Media News - Monday, February 13, 2012
Arab Spring shot wins World Press Photo award
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award Friday for an image of a veiled woman
holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.
Jurors said Aranda's photo, taken for The New York Times, encapsulated
many facets of the uprisings across the Middle East known as the Arab
Spring, one of the major news events of the year.
The tsunami in Japan was another major theme of the competition.
Japanese photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba took first prize in the People in
the News Stories category for Agence France Presse for images including
an April 3 photo of a Japanese woman standing alone and holding her
daughter's graduation certificate aloft after she found it amid a swirl
of debris in Higashimatsushima. The Associated Press won three awards, including first place in the Arts
and Entertainment Singles category, for David Goldman's shot of a
soldier playing the drums at a Canadian army base in Afghanistan.
In all, 57 photographers from 24 countries won awards in a field of more
than 5,000 professional photographers, who submitted more than 100,000
entries. The jury also itself nominated a photo taken by an unidentified amateur
for special mention: a still image taken from a video of a Libyan
National Transition Council fighter pulling Moammar Gadhafi onto a
military vehicle in Sirte, Libya, on Oct. 20. (AP)
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