti
Jodi Bieber
Andrew Biraj
Fernando Brito
Joost van den Broek
Steve Christo
Gustavo Cuevas
Fabio Cuttica
Filip Cwik
Marco Di Lauro
Reinhard Dirscherl
Sarah Elliott
Corentin Fohlen
Olivier Grunewald
Lu Guang
Tomasz Gudzowaty
Wolfram Hahn
Mike Hutchings
Malte Jäger
Kemal Jufri
Ed Kashi
Chris Keulen
Olivier Laban-Mattei
Péter Lakatos
Benjamin Lowy
Amit Madheshiya
Javier Manzano
Andrew McConnell
Fernando Moleres
Davide Monteleone
Daniel Morel
Seamus Murphy
Mads Nissen
Guang Niu
Kenneth O'Halloran
Feisal Omar
Ed Ou
Thomas P. Peschak
Darcy Padilla
Adam Pretty
Altaf Qadri
Martin Roemers
Ivo Saglietti
Amit Sha'al
Daniele Tamagni
Stefano Unterthiner
Guillem Valle
Riccardo Venturi
Alexandre Vieira
Uwe Weber
Michael Wolf
Vincent Yu
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Niger, ‘Food Crisis’

Marco Di Lauro
Contemporary Issues
1st prize singles

Niger, ‘Food Crisis’

Marco Di Lauro
Contemporary Issues
1st prize singles
2011

Entrails and skeletons of dead livestock lie in the Gadabedji reserve in the Maradi region of Niger in western Africa.

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Agent Orange

Ed Kashi
Contemporary Issues
2nd prize singles

Agent Orange

Ed Kashi
Contemporary Issues
2nd prize singles
2011

Nguyen Thi Li, aged 9, who lives in the Ngu Hanh Son district of Da Nang in Vietnam, suffers from disabilities believed to be caused by the defoliating chemical Agent Orange.

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Srebrenica Massacre – 15th Anniversary

Ivo Saglietti
Contemporary Issues
3rd prize singles

Srebrenica Massacre – 15th Anniversary

Ivo Saglietti
Contemporary Issues
3rd prize singles
2011

Relatives of victims mourn at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery on the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

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A series of unfortunate events

Michael Wolf
Contemporary Issues
Honorable Mention stories

A series of unfortunate events

Michael Wolf
Contemporary Issues
Honorable Mention stories
2011

‘A series of unfortunate events’, all photographed from Google Street View, taken by placing a camera on a tripod in front of a computer screen in Paris.

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Escape from Somalia

Ed Ou
Contemporary Issues
1st prize stories

Escape from Somalia

Ed Ou
Contemporary Issues
1st prize stories
2011

Every year, thousands of people risk their lives crossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen to escape conflict and poverty in the Horn of Africa.

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The Julie Project

Darcy Padilla
Contemporary Issues
2nd prize stories

The Julie Project

Darcy Padilla
Contemporary Issues
2nd prize stories
2011

For 18 years the photographer documented the life of Julie Baird, whom she met by chance in San Francisco. Julie was then 18 and HIV positive, with a newborn child and a history of drug abuse.

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Poor Choices

Sarah Elliott
Contemporary Issues
3rd prize stories

Poor Choices

Sarah Elliott
Contemporary Issues
3rd prize stories
2011

Each year, at least 2,600 Kenyan women die after illegal abortions and 21,000 are hospitalized with complications from unsafe procedures.

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    Fabio Cuttica
    The Flying Cholitas, Goddesses of the Ring
    Daniele Tamagni

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