World Press Photo 2014

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.