Press Photo awards: Celebrating the news images of 2011

[caption id=“attachment_211723” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“The World Press Photo of the Year. A woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011. Samuel Aranda/The New York Times”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_211725” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Daily Life, 1st prize singles: A picture of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, decorates a building in the capital Pyongyang. Damir Sagolj/Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_211728” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“The 1st prize Contemporary Issues Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Stephanie Sinclair, USA, VII Photo Agency for National Geographic magazine shows Tahani (in pink), who married her husband Majed when she was 6 and he was 25, posing for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajjah, Yemen, June 10, 2010. Nearly half of all women in Yemen were married as children. Stephanie Sinclair, VII Photo Agency for National Geographic magazine/AP”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_211737” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“A 22-year-old woman in a wedding gown is grabbed by Guo Zhongfan, a local community officer, as she attempts to kill herself by jumping out of a seven-storey residential building in Changchun, Jilin province May 17, 2011. According to local media, the woman tried to commit suicide after her boyfriend of four years broke up with her, just as they were making plans to get married. The woman did not sustain any injuries during the incident. Picture taken May 17, 2011. China Daily/Reuters”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_211738” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“1st prize People in the News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest by Yasuyoshi Chiba, Japan, Agence France-Presse shows the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, April 3, 2011. Chieko Matsukawa shows her daughter’s graduation certificate as she finds it in the debris in Higashimatsushima city, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. Yasuyoshi Chiba, AFP/AP”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_211739” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“The 2nd prize People in the News Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Tomasz Lazar, Poland shows the arrest of protesters in Harlem, New York City, during a demonstration against police tactics and income inequality, Oct 25, 2011. Tomasz Lazar/AP”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_211741” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“The 1st prize General News Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Alex Majoli, Italy, Magnum Photos for Newsweek shows protesters cry, chant and scream in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, after listening to the speech in which Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would not give up power in Cairo, Egypt, Feb 10, 2011. Alex Majoli, Magnum Photos for Newsweek/AP”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_211743” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“The 2nd prize Sports Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Adam Pretty, Australia, Getty Images shows divers practicing during the 14th FINA World Championships at the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China, July 17, 2011. Adam Pretty, Getty Images/AP”] [/caption]

Press Photo awards: Celebrating the news images of 2011

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award on Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen

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