Prize World Press Photo of the Year

Year 1955 Photographer Mogens von Haven Nationality Denmark Organization / Publication Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 28-08-1955 Country Denmark Place Randers Caption A competitor tumbles off his motorcycle during the Motorcross World Championship at the Volk Mølle race course.

Year 1956 Photographer Helmuth Pirath Nationality West Germany Organization / PublicationKeystone Press Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date1956 Country West Germany Place CaptionA German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one-year-old.

Year 1957 Photographer Douglas Martin Nationality USA Organization / Publication The Associated Press Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 04-09-1957 Country USA Place Charlotte, North Carolina CaptionDorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School is mocked by whites on her first day of school. People threw rocks and screamed at her "Go back where you came from". Walking beside her is Dr. Edwin Tompkins, a friend of the family and a professor at the black college Johnson C. Smith University. After a string of abuses, Dorothy's family withdrew her from the school after only four days. Across the United States this week children had been enrolling for the new school year. In the south tension was particularly high for districts trying to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling that states should integrate their schools "with deliberate speed".

Year 1958 Photographer Stanislav Tereba Nationality Czech Republic Organization / Publication Vecernik Praha Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-09-1958 Country Czechoslovakia Place Prague CaptionNational Football Championships between Prague and Bratislava.

Year 1960 Photographer Yasushi Nagao Nationality Japan Organization / Publication Mainichi Shimbun Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 12-10-1960 Country Japan Place Tokyo CaptionA right-wing student assassinates Inejiro Asanuma, Socialist Party Chairman, during his speech at the Hibiya Hall.

Year 1962 Photographer Héctor Rondón Lovera Nationality Venezuela Organization / Publication La República Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 04-06-1962 Country Venezuela Place Puerto Cabello CaptionPriest Luis Padillo offers last rites to a loyalist soldier who is mortally wounded by a sniper during military rebellion against President Bétancourt at Puerto Cabello naval base.

Year 1963 Photographer Malcolm W. Browne Nationality USA Organization / Publication The Associated Press Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 10-06-1963 Country Vietnam Place Saigon CaptionBuddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.

Year 1964 Photographer Don McCullin Nationality United Kingdom Organization / Publication The Observer / Quick / Life Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-04-1964 Country Cyprus Place Ghaziveram CaptionA Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, a victim of the Greek-Turkish civil war.

Year 1965 Photographer Kyoichi Sawada Nationality Japan Organization / Publication United Press International Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-09-1965 Country Vietnam Place Loc Thuong, Binh Dinh CaptionA mother and her children wade across a river to escape US bombing. The US Air Force had evacuated their village because it was suspected of being used as a base camp by the Vietcong.

Year 1966 Photographer Kyoichi Sawada Nationality Japan Organization / Publication United Press International Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 24-02-1966 Country Vietnam Place Tan Binh CaptionThe body of a Vietcong soldier is dragged behind an American armored vehicle en route to a burial site after fierce fighting.

Year 1967 Photographer Co Rentmeester Nationality Netherlands, The Organization / Publication Life Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-05-1967 Country Vietnam Place CaptionThe commander of an M48 tankgunner of the US 7th regiment in Vietnam's 'Iron Triangle'.

Year 1968 Photographer Eddie Adams Nationality USA Organization / Publication The Associated Press Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 01-02-1968 Country Vietnam Place Saigon CaptionSouth Vietnam national police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a suspected Viet Cong member.

Year 1969 Photographer Hanns-Jörg Anders Nationality Germany Organization / Publication Stern Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-05-1969 Country United Kingdom Place Derry, Northern Ireland CaptionA young Catholic wears a gasmask during clashes with British troops. People had been fleeing from teargas after a night of street fighting.

Year 1971 Photographer Wolfgang Peter Geller Nationality Germany Organization / Publication Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 29-12-1971 Country West Germany Place Baltersweiler CaptionDuring negotiations on the safe-conduct of a group of criminals on the run, police superintendent Gross suddenly shoots down gang leader Kurt Vicenik. The gang, who had disappeared after a bank-robbery in Cologne, re-emerged near Saarbrücken, carrying a hostage with them. A chase followed and the police and the robbers met at Baltersweiler. The two other men were captured in a wild fight. The men running away from the bullets are policemen.

Year 1972 Photographer Nick Ut Nationality USA Organization / Publication The Associated Press Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 08-06-1972 Country Vietnam Place Trang Bang CaptionPhan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees with other children after South Vietnamese planes mistakenly dropped napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians.

Year 1973 Photographer Orlando Lagos Nationality Chile Organization / Publication The New York Times Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 11-09-1973 Country Chile Place Santiago CaptionDemocratically elected President Salvador Allende moments away from death during military coup at Moneda presidential palace.

Year 1974 Photographer Ovie Carter Nationality USA Organization / Publication Chicago Tribune Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-07-1974 Country Niger Place Kao CaptionThe Faces of Hunger. A mother comforts her child, both victims of drought.

Year 1975 Photographer Stanley Forman Nationality USA Organization / Publication Boston Herald Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 22-07-1975 Country USA Place Boston CaptionA mother and her daughter are hurled off a collapsing fire-escape in an apartment house fire. Together with a fire-fighter, they waited for the rescue ladder to reach them. As the fire-fighter climbed onto the ladder, the fire-escape collapsed under their feet and they fell to the ground five floors below. The woman was killed but the child survived, her fall cushioned by the woman's body.

Year 1976 Photographer Françoise Demulder Nationality France Organization / Publication Gamma Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-01-1976 Country Lebanon Place Beirut CaptionPalestinian refugees in district La Quarantaine.

Year 1977 Photographer Leslie Hammond Nationality South Africa Organization / Publication The Argus Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-08-1977 Country South Africa Place CaptionPolice throw tear-gas at a group of chanting residents of the Modderdam squatter camp protesting against the demolition of their homes outside Cape Town.

Year 1978 Photographer Sadayuki Mikami Nationality Japan Organization / Publication The Associated Press Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-03-1978 Country Japan Place Narita CaptionA demonstrator is engulfed in flames of the molotov cocktail he was about to throw at the police during protests against the construction of the New Tokyo International Airport. The original Narita Airport plan was unveiled in 1966. To acquire the initial land, the government had to evict protesting landowners. Violent clashes between the opponents and authorities resulted in 13 deaths, including five police officers. The new airport opened in May 1978.

Year 1979 Photographer David Burnett Nationality USA Organization / Publication Contact Press Images Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-11-1979 Country Thailand Place Sa Keo province CaptionA Cambodian woman cradles her child while waiting for food to be distributed at a refugee camp.

Year 1980 Photograph Mike Wells Nationality United Kingdom Organization / Publication Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-04-1980 Country Uganda Place Karamoja district CaptionA starving boy and a missionary.

Year 1981 Photographer Manuel Pérez Barriopedro Nationality Spain Organization / Publication Agencia EFE Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 23-02-1981 Country Spain Place Madrid CaptionLt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina orders everyone to remain seated and be quiet after armed Guardia Civil soldiers stormed the Assembly Hall of the Spanish Parliament. Three hundred deputies and cabinet members were in session to vote upon the succession of premier Suarez. They were released next morning after having been held hostage for almost 18 hours; the coup was a failure.

Year 1982 Photographer Robin Moyer Nationality USA Organization / Publication Black Star for Time Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 18-09-1982 Country Lebanon Place Beirut CaptionThe war in Lebanon: The aftermath of the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

Year 1983 Photographer Mustafa Bozdemir Nationality Turkey Organization / Publication Hürriyet Gazetesi Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 30-10-1983 Country Turkey Place Koyunoren CaptionKezban Özer (37) finds her five children buried alive after a devastating earthquake. At five o'clock in the morning she and her husband were milking the cows as their children slept. A few minutes later, 147 villages in the region were destroyed by an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter scale; 1,336 people died.

Year 1984 Photographer Pablo Bartholomew Nationality ndia Organization / Publication Gamma Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-12-1984 Country India Place Bhopal CaptionA child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.

Year 1985 Photographer Frank Fournier Nationality France Organization / Publication Contact Press Images Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 16-11-1985 Country Colombia Place Armero CaptionOmaira Sanchez (12) is trapped in the debris caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruíz volcano. After sixty hours she eventually lost consciousness and died of a heart attack.

Year 1986 Photographer Alon Reininger Nationality USA Organization / Publication Contact Press Images Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-09-1986 Country USA Place San Francisco CaptionKen Meeks' (42) skin is marked with lesions caused by Aids-related Kaposi's Sarcoma.

Year 1987 Photographer Anthony Suau Nationality USA Organization / Publication Black Star Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 18-12-1987 Country South Korea Place Kuro CaptionA mother clings to a riot policeman's shield at a polling station. Her son was one of thousands of demonstrators arrested because they tried to prove that the presidential election on December 15, which was won by the government candidate, had been rigged.

Year 1988 Photographer David Turnley Nationality USA Organization / Publication Detroit Free Press / Black Star Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-12-1988 Country Soviet Union Place Leninakan CaptionBoris Abgarzian grieves for his 17-year-old son, victim of the Armenian earthquake.

Year 1989 Photographer Charlie Cole Nationality USA Organization / Publication Newsweek Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 04-06-1989 Country China Place Tiananmen Square, Beijing CaptionA demonstrator confronts a line of People's Liberation Army tanks during protests for democratic reform.

Year 1990 Photographer Georges Merillon Nationality France Organization / Publication Gamma Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 28-01-1990 Country Yugoslavia Place Nogovac, Kosovo CaptionFamily and neighbors mourn the death of Elshani Nashim (27), killed during a protest against the Yugoslavian government's decision to abolish the autonomy of Kosovo.

Year 1991 Photographer David Turnley Nationality USA Organization / Publication Detroit Free Press / Black Star Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-02-1991 Country Iraq Place CaptionUS Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz (23), gives vent to his grief as he learns that the body bag at his feet contains the remains of his friend Andy Alaniz. 'Friendly fire' claimed Alaniz's life and injured Kozakiewicz. On the last day of the Gulf War they were taken away from the war zone by a MASH unit evacuation helicopter.

Year 1992 Photographer James Nachtwey Nationality USA Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Libération Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-11-1992 Country Somalia Place Bardera CaptionA mother carries her dead child to the grave, after wrapping it in a shroud according to local custom. A bad drought coupled with the effects of civil war caused a terrible famine in Somalia which claimed the lives of between one and two million people over a period of two years, more than 200 a day in the worst affected areas. The international airlift of relief supplies which started in July was hampered by heavily armed gangs of clansmen who looted food storage centers and slowed down the distribution of the supplies by aid organizations.

Year 1993 Photographer Larry Towell Nationality Canada Organization / Publication Magnum Photos Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-03-1993 Country Place Gaza City, Gaza Strip CaptionBoys raise toy guns in a gesture of defiance. The Palestinian uprising, which began in December 1987, strengthened the Arab population in their determination to fight the occupying force. In March Israel closed its border with Gaza, causing a massive rise in unemployment. With more than 800,000 people contained in the Israeli-patrolled, eight-km-wide strip of land, bloodshed increased sharply. The peace agreement signed in Washington on September 13 promised limited authority for the Gaza Strip and a withdrawal of the Israeli army.

Year 1994 Photographer James Nachtwey Nationality USA Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Time Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-06-1994 Country Rwanda Place CaptionA Hutu man at a Red Cross hospital, his face mutilated by the Hutu 'Interahamwe' militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. The animosity between the Hutu and Tutsi population groups in Rwanda had been simmering for decades. In April, the death of Hutu president Habyarimana in a plane crash near the capital of Kigali sparked murderous attacks on the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates. The situation deteriorated further when the mainly Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) started pushing south from their stronghold in northern Rwanda. A mass exodus of people trying to escape excessive violence was underway by July.

Year 1995 Photographer Lucian Perkins Nationality USA Organization / Publication The Washington Post Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-05-1995 Country Russia Place Chechnya CaptionA bus on the road leading to Grozny during fighting between Chechen independence fighters and Russian troops. The civil war which erupted when President Yeltsin sent troops to the rebellious province in December 1994 was still dragging on months later. When the Chechen fighters fled Grozny, the capital, where the war had claimed a horrendous human and material toll, Russian troops pursued them into the countryside to the south and east.

Year 1996 Photographer Francesco Zizola Nationality Italy Organization / Publication Contrasto Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 00-04-1996 Country Angola Place Kuito CaptionLandmine victims in Kuito, a town where many people were killed and traumatized during the civil war. To date some 70,000 Angolans, 8,000 of them children, have been disabled by exploding mines. For decades colonizers, armies and freedom fighters laid mines randomly on roads and bridges in order to disrupt communications. As a result, there are today probably as many unexploded land mines in Angola as there are inhabitants.

Year 1997 Photographer Hocine Nationality Algeria Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 23-09-1997 Country Algeria Place Algiers CaptionA woman cries outside the Zmirli Hospital, where the dead and wounded were taken after a massacre in Bentalha. Mass killings and bomb blasts dominated life since the army annulled the results of the 1992 elections, in which it appeared the Muslim fundamentalist party, FIS, would win. The conflict had claimed more than 60,000 lives in five years.

Year 1998 Photographer Dayna Smith Nationality USA Organization / Publication The Washington Post Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 06-11-1998 Country Yugoslavia Place zbica, Kosovo CaptionA woman is comforted by relatives and friends at the funeral of her husband. The man was a soldier with the ethnic Albanian rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army, fighting for independence from Serbia. He had been shot the previous day while on patrol.

Year 1999 Photographer Claus Bjørn Larsen Nationality Denmark Organization / Publication Berlingske Tidende Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 05-04-1999 Country Albania Place Kukës CaptionA man walks the streets in one of the largest gathering points for ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing violence in Kosovo.

Year 2000 Photographer Lara Jo Regan Nationality USA Organization / Publicationfor Life Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 03-12-2000 Country USA Place Las Colonias, Texas CaptionThe mother of a Mexican immigrant family makes piñatas to support herself and her children. The family numbers among the millions of 'uncounted' Americans, people who for one reason or another have been missed by the national census and so don't exist in population records. Census records determine where new schools, hospitals, firehouses and basic social services are needed. Areas like Las Colonias, where this family lives, thus lack many amenities and have high illiteracy rates.

Year 2001 Photographer Erik Refner Nationality Denmark Organization / Publication Berlingske Tidende Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 07-06-2001 Country Pakistan Place CaptionThe body of a one-year-old boy who died of dehydration is prepared for burial at Jalozai refugee camp. The child's family, originally from North Afghanistan, had sought refuge in Pakistan from political instability and the consequences of drought. The family gave the photographer permission to attend as they washed and wrapped his body in a white funeral shroud, according to Muslim tradition. In the overcrowded Jalozai camp, 80,000 refugees from Afghanistan endured squalid conditions. Decades of political instability and drought drove millions of people over the border into Pakistan. By June, Jalozai could not cope with the numbers, and food and shelter were scarce. Although relief workers tried to provide basic health services, children died from disease or dehydration. Eight months later, the United Nations closed the camp, moving refugees to other areas.

Year 2002 Photographer Eric Grigorian Nationality Armenia Organization / Publication Polaris Images Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 23-06-2002 Country Iran Place Qazvin CaptionA boy holds his dead father's trousers as he squats beside the spot where his father is to be buried, surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of an earthquake. The earthquake, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, struck on June 23. Dozens of villages were destroyed and hundreds of people killed across the province.

Year 2003 Photographer Jean-Marc Bouju Nationality France Organization / Publication The Associated Press Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 31-03-2003 Country Iraq Place CaptionAn Iraqi man comforts his four-year-old son at a holding center for prisoners of war, in the base camp of the US Army 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf. The boy had become terrified when, according to orders, his father was hooded and handcuffed. A soldier later severed the plastic handcuffs so that the man could comfort his child. Hoods were placed over detainees' heads because they were quicker to apply than blindfolds. The military said the bags were used to disorient prisoners and protect their identities. It is not known what happened to the man or the boy.

Year 2004 Photographer Arko Datta Nationality India Organization / Publication Reuters Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 28-12-2004 Country India Place Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu CaptionA woman mourns a relative killed in the tsunami. On December 26, a 9.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of deadly waves that traveled across the Indian Ocean, wreaking havoc in nine Asian countries, and causing fatalities as far away as Somalia and Tanzania. The quake was so strong that it altered the tilt of the planet by 2.5cm. More than 200,000 people died or were reported missing, and millions were left destitute in the worst natural disaster in living memory. In India, the fishing communities in Tamil Nadu were among the worst hit, with homes, lives and livelihoods being wiped away.

Year 2005 Photographer Finbarr O'Reilly Nationality Canada Organization / Publication Reuters Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 01-08-2005 Country Niger Place Tahoua CaptionThe fingers of malnourished Alassa Galisou (1) are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding center. One of the worst droughts in recent times, together with a particularly heavy plague of locusts that had destroyed the previous year's harvest, left millions of people severely short of food. Heavy rains promised well for the 2005 crops, but hindered aid workers bringing supplies. Relief had been slow to come. Accusations were leveled variously blaming the United Nations, Western governments, the international aid community and officials in Niger itself for failing to respond early enough to an imminent crisis.

Year 2006 Photographer Spencer Platt Nationality USA Organization / Publication Getty Images Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 15-08-2006 Country Lebanon Place Beirut CaptionYoung Lebanese drive down a street in Haret Hreik, a bombed neighborhood in southern Beirut. For nearly five weeks Israel had been targeting that part of the city and towns across southern Lebanon in a campaign against Hezbollah militants. As a ceasefire gradually came into force from August 14, thousands of Lebanese began to return to their homes. According to the Lebanese government, 15,000 homes and 900 commercial concerns were damaged.

Year 2007 Photographer Tim Hetherington Nationality United Kingdom Organization / Publication Vanity Fair Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 16-09-2007 Country Afghanistan Place Korengal Valley CaptionA soldier of Second Platoon, Battle Company of the Second Battalion of the US 503rd Infantry Regiment sinks onto an embankment in the Restrepo bunker at the end of the day. The Korengal Valley was the epicenter of the US fight against militant Islam in Afghanistan and the scene of some of the deadliest combat in the region.

Year 2008 Photographer Anthony Suau Nationality USA Organization / Publication for Time Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 26-03-2008 Country USA Place Cleveland, Ohio CaptionDetective Robert Kole of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office enters a home, following mortgage foreclosure and eviction. He needs to check that the owners have vacated the premises, and that no weapons have been left lying around. Officers go in at gunpoint as a precaution, as many houses have been vandalized or occupied by squatters or drug addicts. Towards the end of 2007, the severity of losses to US banks incurred over sub-prime mortgages was beginning to emerge. In the first months of 2008, rising interest rates together with increasing unemployment and a slowdown in the housing market, meant that many borrowers could no longer afford payments on their homes. Banks involved heavily in such debts were threatened with collapse. In the following months the financial crisis spread worldwide.

Year 2009 Photographer Pietro Masturzo Nationality Italy Organization / Publication Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 24-06-2009 Country Iran Place Tehran CaptionWomen shout their dissent from a Tehran rooftop on 24 June, following Iran's disputed presidential election. The result had been a victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, but there were allegations of vote-rigging. In the ensuing weeks, violent demonstrations took place in the streets. At night, people shouted from the roofs, an echo of protests that took place during the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Year 2010Photographer Jodi BieberNationality South AfricaOrganization / Publication Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 15-07- 2010 Country AfghanistanPlace KabulCaptionBibi Aisha, 18, was disfigured as retribution for fleeing her husband’s house in Oruzgan province, in the center of Afghanistan. At the age of 12, Aisha and her younger sister had been given to the family of a Taliban fighter under a Pashtun tribal custom for settling disputes. When she reached puberty she was married to him, but she later returned to her parents’ home, complaining of violent treatment by her in-laws. Men arrived there one night demanding that she be handed over to be punished for running away. Aisha was taken to a mountain clearing, where, at the orders of a Taliban commander, she was held down and had first her ears sliced off, then her nose. In local culture, a man who has been shamed by his wife is said to have lost his nose, and this is seen as punishment in return. Aisha was abandoned, but later rescued and taken to a shelter in Kabul run by the aid organization Women for Afghan Women, where she was given treatment and psychological help. After time in the refuge, she was taken to America to receive further counseling and reconstructive surgery.

Year 2011Photographer Samuel ArandaNationality SpainOrganization / Publication Category World Press Photo of the Year Prize World Press Photo of the Year Date 15-10-2011Country YemenPlace SanaaCaptionFatima al-Qaws cradles her son Zayed (18), who is suffering from the effects of tear gas after participating in a street demonstration, in Sanaa, Yemen, on 15 October. Ongoing protests against the 33-year-long regime of authoritarian President Ali Abdullah Saleh escalated that day. Witnesses said that thousands marched down Zubairy Street, a main city thoroughfare, and were fired on when they reached a government checkpoint near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some demonstrators retreated, others carried on and were shot at again. At least 12 people were killed and some 30 injured. Ms Qaws—who was herself involved in resistance to the regime—found her son after a second visit to look for him, among the wounded at a mosque that was being used as a temporary field hospital. Zayed remained in a coma for two days after the incident. He was injured on two further occasions, as demonstrations continued. On 23 November, President Saleh flew to Saudi Arabia, and signed an agreement transferring power to his deputy, Abdurabu Mansur Hadi. Saleh’s rule ended formally when Hadi was sworn in as president, following an election, on 25 February 2012.

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