Catapult kid: An anti-government protester uses very basic materials against the authorities in May 2010. Taken by Corentin Fohlen of France, for Fedephoto, it won 2nd Prize Stories Spot News in the 54th annual World Press Photo Contes in Amsterdam

The top prize World Press Photo Of The Year was won by Jodi Bieber, of South Africa, Institute for Artist Management for Time magazine, for the portrait of Bibi Aisha, the 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose was cut off

A man carrying his catch through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia. This picture, taken by Omar Feisal, Somalia, for Reuters, won 1st Prize Singles Daily Life

Atlantic Sailfish attack Spanish sardines, off Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, in a picture by photographer Reinhard Dirscherl, Germany, which won 2nd Prize Singles Nature

The Eritrean national cycling team passes a camel caravan on the road from Barentu to Keren, by Chris Keulen, of the Netherlands, Panos, pictures for Geo, who won 3rd Prize Stories Sports

Whooper Swans at dawn, in Hokkaido, Japan, in a picture taken by Stefano Unterthiner, Italy, for National Geographic magazine, winner of 2nd Prize Stories Nature

Hindu devotees walking towards the ash-shooting Mount Bromo volcano, in Cemoro Lawang, Java, to make offerings in a picture taken by AFP photographer Christophe Archambault

Four Somali refugees en route to Yemen sleep in the desert after traveling all night on muddy roads and in pouring rain, Somaliland, in a picture by Ed Ou, Canada, Reportage by Getty Images, who won 1st Prize Stories Contemporary Issues

Andrew Biraj, a Reuters photographer based in Bangladesh, has won the 3rd Prize Daily Life Single category with this picture of an overcrowded train approaching a station in Dhaka

Taxis waiting at a railway crossing in Calcutta were taken by Martin Roemers, a Panos Pictures photographer based in the Netherlands, winning him 1st Prize Daily Life Stories category

A sister of Feroz Ahmad, alias Showkat, who was killed by forces, wails as she clings to the bed carrying the body of her brother during his funeral in Pattan, north of Srinagar, India. Altaf Qadri was awarded the 1st prize in the the People in the News singles

Wolfram Hahn, Germany, won 2nd Prize Stories Portraits for the subject of self-portraits for social networks

Nguyen Thi Ly, 9, who suffers from Agent Orange disabilities in Da Nang, Vietnam, was captured by Ed Kashi, USA, VII Photo Agency, won 2nd Prize Singles Contemporary Issues

Olivier Laban-Mattei, France, Agence France-Presse, won 1st Prize Stories General News for this horrific picture of dead bodies at a morgue after the Haiti earthquake

Peter Lakatos, from Hungary, MTI, won 1st Prize Singles Spot News for this picture of a suicide jumper on fire in Budapest

Excellent!

Thanks.

Very nice photos . . . in a very twisted way.

The dead body being flung in the Haiti morgue picture is just and the suicide dude, hmm . . . and the over-crowded train station

JeSoul:

Very nice photos . . . in a very twisted way.

The dead body being flung in the Haiti morgue picture is just and the suicide dude, hmm . . . and the over-crowded train station

That was really shocking, whatever happened to treating the dead with respect!

JeSoul:

Very nice photos . . . in a very twisted way.

The dead body being flung in the Haiti morgue picture is just and the suicide dude, hmm . . . and the over-crowded train station

for real those where . Looks like the strangest stuff happens in those asian countries

these pictures are worth their prices, good job

WoooooooWWWW - Impressive!!!

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Jeez! Is there even space to breath on this train?

This pix makes an overcrowded molue bus look like luxury and very comfy

wow! ;d :d

Lol @ Burning Suicide Jumper. Is the use of fire part of acclimatization for the impending fire?

this photographers are trying a lot

Any Nigerian Photographer?

Just wondering why this picture didn't make it into the Nigerian Daily Life stories

cold:

Just wondering why this picture didn't make it into the Nigerian Daily Life stories

Hey guy you snap this picture ? if yes next time, watermark it, before someone claimed its ownership and won some $$$$ over it,

Not joking, these days pictures are valued too,

This shows how foolish the Government machinery used in recruiting officers is.

You can imagine this rubbish from people who ought to keep law and order. They don't even have respect for the uniform talk more of the country.
Lets leave these idiots and focus on the positive contributions these photographers are making to global information dissemination.

Twisted pictures for twisted minds