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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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Reinhard Dirscherl
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Olivier Grunewald
Lu Guang
Tomasz Gudzowaty
Wolfram Hahn
Mike Hutchings
Malte Jäger
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Ed Kashi
Chris Keulen
Olivier Laban-Mattei
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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
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Uwe Weber
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Thomas P. Peschak
Nature
1st prize singles

Thomas P. Peschak
Nature
1st prize singles
2011

A Cape gannet comes in to land during the summer nesting season.

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Reinhard Dirscherl
Nature
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Reinhard Dirscherl
Nature
2nd prize singles
2011

Atlantic sailfish drive sardines into a bait ball off the Yucatan coast, Mexico.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Olivier Grunewald
Nature
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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Olivier Grunewald
Nature
3rd prize singles
2011

The lava lake of Mount Nyiragongo, in the Virunga National Park, bubbles at the bottom of the volcano’s immense crater.

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Oil on Water

Benjamin Lowy
Nature
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Oil on Water

Benjamin Lowy
Nature
1st prize stories
2011

In April, the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling rig, in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, sunk after an explosion.

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Swan Serenade

Stefano Unterthiner
Nature
2nd prize stories

Swan Serenade

Stefano Unterthiner
Nature
2nd prize stories
2011

Whooper swans are a northern hemisphere swan, with a range from Iceland to beyond Japan.

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Living in the Shadow of Mount Bromo’s Wrath

Christophe Archambault
Nature
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Living in the Shadow of Mount Bromo’s Wrath

Christophe Archambault
Nature
3rd prize stories
2011

Mount Bromo volcano, a popular tourist attraction in East Java, Indonesia, began to show signs of activity in November, with a major eruption on 19 December spewing stones and ash 2,000 meters into the air.

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

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