World Press Photo 2014

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John Stanmeyer, USA, VII for National Geographic

Zwycięska fotografia Stanmeyera została zrobiona w lutym 2013 roku na plaży w Dżibuti, które jest punktem tranzytowym dla emigrantów z Somalii, Etiopii czy Erytrei.Emigranci, sfotografowani przez Stanmeyera, są oświetleni jedynie przez księżyc i ekrany trzymanych przez nich telefonów komórkowych. Sygnał telefonii komórkowej w graniczącej z Dżibutu Somalią jest tańszy i emigranci mają nadzieję na wysłanie lub otrzymanie wiadomości od krewnych za granicą - wyjaśnia agencja Associated Press.Urodzony w Illinois w USA Stanmeyer relacjonował m.in. zniszczenia po tsunami w Azji czy wojnę domową w Sudanie. Na stronie internetowej fotografa podano, że w kręgu jego zainteresowań leżą społeczne niesprawiedliwości, ubóstwo czy prawa człowieka. Fotografia Stanmeyera, który pracuje dla agencji fotograficznej VII, została zrobiona dla magazynu National Geographic.Fotografia Stanmeyera dotyka wielu tematów: otwiera drogę do dyskusji na temat technologii, globalizacji, migracji, biedy, wyobcowania, ludzkości - tłumaczyła członkini jury Jillian Edelstein.

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Alessandro Penso, Italy, OnOff Picture

1st Prize General News Single21 November 2013, Sofia, BulgariaMilitary Ramp, an emergency refugee center, was opened in September 2013 in an abandoned school in Sofia, Bulgaria. The center provides housing for about 800 Syrian refugees, including 390 children. Bulgaria, already hard hit by the economic crisis and heightened political instability, is confronting a refugee crisis that appears to coincide with increased efforts by Greece to close off its border with Turkey. Bulgaria, however, is totally unprepared to face a refugee crisis.

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William Daniels, France, Panos Pictures for Time

2nd Prize General News Stories 17 November 2013, Central African Republic Demonstrators gather on a street in Bangui to call for the resignation of interim President Michel Djotodia following the murder of Judge Modeste Martineau Bria by members of Seleka. Bangui, Central African Republic. The Central African Republic has seen more than its fair share of coups and un-rest over the five and a half decades since its independence from France. The cur-rent crisis, however, triggered by yet another coup, is starting to set in position a well armed, mainly Muslim militia that is refusing to disarm against Anti-balaka, Christian vigilante groups defending the countrys majority Christian population. The UN has warned of a potential slide into genocide and France has sent 1,600 troops to protect civilians and disarm the different militia. Bordering on other highly volatile regions in central Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Chad, the conflict is ringing alarm bells across the continent and beyond.

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Phillipe Lopez, France, Agence France-Presse

1st Prize Spot News Single 18 November 2013, Tolosa, the Philippines Survivors of typhoon Haiyan march during a religious procession in Tolosa, on the eastern island of Leyte. One of the strongest cyclones ever recorded, Haiyan left 8,000 people dead and missing and more than four million homeless after it hit the central Philippines.

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Goran Tomasevic, Serbia, Reuters

1st Prize Spot News Stories 30 January 2013, Damascus, Syria Syrian rebel fighters take cover amid flying debris and shrapnel after being hit by a tank shell fired towards them by the Syrian Army in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus. On 30 January 2013, a Syrian rebel group planning an attack on government forces is hit by sniper fire in Damascus, Syria. After evacuating their comrade, who was shot in the chest and would later die from injuries, the rebels return to attack the checkpoint with rocket fire. Subsequently, government forces fired tank shells at the rebels. The rebels eventually retreated for the day to mourn the death of their comrade.

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Tyler Hicks, USA, The New York Times

2nd Prize Spot News Stories 21 September 2013, Nairobi, Kenya A woman and children hiding in the Westgate mall. They escaped unharmed after gunmen had opened fire at the upscale Nairobi mall on 21 September 2013. At least 39 people were killed in one of the worst terrorist attacks in Kenya’s history.

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Christopher Vanegas, Mexico, La Vanguardia / El Gu

3rd Prize Contemporary Issues Single 08 March 2013, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico Police arrive at a crime scene where two bodies hang from a bridge; another three are on the floor. They had been killed by organized crime in Saltillo, Coahuila, in retaliation against other criminal groups. Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

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Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, USA, for Time

1st Prize Contemporary Issues Stories 17 November 2012, USA As the fight continued to rage, Shane told Maggie that she could choose between getting beaten in the kitchen, or going with him to the basement so they could talk privately. Lancaster, US.

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Julius Schrank, Germany, De Volkskrant

1st Prize Daily Life Single 15 March 2013, Burma Kachin Independence Army fighters are drinking and celebrating at a funeral of one of their commanders who died the day before. The city is under siege by the Burmese army.

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Andrzej Grygiel, Polska, PAP

W gronie wyróżnionych znalazł się fotoreporter Polskiej Agencji Prasowej Andrzej Grygiel, który otrzymał drugą nagrodę w kategorii pojedyncze zdjęcie sportowe za fotografię przedstawiającą uczestnika zawodów narciarskich w Szczyrku. Zdjęcie, wykonane przez Grygiela, to pierwsza nagroda World Press Photo dla fotoreportera PAP. Przedstawia balansującego na jednej narcie zawodnika w czasie slalomu podczas mistrzostw Polski w narciarstwie alpejskim w Szczyrku; zostało zrobione pod koniec marca 2013 roku. 48-letni Grygiel, który pracuje w PAP od 2005 roku, przyznał, że jest to jego pierwsza nagroda w międzynarodowym konkursie. Jestem bardzo zaskoczony, tradycyjnie nie spodziewałem się - powiedział PAP.

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Quinn Rooney, Australia, Getty Images

3rd Prize Sports Action Stories 27 April 2013, Adelaide, Australia Daniel Arnamnart of Australia competes in the mens 100-meter backstroke dur-ing day two of the Australian Swimming Championships on 27 April 2013 at SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre in Adelaide, Australia.

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Peter Holgersson, Sweden

1st Prize Sports Feature Stories 19 December 2013, Lidingö, Sweden Nadja feeling better just before her last treatment. Lidingö, Sweden. Swedish athlete Nadja Casadei has participated in the World and European Championships in heptathlon. In autumn 2013, she was diagnosed with cancer and by January 2014 she completed her chemotherapy. She has continued to train throughout her illness, hoping to be healthy and ready by the summer for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Markus Schreiber, Germany, The Associated Press

1st Prize People – Observed Portraits Single 13 December 2013, Pretoria, South Africa A woman reacts in disappointment after access to see former South Africa Presi-dent Nelson Mandela was closed on the third and final day of his casket lying in state, outside Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa.

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Carla Kogelman, the Netherlands

1st Prize People – Observed Portraits Stories 19 July 2012, Merkenbrechts, Austria Hannah and Alena, two sisters living in the rural village of Merkenbrechts, Austria.

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Brent Stirton, South Africa, Reportage by Getty Im

1st Prize People – Staged Portraits Single 25 September 2013, West Bengal India A group of blind albino boys photographed in their boarding room at the Vivekananda mission school for the blind in West Bengal, India. This is one of the very few schools for the blind in India today.

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Denis Dailleux, France, Agence Vu

2nd Prize People – Staged Portraits Stories 03 February 2011, Cairo, Egypt Ali, a young Egyptian bodybuilder, poses with his mother.

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Christian Ziegler, Germany, for National Geographi

3rd Prize Nature Stories 25 January 2011, Congo A five-year-old bonobo turns out to be the most curious individual of a wild group of bonobos near the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite being humans’ closest living relatives, little is known about Bonobos and their behavior in the wild in remote parts of the Congo basin. Bonobos are threat-ened by habitat loss and bush meat trade.

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Steve Winter, USA, for National Geographic

1st Prize Nature Stories 02 March 2013, Los Angeles, USA A cougar walking a trail in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is captured by a camera trap. To reach the park, which has been the cougar’s home for the last two years it had to cross two of the busiest highways in the US. Cougars are among the most adaptable and widespread terrestrial mammals in the Western Hemisphere, with a range that extends from the tip of Chile to the Ca-nadian Yukon. They are increasingly being seen in and around towns and cities, including Los Angeles and in the Hollywood Hills. Fear of these secretive cats, combined with a lack of adequate public knowledge, tends to justify the thousands of cougars killed every year. Scientists in Wyoming’s Teton National Forest are out-fitting them with GPS collars and camera trapping to learn more about basic be-haviors and to lift the veil of mystery surrounding them.