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Mogens von Haven, Denmark.
Volk Mølle racecourse, Randers, Denmark, 28 August 1955.
A competitor tumbles off his motorcycle during a motorcross championships.

About the image
Von Haven used to cover all the Danish motorcycle and car races of his day. He was ideally situated for the shot, because back then photographers could choose their own positions and move around freely. This is very different in the sporting world of today, where movement is severely restricted.

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Helmuth Pirath, Germany, Keystone Press.
West Germany, 1956
German World War II prisoner released by the Soviet Union is reunited with his daughter.

About the image
Capturing the homecoming of a German prisoner of war, returning from the Russian camps, to the fold of his family and fatherland, Pirath focused on the emotion-riddled face of a child, aged about twelve, who had not seen her father since she was a one-year-old.

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Douglas Martin, USA, The Associated Press.
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4 September 1957. Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School.

About the image
Reporters and photographers bore witness and recorded the violence that erupted when Dorothy Counts showed up for her first day at an all-white school. People threw rocks and screamed "Go back where you came from". They got their way - after a string of abuses, Dorothy's family withdrew her from the school after only four days.

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Stanislav Tereba, Czechoslovakia, Vecernik Praha.
Prague, Czechoslovakia, September 1958.
National soccer championship between Prague and Bratislava.

About the image
While his fellow reporters headed for cover, Tereba braved the rain to take his lauded shot. Winning the award established him at once as a professional photographer, at the tender age of 20.

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Yasushi Nagao, Japan, Mainichi Shimbun.
Hibiya Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 12 October 1960. Right-wing student assassinates Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma during speech.

About the image
Nagao says he believes that he was simply positioned in the right place at the right time. Traveling abroad was still a distant dream for most Japanese at the time, and winning helped Nagao to fulfill his life-long ambition of exploring the world, while establishing him at 31.

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Héctor Rondón Lovera, Venezuela, Diario La República.
Puerto Cabello naval base, Venezuela,
4 June 1962. A soldier who has been mortally wounded by a sniper clings onto navy chaplain Luis Padillo.

About the image
Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to the priest's cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. Rondón Lovera, who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure how he managed to take this picture.

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Malcolm W. Browne, USA, The Associated Press.
Saigon, South Vietnam, 11 June 1963. Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against alleged religious persecution by the South Vietnamese government.

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Overwhelmed with horror and the smell of burning flesh, Browne shot four rolls of the monk, who died silently. His photos prompted President Kennedy to withdraw support of the Ngo Dinh Diem government (overthrown four months later).

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Donald McCullin, UK, for The Observer, Quick, Life.
Ghaziveram, Cyprus, April 1964. A Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, victim of the Greek-Turkish civil war.

About the image
McCullin said that he hated carrying cameras, instead preferring to carry a conscience. He felt guilty that he took pictures with the eyes of a photographer, and not with the concern of a social worker. According to him, his moody, dramatic pictures reflected his pessimistic view that there's not much hope for a better society in the future.

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Kyoichi Sawada, Japan, United Press International.
Loc Thuong, Binh Dinh, South Vietnam, September 1965. Mother and children wade across river to escape US bombing.

About the image
Sawada braved going down to the riverside, which was under attack, to take the picture, and then wiped the youngest child's eyes when they reached his side. His widow tells that his evidence of the tragedies of war reached a wider audience after winning, but it also pressured him, and turned him taciturn.

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Kyoichi Sawada, Japan, United Press International.
Tan Binh, South Vietnam, 24 February 1966.
American troops drag the body of a Viet Cong soldier to be buried.

About the image
Sawada won the grand prize two years running. He experienced many atrocities first hand, but found it hard to talk about. His widow confides that he wasn't pleased to win that year, as the tragic photo upset him. Always a daredevil, he was killed in 1970, while on assignment in Cambodia.

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Co Rentmeester, the Netherlands, Life.
South Vietnam, May 1967.
The commander of an M48 tankgunner of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam's "Iron Triangle".

About the image
Rentmeester took his winning shot, which was salvaged from Life magazine's rejects pile, as he lay on the floor of an incredibly hot tank. Rentmeester is the only Dutch photographer to ever have received this award, which was founded in the Netherlands.

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Eddie Adams, USA, The Associated Press.
Saigon, South Vietnam, 1 February 1968. South Vietnam national police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a suspected Viet Cong member.

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Drawn by gunfire, Adams watched South Vietnamese soldiers bring a Viet Cong captive to a street corner, where he assumed he would be interrogated. Instead, Loan strode up, wordlessly drew a pistol and executed him. Years later, Adams found himself so defined and haunted by the picture that he wouldn't display it in his studio.

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Hanns-Jörg Anders, Germany, Stern.
Londonderry, Northern Ireland, May 1969.
A young Catholic during clash with British troops.

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After a night of street fighting, everyone was fleeing the teargas, when Anders saw a gas masked boy, who had stopped in front of a wall inscribed with "we want peace". He only had time to take two pictures before the teargas enveloped him.

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Wolfgang Peter Geller, Germany.
Saarbrücken, West Germany, 29 December 1971. Shoot-out between police and bank-robbers.

About the image
Winning the prize boosted his career as a commercial photographer, and he started getting so busy with this type of work that he dropped the news- and press photography. Geller gained a reputation in advertising as a people's photographer, and his photographs are always accompanied by editorial - his favorite work.

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(Nick) Ut Cong Huynh, Vietnam, The Associated Press.
Trangbang, South Vietnam, 8 June 1972.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees from the scene where South Vietnamese planes have mistakenly dropped napalm.

About the image
Nick Ut remembers how this (now famous) little girl pulled off her burning clothes, screaming, "Nong qua!" (Too hot!), and how he poured water from his canteen on her to cool her off, after which he put all the kids in his van and took them to Cu Chi Hospital.

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Anonymous, The New York Times.
Santiago, Chile, 11 September 1973.
Democratically elected President Salvador Allende moments away from death during military coup at Moneda presidential palace.

About the image
This picture is controversial. Marvine Howe, then a Latin American correspondent of The New York Times, obtained it from a source who said the photographer had to remain anonymous for reasons of personal security. It has been alleged that it was taken at a previous coup attempt, one which failed.

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Ovie Carter, USA, Chicago Tribune.
Kao, Niger, July 1974.
Drought victim.

About the image
Carter traveled 10,000 miles battling storms, washed-out roads, car trouble, border officials, mosquitoes and homesickness while shooting the series ‘The Faces of Hunger'.

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Stanley Forman, USA, The Boston Herald.
Boston, USA, 22 July 1975.
A woman and a girl are hurled down as the fire escape of their apartment building collapses.

About the image
Forman watched helplessly through his lens as everything gave way, with people, plants and metal tumbling through the air. His pictures were used in a safety campaign afterwards, and he still daydreams about taking more photographs that have that kind of impact.

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Françoise Demulder, France, Gamma.
Beirut, Lebanon, January 1976. Palestinian refugees in the district La Quarantaine.

About the image
She was the first woman to win the World Press Photo, and did so on the 20th anniversary of the award. Demulder stated at the time that she hated war, but felt compelled to document how it's always the innocent who suffer, while the powerful get richer and richer.

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Leslie Hammond, South Africa, The Argus.
Modderdam, Western Cape, South Africa, August 1977.
The police tear-gas inhabitants of Modderdam squatter camp outside Cape Town protesting against the demolition of their homes.

About the image
When the police suddenly charged and tear-gassed the crowd, Hammond had only moments to take a few pictures.

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Sadayuki Mikami, Japan, The Associated Press.
Tokyo, Japan, 26 March 1978.
Protest against the construction of Narita Airport.

About the image
The winning image was taken at an anti-airport demonstration at the New Tokyo International Airport.

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David Burnett, USA, Contact Press Images.
Sa Keo refugee camp, Thailand, November 1979.
A Cambodian woman cradles her child while waiting for food to be distributed.

About the image
Shot at the Sa Keo refugee camp near the Thai-Cambodian border, Burnett found this lone woman holding her defenseless baby to exude strength in the midst of her sorrowful surroundings.

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Mike Wells, United Kingdom.
Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980. Starving boy and a missionary.

About the image
Wells felt indignant that the same publication that sat on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were dying, entered it into a competition. He was embarrassed to win as he never entered the competition himself, and was against winning prizes with pictures of people starving to death.

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Manuel Pérez Barriopedro, Spain, Agencia EFE.
Madrid, Spain, 23 February 1981.
Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero Molina and members of the Guardia Civil and the military police hold the Spanish parliament hostage.

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After frantically photographing left-and-right for 40 seconds during the coup d'état, on what was supposed to be a regular workday at the Spanish Parliament, he hid the films in his shoe, fearing confiscation.

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Robin Moyer, USA, Black Star for Time.
Beirut, Lebanon, 18 September 1982. Aftermath of massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

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Moyer saw Israeli flares burst above the camps, and went there to discover piles of bodies - brutally shot. He photographed for hours surrounded by the smell of death, while Israeli soldiers joked around. The killers were never brought to justice.

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Mustafa Bozdemir, Turkey, Hürriyet Gazetesi.
Koyunoren, Eastern Turkey, 30 October 1983. Kezban Özer finds her five children buried alive after a devastating earthquake.

About the image
Bozdemir witnessed this woman embracing her dead children, while her screams pierced his heart, and said it seemed like she thought her love could will them back to life. His photojournalism career was short-lived, due to Turkey's economy and monopolized media, but he works as a union Press Advisor, and acts as jury member in Turkish Photo contests.

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Pablo Bartholomew, India, Gamma.
Bhopal, India, December 1984.
Child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.

About the image
Following the vehicles that were taking the dead to be cremated and buried, Bartholomew saw the body of a child, with eyes glazed, milky-white and staring up at him. He says winning put him on the map in the photojournalism world, while his image became an icon of grief and greed in the face of industrial disaster.

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Frank Fournier, France, Contact Press Images.
Armero, Colombia, 16 November 1985. Twelve-year-old Omayra Sanchez trapped
in the debris caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruíz volcano. After sixty hours
she eventually lost consciousness and died.

About the image
It was hard for Fournier to describe how he felt when he encountered this little girl, and how he kept talking to her, to try and keep her alive. He felt devastated when he found out she had died. Thanks to pictures like this one, the intensity and the violence of the situation could be felt far outside Colombia.

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Alon Reininger, USA/Israel, Contact Press Images.
San Francisco, USA, September 1986. Ken Meeks' skin is marked with lesions caused by Aids-related Kaposi's Sarcoma.

About the image
Meeks' partner informed Reininger about Meeks's condition, after which he flew cross-country to see if he could see him before it was too late. Reininger tried to keep the Aids story alive, despite the fact that most magazines were not interested in covering the epidemic, but winning led to some short-term exposure for his cause.

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Anthony Suau, USA, Black Star.
Kuro, South Korea, 18 December 1987.
A mother pleads with the riot police after her son was arrested at a demonstration accusing the government of fraud in the presidential election.

About the image
Suau was covering the South Korean elections for Time magazine when he captured this poignant shot.

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David Turnley, USA, Black Star/Detroit Free Press.
Leninakan, USSR, December 1988.
Boris Abgarzian grieves for his 17-year-old son, victim of the Armenian earthquake.

About the image
Traveling with his twin brother in Armenia at the time of the earthquake, Turnley and his sibling were struck by the selflessness of the Armenian people, who were literally willing to give you the clothes off their own backs, even if that was the last material thing they owned.

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Charlie Cole, USA, Newsweek.
Beijing, China, 4 June 1989.
Demonstrator confronts a line of People's Liberation Army tanks during Tiananmen Square demonstrations for democratic reform.

About the image
Trying to control his breath and steady his shots Cole thought "If this kid's going to give his life in protest I have a responsibility to nail the shot."

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Georges Merillon, France, Gamma.
Nogovac, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, 28 January 1990. Mourners at the deathbed of Elshani Nashim (27), who was killed during a protest against Yugoslavia's decision to abolish the autonomy of Kosovo.

About the image
If he had not had the good fortune to find an Albanian journalist, who was prepared to act as an intermediary, Merillon would not have gained access to the house.

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David Turnley, USA, Black Star/Detroit Free Press.
Iraq, February 1991.
US Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz mourns the death of fellow soldier Andy Alaniz, a victim of friendly fire on the final day of fighting in the Gulf War.

About the image
Sitting knee-to-knee with the soldier who just realized his best friend is dead, Turnley pondered his position as a photographer - the ability to enter people's lives in very intimate ways - and tried to preserve his subject's dignity. He feels his photo reinforces the reality of war, that no matter the politics, human life is at risk.

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James Nachtwey, USA, Magnum Photos, USA for Libération, France.
Bardera, Somalia, November 1992. Mother lifts up the body of her child, a famine victim, to bring it to the grave.

About the image
Contracting dengue fever and amoebic parasites were worth it for Nachtwey, because his efforts helped raise awareness about Somalia. He felt that shooting in black and white crystallized the emotional impact of the situation and made the message stronger - clear-cut, almost brutal in its simplicity.

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Larry Towell, Canada, Magnum Photos.
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, March 1993. Palestinian boys raise their toy guns in a defiant gesture.

About the image
Towell took the shot of children playing with toy guns from a car. It was dangerous to work alone in Gaza, because everyone was a suspected spy, so he was always accompanied by a Palestinian. New to press photography, and not widely known thus far, everything changed after he won two first prizes, and the Picture of the Year.

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James Nachtwey, USA, Magnum Photos for Time.
Rwanda, June 1994.
Hutu man mutilated by the Hutu 'Interahamwe' militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels.

About the image
Nachtwey says his specialty is dealing with ground level realities with a human dimension. He feels that people need photography to help them understand what's going on in the world, and believes that pictures can have a great influence on shaping public opinion and mobilizing protest.

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Lucian Perkins, USA, The Washington Post.
Chechnya, May 1995.
A young boy peers out of a bus loaded with refugees as they flee fighting between Chechen independence fighters and Russians near Shali, Chechnya. the bus was heading back towards Grozny.

About the image
The boy's expression mirrored all that Perkins had experienced and seen himself, and leaning out of his car, he attempted to steady his camera, focus and shoot. He says he knew this was a special image, mostly because of the symbolic meaning it had for him, but it was not an image he believed would win a contest.

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Francesco Zizola, Italy, Agenzia Contrasto.
Kuito, Angola, 1996.
Landmine victims in Kuito, a town where many people were killed and traumatized during the civil war.

About the image
Zizola remembers noticing that the war left scars on the local population, the least of which were the physical ones. Despite all this, he was struck by the children's desire and need to return to life and to play.

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Hocine, Algeria, Agence France-Presse.
Algiers, Algeria, 23 September 1997.
A woman cries outside the Zmirli Hospital, where the dead and wounded had been taken after a massacre in Bentalha.

About the image
Following the wounded to the nearest hospital, Hocine describes an apocalyptic scene of screaming women. One stood out. She was sliding down the wall, as if to faint, and his only concern was to document the pain of Algerian mothers after the massacres they'd just survived.

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Dayna Smith, USA, The Washington Post.
Izbica, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, 6 November 1998.
At a funeral, relatives and friends comfort the widow of a Kosovo Liberation Army fighter who had been shot dead the previous day while on patrol.

About the image
Smith stopped off at a small village, where several Albanian men had been killed the previous day. She concentrated on the distraught widow of a well-respected fighter. It was a dark, drizzly day, which contributed to the atmosphere. Smith has since become an editor.

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Claus Bjørn Larsen, Denmark, Berlingske Tidende.
Kukës, Albania, April 1999. Wounded Kosovo Albanian Man walks the
streets of Kukës in Albania, one of the largest gathering points for
ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing violence in Kosovo.

About the image
Larsen saw this bandaged man one morning, and tried to talk to him via an interpreter, but the man kept walking, so he took five frames - none of which were ever published. He now works as Chief Photographer for the same newspaper that he worked for at the time.

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Lara Jo Regan, USA, for Life.
Texas, USA, 2000.
Uncounted Americans: The mother of a Mexican immigrant family makes piñatas to support herself and her children, in Texas.

About the image
Regan spent most of the day in the family's primitive home, waiting for their self-consciousness to dissolve, and once they started moving and interacting naturally, the perfect shot just came together.

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Erik Refner, Denmark, for Berlingske Tidende.
Jalozai refugee camp, Pakistan, juni 2001
The body of an Afghan refugee boy is prepared for burial

About the image
Refner went to pay his condolences to the dead boy's father and was allowed to take pictures of the preparations for his burial. The enormous interest in his work generated by the award kick-started his career. He was just a mere student before.

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Eric Grigorian, Armenia/USA, Polaris Images.
Qazvin Province, Iran, 23 June 2002.
Surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of earthquake, a boy holds his dead father's trousers as he squats beside the spot where his father is to be buried.

About the image
Battling the light, and his discomfort, Grigorian shot only five frames, including his winning shot of a boy, who he says seemed oblivious to the world.

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Jean-Marc Bouju, France, The Associated Press.
An Najaf, Iraq, 31 March 2003. Iraqi man comforts his son at a holding center for prisoners of war.

About the image
Working quickly and discreetly, Bouju couldn't help thinking about his own child, and how it would be if the roles were reversed.

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Arko Datta, India, Reuters, 2004.
Woman mourns relative killed in tsunami, Cuddalore, India, Tamil Nadu, 28 December 2004

About the image
Datta had to shoot fast, before they took the bloated body away. He felt that its gruesomeness would've distracted too much from the grieving subject of the picture, so he decided just to include the hand.

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Finbarr O'Reilly, Canada, Reuters.
Mother and child at emergency feeding center, Tahoua, Niger, 1 August

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Op dinsdag 28 november 2006 23:45 schreef Boe-man het volgende:
Mooie OP, zitten prachtige foto's bij.
Zijn deze foto's ook in hogere resolutie beschikbaar ergens?

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Op woensdag 29 november 2006 00:09 schreef whizzer2250 het volgende:

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Dit is wat ik heb kunnen vinden... Niet echt zeer grote resolutie maar groter dan de foto's in de OT

klikkerdeklik

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Reinhard Krause

Russian soldiers sing a farewell song at the last remaining military base in Berlin August 25, 1994

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Op woensdag 29 november 2006 10:14 schreef Falco het volgende:
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