World Press Award Winning Photos

[Deebs]

World Press Winners

There are some jarringly beautiful and disturbing images among the winners.

The top prize winning image was not even close to the most moving picture to me. I hope that doesn't mean I have become desensitized to the suffering of soldiers.

My favorites are:

#5 (in slide show)
Balazs Gardi, a VII Network photographer based in Hungary, won the first prize of the General News Stories category with this picture of Operation Rock Avalanche, Afghanistan taken October 2007.

#6
Yonathan Weitzman, a photographer based in Israel, won the first prize of the People in the News Singles category with this picture of a dress of an African girl caught in the Israel/Egypt border fence taken August 20, 2007.

#16
Platon, a Time magazine photographer based in Britain, won the first prize of the Portraits Singles category with this picture of President Putin of Russia.

#17 & #19
Both of these are very Diane Arbus to me...
Vanessa Winship, an Agence Vu photographer based in Britain, won the first prize of the Portraits Stories category with this picture of rural school girls in Eastern Turkey.
and
Rafal Milach, an Anzenberger Agency photographer based in Poland, won the first prize of the Arts and Entertainment Stories category with this picture of a retired circus artist in Poland.