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World Press Photo of the year: the winner
You touch and make sad: 2015 was a dramatic year, which is also reflected in the press photos, the a lot of suffering, flight and war to tell. We show the outstanding pictures of the year.
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Press photo of the year
The World Press Photo of the year, Warren Richardson on 28. August 2015 included. It shows a man on the Hungarian-Serbian border at Röszke, which is a Baby under a barbed wire fence hindurchreicht. The picture shows impressively the refugee crisis and the hope of a new life expressions. Is created it around 3 o’clock at night.
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Haze over Tianjin
The photographer Zhang Lei has on 10. December 2015, the city of Tianjin photographed in the haze disappears. In the summer in the Northern Chinese metropolis of a warehouse in the port explodes. Apparently there were dangerous chemicals improperly stored. Tens of thousands of houses and flats in the vicinity were by the blast wave damaged or destroyed.
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Exploited Koran pupils in Senegal
The Portuguese photographer Mário Cruz in its series Koran pupils portrayed in Islamic schools in Sengal life. They are called Talibés. Actually, they are as a student came, but instead they are by their religious leaders to Beg, forced to be abused and beaten. Or imprisoned, as the 15-year-old Abdoulaye alone sit behind bars.
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Everyday life in China
In the cold November of the men in the Chinese Shanxi on icy roads. In the Background, blowing coal-fired power density clouds of smoke into the air. The image comes from the canadian Kevin Frayer. Scientists and environmentalists criticize China’s energy policy, because the emitted carbon dioxide (CO2) is warming the global warming and is extremely harmful.
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Everyday life in Antarctica
For its report, the Australian photographer Daniel Berehulak in the Antarctic. At the end of November, he photographed a Chilean scientist in the enlightened Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in the so-called Bellingshausen Station, a Russian Antarctic Station.
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The war leaves a mark
A doctor supplies in a Kurdish hospital in Syria’s 16-year-old Jacob. He has burns all over the body – and is IS-fighter. The Brazilian Mauricio Lima photographed the scene on 1. August. In the Background hangs a portrait of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned PKK leader.
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Refugees, fleeing to Greece
A Symbol of the European refugee crisis: overcrowded boats. Also, Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev held in November 2015, the arrival of refugees in a completely overloaded, tiny boat with his camera – as the boat straight to the coast of the island of Lesbos drag.
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Abuse in the US Army
The photo, taken in March, shows the 21-year-old soldier Natasha Schuette, the U.S. Army, and a supervisor has been abused. In her series of photographs portraying the American photojournalist Mary F. Calvert U.S. soldiers, raped or have been sexually abused. She wants to call attention to the Problem and the Public to galvanize.
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Storm over Sydney
A Tsunami of clouds rolled in at 6. November on the beach of Bondi Beach in Sydney boundaries. Australian photographer Rohan Kelly was not the Only one with his camera out – but he made the most impressive image.
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Endangered monkeys in Indonesia
The image of the Orang-Utans originates from North Sumatra in Indonesia. The American photographer Tim Laman is reminiscent of the life of the Orang-Utans in the wild. They are threatened from all sides: The illegal animal trade, but also the loss of habitat due to deforestation of the forests makes the monkeys hard to create.
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Refugee camp in Serbia
The refugee crisis was in the past few months in Europe the tone. Not surprisingly, that you are also in the photography, news photography reflects. The Slovenian Matic Zorman portrayed on the 7. October a child in a Serbian refugee camp. The rain hits the girl in the face, while it is in a queue waiting to be registered.
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Tschernobyls Follow
The Japanese photographer Kazuma Obara was dedicated in his series of photographs of the Meltdown in Chernobyl: Countless people fell to the nuclear disaster in 1986 to the victim. Obara goes in his Reportage on their tracks. Using age of Ukrainian film-Negative, which is close to Chernobyl, the abandoned town of Pripyat were found, brought as Geisterwesen to life.
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Fall in the Sport
Austrian photographer Christian Walgram has in the sports category the first place. He stopped at the 8. February 2015 the Moment of the Czech Ski-Pro Ondrej Bank during the Abfahrtsrennens at the Alpine world Championships in Colorado crashed. The Whole was serious, the Bank retracts the race.
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Amateurs from the province of
From the Russian province is the image of Russian photographer Vladimir Pesnya. He accompanied for his Reportage was an Amateur ice hockey team. The photo shows the Junior of the “HC Vetluga” in a game against the Team from Sharanga.
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Terror in Syria
The Syrian photographer Sameer Al-Doumy moved with his camera in the city of Douma, a suburb of Damascus. Syrian government forces had the city ever again be attacked, because you as a rebel stronghold. His series shows the destruction and tells of the violence against the population in Syria.
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Press photo of the year
The World Press Photo of the year, Warren Richardson on 28. August 2015 included. It shows a man on the Hungarian-Serbian border at Röszke, which is a Baby under a barbed wire fence hindurchreicht. The picture shows impressively the refugee crisis and the hope of a new life expressions. Is created it around 3 o’clock at night.
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Haze over Tianjin
The photographer Zhang Lei has on 10. December 2015, the city of Tianjin photographed in the haze disappears. In the summer in the Northern Chinese metropolis of a warehouse in the port explodes. Apparently there were dangerous chemicals improperly stored. Tens of thousands of houses and flats in the vicinity were by the blast wave damaged or destroyed.
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Exploited Koran pupils in Senegal
The Portuguese photographer Mário Cruz in its series Koran pupils portrayed in Islamic schools in Sengal life. They are called Talibés. Actually, they are as a student came, but instead they are by their religious leaders to Beg, forced to be abused and beaten. Or imprisoned, as the 15-year-old Abdoulaye alone sit behind bars.
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Everyday life in China
In the cold November of the men in the Chinese Shanxi on icy roads. In the Background, blowing coal-fired power density clouds of smoke into the air. The image comes from the canadian Kevin Frayer. Scientists and environmentalists criticize China’s energy policy, because the emitted carbon dioxide (CO2) is warming the global warming and is extremely harmful.
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Everyday life in Antarctica
For its report, the Australian photographer Daniel Berehulak in the Antarctic. At the end of November, he photographed a Chilean scientist in the enlightened Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in the so-called Bellingshausen Station, a Russian Antarctic Station.
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The war leaves a mark
A doctor supplies in a Kurdish hospital in Syria’s 16-year-old Jacob. He has burns all over the body – and is IS-fighter. The Brazilian Mauricio Lima photographed the scene on 1. August. In the Background hangs a portrait of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned PKK leader.
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Refugees, fleeing to Greece
A Symbol of the European refugee crisis: overcrowded boats. Also, Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev held in November 2015, the arrival of refugees in a completely overloaded, tiny boat with his camera – as the boat straight to the coast of the island of Lesbos drag.
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Abuse in the US Army
The photo, taken in March, shows the 21-year-old soldier Natasha Schuette, the U.S. Army, and a supervisor has been abused. In her series of photographs portraying the American photojournalist Mary F. Calvert U.S. soldiers, raped or have been sexually abused. She wants to call attention to the Problem and the Public to galvanize.
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Storm over Sydney
A Tsunami of clouds rolled in at 6. November on the beach of Bondi Beach in Sydney boundaries. Australian photographer Rohan Kelly was not the Only one with his camera out – but he made the most impressive image.
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Endangered monkeys in Indonesia
The image of the Orang-Utans originates from North Sumatra in Indonesia. The American photographer Tim Laman is reminiscent of the life of the Orang-Utans in the wild. They are threatened from all sides: The illegal animal trade, but also the loss of habitat due to deforestation of the forests makes the monkeys hard to create.
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Refugee camp in Serbia
The refugee crisis was in the past few months in Europe the tone. Not surprisingly, that you are also in the photography, news photography reflects. The Slovenian Matic Zorman portrayed on the 7. October a child in a Serbian refugee camp. The rain hits the girl in the face, while it is in a queue waiting to be registered.
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Tschernobyls Follow
The Japanese photographer Kazuma Obara was dedicated in his series of photographs of the Meltdown in Chernobyl: Countless people fell to the nuclear disaster in 1986 to the victim. Obara goes in his Reportage on their tracks. Using age of Ukrainian film-Negative, which is close to Chernobyl, the abandoned town of Pripyat were found, brought as Geisterwesen to life.
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Fall in the Sport
Austrian photographer Christian Walgram has in the sports category the first place. He stopped at the 8. February 2015 the Moment of the Czech Ski-Pro Ondrej Bank during the Abfahrtsrennens at the Alpine world Championships in Colorado crashed. The Whole was serious, the Bank retracts the race.
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Amateurs from the province of
From the Russian province is the image of Russian photographer Vladimir Pesnya. He accompanied for his Reportage was an Amateur ice hockey team. The photo shows the Junior of the “HC Vetluga” in a game against the Team from Sharanga.
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Terror in Syria
The Syrian photographer Sameer Al-Doumy moved with his camera in the city of Douma, a suburb of Damascus. Syrian government forces had the city ever again be attacked, because you as a rebel stronghold. His series shows the destruction and tells of the violence against the population in Syria.
When 59. World Press Photo contest have more than 5700 photographers from 128 countries participated. The Jury had the winning photo from 82.951 submissions select. Has won the Australian Warren Richardson, a freelance photographer working and currently in Budapest lives. “The image is so strong because of its simplicity and the symbolism of the Stacheldrahtzauns”, said the Chairman of the Jury Francis Kohn. It shows a man on the Hungarian-Serbian border, of a Baby through a hole in the fence is enough. To a picture shoot, he had five days at the border. so Richardson. For the photo, he had no flash can use the would have the police scare and on the refugees, who illegally cross the border wanted to make people aware of. The moonlight was the only light source.
The Premier award for photojournalism
Every year draws the World Press Photo Foundation, the best press photos of the year. The organization is non profit and has its headquarters in the Netherlands. An annually changing Jury of 19 photographers and picture editors picks in different categories – from news to nature to sports photography – the best pictures of the year. Is worth the price of 10,000 euros.
The winning pictures are now in a touring exhibition to see, in 45 countries will be shown. Also, the pictures to a Yearbook published. The competition took place in 1955 for the first Time. It is now regarded the World Press Photo Award is considered the most important international award for photojournalism.
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