2013-ലെ വേള്‍ഡ് പ്രസ് ഫോട്ടോ മല്‍സരത്തില്‍ സമ്മാനര്‍ഹമായ ചിത്രങ്ങള്‍
55 വര്‍ഷത്തിലേറെയായി വേള്‍ഡ് പ്രസ് ഫോട്ടോ ഫോട്ടോമല്‍സരം സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചുതുടങ്ങിയിട്ട്. ലോകത്താകെയുള്ള പതിനായിരക്കണക്കിന് ഫോട്ടോകള്‍ മല്‍സരത്തിന് പരിഗണിക്കാറുണ്ട്. തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ചിത്രങ്ങള്‍ 45 രാജ്യങ്ങളില്‍ പ്രദര്‍ശനം നടത്തുന്ന പതിവുമുണ്ട്. 2 മില്ല്യണിലധികം ആളുകള്‍ ഓരോ വര്‍ഷവും പ്രദര്‍ശനം കാണാനെത്തുന്നു. 2013-ലെ വേള്‍ഡ് പ്രസ് ഫോട്ടോമല്‍സരത്തില്‍ തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ചില ചിത്രങ്ങള്‍ ചുവടെ. കടപ്പാട്: വേള്‍ഡ് പ്രസ്
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World Press Photo of the Year 2012 - Paul Hansen/Sweeden/Dagens Nyheter.
Nov. 20, 2012, Gaza City, Palestinian Territories. Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and her three-year-old brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike. Their father, Fouad, was also killed and their mother was put in intensive care. Fouad's brothers carry his children to the mosque for the burial ceremony as his body is carried behind on a stretcher. |
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| 2nd Prize, Spot News Single - Emin Ozmen/Turkey - July 31, 2012, Aleppo, Syria. Opposition fighters regularly launched operations to seize government informants after dark. Two informants were captured, declared guilty under interrogation, and tortured throughout the night; tired soldiers had to be replaced so the torture could continue. After 48 hours, the captives were released. |
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Adel Hana, Spot News,3rd prize singles 2013.
20 November 2012- Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles dragging the body of a man who was killed earlier as a suspected collaborator with Israel. |
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VICTIMS OF FORCED LOVE, Ebrahim Noroozi, Observed Portraits, 1st prize stories
2013Somayeh before being attacked with acid. Somayeh Mehri, 29, and her three-year-old daughter Ra'na live in a small town in one of the poorest regions in Iran. Somayeh's husband, Amir Afghanipour, a thief and drug addict, hit her and locked her up many times. If she followed through with plans to divorce, he threatened that she would not live her life with her face. Then one night in June 2011, he poured a bucket of acid on his wife and child while they slept. Their faces, hands, and bodies were severely burned; Somayeh lost her ability to see and Ra'ana lost one of her eyes. Somayeh still needs hundreds of surgeries and Ra'na needs more than 70. The government and villagers have paid for some of these surgeries, sometimes selling their land to pay for more operations.
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VICTIMS OF FORCED LOVE, Ebrahim Noroozi, Observed Portraits, 1st prize stories
2013Somayeh before being attacked with acid. Somayeh Mehri, 29, and her three-year-old daughter Ra'na live in a small town in one of the poorest regions in Iran. Somayeh's husband, Amir Afghanipour, a thief and drug addict, hit her and locked her up many times. If she followed through with plans to divorce, he threatened that she would not live her life with her face. Then one night in June 2011, he poured a bucket of acid on his wife and child while they slept. Their faces, hands, and bodies were severely burned; Somayeh lost her ability to see and Ra'ana lost one of her eyes. Somayeh still needs hundreds of surgeries and Ra'na needs more than 70. The government and villagers have paid for some of these surgeries, sometimes selling their land to pay for more operations. |
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| 1st Prize Daily Life Stories - Fausto Podavini/Italy - Mirella - June 1, 2012, Rome, Italy. Despite her husband's life-threatening disease, Mirella devoted her life to assisting Luigi, trying to be positive and reassuring, looking after him with intense love and respect. Everyday care, usually done in a few minutes, takes hours when it concerns someone with dementia. Mirella, 71, spent 43 years of her life with the only person she loved, with all of life's difficulties, laughter, and beautiful moments. But over the last six years things changed: Mirella lived with her husband Luigi's illness, Alzheimer's, and devoted her life to him as his caregiver |
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| 1st Prize People - Staged Portraits Stories - Stephan Vanfleteren/Belgium/Panos for Mercy Ships/De Standaard - People of Mercy, Guinea - Oct. 17, 2012, Conakry, Guinea. Makone Soumaoro, 30, goiter. 'I don't have pain, but I am worried that my neck swells that much. I hope it it is not a tumor because I am a housewife and my man and three children need me.' Guinea is one of the least developed countries in the world. More than 60 percent of the population lives on less than one dollar per day. Three quarters of the population is illiterate. Health care is substandard and unaffordable for most people. Some get help with their health problems from NGO Mercy Ships aboard the hospital ship 'African Mercy' docked in the capital Conakry. They are treated by volunteer surgeons, doctors and nurses with such health issues as cataracts, teeth problems, and skin diseases to more complex orthopedic or tumor surgeries. |
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Bernat Armangue, Spot News, 1st prize stories 2013. 18 November 2012.
Series chronicling the latest escalation between Palestine and Israel. |
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| 2nd Prize Spot News Stories - Fabio Bucciarelli/Italy/Agence France-Presse - Oct. 10, 2012, Aleppo, Syria. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up a position during clashes against government forces in the Sulemain Halabi district. |
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| Maika Elan, Contemporary Issues, 1st prize stories 2013. 10 July 2011. Vietnam has historically been unwelcoming to same-sex relationships. But its Communist government is considering recognizing same-sex marriage, a move that would make it the first Asian country to do so. |
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| 1st Prize General News Single - Rodrigo And, Argentina, The Associated Press - March 10, 2012, Idib, Syria. Aida cries while recovering from severe injuries she received when her house was shelled by the Syrian Army. Her husband and two children were fatally wounded during the shelling . |
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| 2nd Prize Daily Life Singles - Soren Bidstrup/Denmark/Berlingske - Early Morning on Summer Holiday, Italy - July 8, 2012, Jeselo, Italy. Summer holiday camping. Someone is up a little too early. |
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| Majid Saeedi. Contemporary Issues ,2nd prize stories 2013, Afghanistan has dealt with decades of war. Despite poverty, drug addiction, and lack of education, life goes on in Afghanistan as people continue to try to heal and live with hope. |
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| 1st Prize Sports - Sports Action Single - Wei Seng Chen/Malaysia - Pacu Jawi Bull Race, Indonesia - Feb. 12, 2012, Batu Sangkar, West Sumatra, Indonesia. A jockey, his feet stepped into a harness strapped to the bulls and clutching their tails, shows relief and joy at the end of a dangerous run across rice fields. The Pacu Jawi (bull race) is a popular competition at the end of harvest season keenly contested between villages. |
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| 2nd Prize Sports - Sports Action Stories - Sergei Ilnitsky/Russia/European Pressphoto Agency - The Golden Touch, Fencing at the Olympics, July 31, 2012, London, UK. Alaaeldin Abouelkassem of Egypt in action against Peter Joppich of Germany during their Men's Foil Individual Round 16 match. Years of training, thousands of battles, and hundreds of victories prepared fencing competitors for the opportunity to stand on the piste at the 2012 London Olympic Games to fight for gold. |
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| 3rd Prize General News Stories - Daniel Berehulak/Australia/Getty Images - Japan After the Wave - March 7, 2012, Rikuzentakata, Japan. Pine trees uprooted during the tsunami lay strewn over the beach.One year later, areas of Japan most impacted by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that left 15,848 dead and 3,305 missing, continue to struggle. Thousands of people remain living in temporary dwellings. The government faces an uphill battle with the need to dispose of rubble as it works to rebuild economies and livelihoods. |
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JAPAN AFTER THE WAVE, Daniel Berehulak, General News, 3rd prize stories
2013. One year later, areas of Japan most impacted by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that left 15,848 dead and 3,305 missing, continue to struggle. |
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| 1st Prize Contemporary Issues Stories - Maika Elan/Vietnam/Most - The Pink Choice, Vietnam - June 22, 2012, Da Nang, Vietnam. Phan Thi Thuy Vy and Dang Thi Bich Bay, who have been together for one year, watch television to relax after studying at school. Vietnam has historically been unwelcoming to same-sex relationships. But its Communist government is considering recognizing same-sex marriage, a move that would make it the first Asian country to do so, despite past human rights issues and a long-standing stigma. In August 2012, the country's first public gay pride parade took place in Hanoi. |
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BONNIE, Marie Hald, Observed Portraits 2nd prize singles 2013.
Since the age of 18, Bonnie Cleo Andersen has been working as a prostitute, a profession legal in Denmark since 1999. |
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| 1st Prize Sports - Sports Features Stories - Jan Grarup/Denmark/Laif - Women's Basketball, Mogadishu, Somalia - Feb. 21, 2012, Mogadishu, Somalia. The Somali basketball association pays armed guards to watch over and protect Suweys and her team when they play. In Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia, young women risk their lives to play basketball. Suweys, the 19-year-old captain of a women's basketball team, and her friends defy radical Islamist views on women's rights. They have received many death threats from not only al-Shabaab militias and radical Islamists, but some male members of their own families. 'I just want to dunk,' said Suweys. It is on the basketball court she feels happiest. 'Basketball makes me forget all my problems. |
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FOOTBALL IN GUINEA-BISSAU, Daniel Rodrigues, Daily Life 1st prize singles
2013 , Many young football players around the world touch their first ball on a field of bare dirt. |
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| 1st Prize Contemporary Issues Single - Micah Albert/USA/Redux Images - April 3, 2012, Nairobi, Kenya. Pausing in the rain, a woman working as a trash picker at the 30-acre dump, which literally spills into households of one million people living in nearby slums, wishes she had more time to look at the books she comes across. She even likes the industrial parts catalogs. 'It gives me something else to do in the day besides picking [trash],' she said. |
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| 3rd Prize People - Observed Portraits Single - Ilona Szwarc/Poland/Redux Pictures - Kayla, Boston, USA - Feb. 19, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, USA - 'American Girl' is a popular line of dolls that can be customized to look exactly like their owners. Kayla poses with her lookalike doll in front of a portrait of her ancestors. |
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| MIRELLA, Fausto Podavini , Daily Life 1st prize stories 2013. Mirella, 71, spent 43 years of her life with the only person she loved. But when her husband Luigi was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she devoted her life to him as his caregiver. |
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| 3rd Prize People - Observed Portraits Stories - Ananda van deer Pluijm/The Netherlands - Martin - Feb. 15, 2012, Tilburg, The Netherlands. After living with his father for ten years and staying in a youth shelter, Martin, 18, returned home two years ago to live with his mother. He arrived with some clothes in a bag and no work or degree. |
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WARM UP, Yongzhi Chu, Sports Action, 2nd prize singles 2013,
Young male gymnasts stretch their legs as a female gymnast jumps onstage during a warmup at a youth sports school in Zhejiang Province.
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LITTLE SURVIVOR, Nemanja Pancic, Observed Portraits 1st prize singles 2013.
Milan Ponjiger survived a fall from the sixth floor, but his mother and father did not. |
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| 2nd Prize People - Staged Portraits Single - Stefen Chow/Malaysia/for Smithsonian Magazine - Ai Wei Wei - Feb. 6, 2012, Beijing, China - Ai Weiwe |
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| 1st Prize Nature Single - Christian Ziegler/Germany/Southern Cassowary, Australia - Nov. 16, 2012, Black Mountain Road, Australia. The endangered Southern Cassowary feeds on the fruit of the Blue Quandang tree. Cassowaries are a keystone species in northern Australian rainforests because of their ability to carry so many big seeds such long distances. |
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| 1st Prize Nature Stories - Paul Nicklen/Canada/National Geographic Magazine - Emperor Penguins, Ross Sea - Nov. 18, 2012, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Even though they have evolved an incredibly advanced bubble physiology the greatest challenge they face is the loss of sea ice that supports their colonies and ecosystem. New science shows that Emperor Penguins are capable of tripling their swimming speed by releasing millions of bubbles from their feathers. These bubbles reduce the friction between their feathers and the icy seawater, allowing them to accelerate in the water. They use speeds of up to 30 kilometers per hour to avoid leopard seals and to launch themselves up onto the ice. |
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MIMIN, Ali Lutfi, Nature 2nd prize singles 2013.
One of the monkeys trained to entertain motorists along busy intersections in the Central Java City. |
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THE CAGE, Xiaoqun Zheng, Nature, 2nd prize stories 2013.
Animals caged in zoos. |
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SUDAN BORDER WARS, Dominic Nahr , General News 3rd prize singles 2013.
A Sudan Armed Forces soldier lies dead in a pool of oil next to a leaking oil facility. |
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