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1969 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year
Photographer

Hanns-Jörg Anders

Stern

A young Catholic wears a gasmask during clashes with British troops. People had been fleeing from teargas after a night of street fighting.

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Hanns-Jörg Anders

Hanns-Jörg Anders (Gardelegen, 1942) initially trained to be a commercial clerk. In 1961, Anders won the Deutscher Jugendpreis (Young German Photographers' Prize), and in 1966, h...

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