• The World Press Photo of the Year award is part of the World Press Photo Awards, organized by the Dutch foundation World Press Photo. Considered one of...
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  • six languages. In addition to selecting the World Press Photo of the Year, the contest determines winners in the following other categories: Spot News,...
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    Otoya Yamaguchi (category People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph)
    Death of a Political Youth. A photograph of the Asanuma assassination taken by Japanese photojournalist Yasushi Nagao won World Press Photo of the Year for...
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  • Fire Escape Collapse (category Photographs of the United States)
    received the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976 and the title of World Press Photo of the Year. The photograph, which is part of a series...
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  • Prize for Breaking News Photography Timeline of first images of Earth from space World Press Photo of the Year Talbot's 1835 photograph has also been referred...
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    who in 1976 became the first woman to win the World Press Photo of the Year award. The winning image was a black and white photo of a Palestinian woman...
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  • Omayra Sánchez (category People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph)
    died was published in news outlets around the world. It was later designated the World Press Photo of the Year for 1986. Sánchez has been remembered in...
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    Nick Ut (redirect from The Terror of War)
    for the Associated Press in Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for...
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    Nagao changed the focus to fifteen feet from ten feet. Nagao won the 1960 World Press Photo of the Year award and the 1961 Pulitzer Prize. The first award...
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    Pulitzer Prize and was chosen as the World Press Photo of the Year for 1973. After snapping the photograph, Ut took Phúc and the other injured children to Barsky...
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    photographer. He has been awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal five times and two World Press Photo awards. In 2003, Nachtwey was injured...
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    Finbarr O'Reilly (category University of British Columbia alumni)
    to The New York Times. O'Reilly won the 2019 World Press Photo First Place prize in the Portraits category, and also won the World Press Photo of the Year...
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    Berlin and elsewhere, was sold to The Associated Press in 1941. "WIDE WORLD, INC., SOLD TO THE A.P.; News Photo Service in Western Hemisphere Will Be...
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    so much emotion around the world as that one". Malcolm Browne won the World Press Photo of the Year for his photograph of the monk's death. Quảng Đức's...
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    wounded as a result of the maternity hospital bombing, which won World Press Photo of the Year. In 2023, he won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for public service...
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    Tim Hetherington (category War correspondents of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021))
    including the 2008 World Press Photo of the Year. He was killed by shrapnel from either a mortar shell or an RPG fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011...
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  • Mohammed Salem (photographer) (category Journalists from the Gaza Strip)
    category, World Press Photo Contest 2024: World Press Photo of the Year, World Press Photo Contest "Mohammed Salem | World Press Photo". www.worldpressphoto...
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  • documentary photographer and winner of 2015 and 2021 World Press Photo of the Year and 2023 World Press Photo Story of the Year. Nissen was born on November...
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  • Samuel Aranda (born 1979) is a Spanish photojournalist. He won World Press Photo of the Year 2012. Aranda was born in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain. Aranda...
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  • Yasuyoshi Chiba (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    World Press Photo of the Year. Chiba has worked for Agence France-Presse since 2011 and is currently its Chief Photographer for East Africa and the Indian...
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  • Dorothy Counts (category School segregation in the United States)
    Martin won the 1957 World Press Photo of the Year with an image of Counts being mocked by a crowd on her first day of school. After entering the building...
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    Chile, the 1980 Magazine Photographer of the Year from the National Press Photographers Association, and the 1980 World Press Photo of the Year. He was...
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  • Amber Bracken (category Southern Alberta Institute of Technology alumni)
    America. She won a World Press Photo first prize in 2017 for Contemporary Issues and in 2022 won the overall World Press Photo of the Year. She was arrested...
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    for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. In 2013 he won World Press Photo of the Year for a photograph of the funeral procession carrying the bodies of two Palestinian...
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    Stanley Forman (category Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology alumni)
    Photographer of the year. In 1975, Forman was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year by World Press Photo for the Fire Escape Collapse, a photograph depicting...
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  • including Newsweek, Time and The New York Times. He won the 1989 World Press Photo of the Year for a photo of the Tank Man during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests...
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  • in Algeria, dubbed the "Madonna of Bentalha", won both the World Press Photo of the Year and the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents...
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  • photojournalist. He won the 2005 World Press Photo of the Year. Datta started his career with Indian Express in 1991, later working for The Telegraph, AFP and...
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  • photographer. He won the 2018 World Press Photo of the Year award with a photo showing a protester, José Víctor Salazar Balza, catching fire during the crisis in...
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  • 2011. The photo was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year 2011 in February, 2012. III was released digitally on November 7, 2012, in the United States...
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