Monday, February 15, 2010

Picture of the day

Via the Guardian comes this look at some of the winners in the World Press Photo Awards 2010.

World press photo of the year: by Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo, showing women shouting on a rooftop in protest at the presidential election results in Tehran

Spot news: third prize stories AFP photographer Palestinian Mohammed Abed came third in this category with his pictures of the shelling in Gaza

Spot news: second prize stories AFP photographer Olivier Laban-Mattei took a second place with his images of post-election protests in Tehran

Nature: first prize stories Canadian photographer Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, won first prize in this category for South Georgia, Antarctica

People in the news: second prize singles The runner-up in this category was American photographer David Guttenfelder for Associated Press, who showed US soldiers responding to Taliban fire outside their bunker in Korengal valley

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