Matt LevitchUSA1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Death in the Streets of Port-au-Prince" A body burns in the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake. As the crippled government struggled to provide any measure of aid to its... |
Ronald de HommelColombia2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Central African Republic, the forgotten heart of Africa" Rebels have used a small school in Patcho in the centre of the country as their headquarters for a while. They decorated the walls with their graffiti. The building is now used as a school again but... |
Pierpaolo MitticaItaly3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "beggar of our conscience, Mumbai, India" That beggar represents all the things we would never see: the poverty, the indigence, the indifference, the injustices, the abuses of power. This beggar is the manifest of the violations of human... |
Luca Kleve-RuudNorwayHonorable Mention "Haiti" Port Au Prince. 250.000 persons died during the Haiti-earthquake January 2010. |
Christopher CapozzielloUSAHonorable Mention "Hanging Doll" His parents, longtime members of the Ku Klux Klan laugh because to them it is a joke, but I look at his eyes and his hands clenching the stick. He beats the doll, looking to his parents for approval... |
Morganna MageeAustraliaHonorable Mention "Tyler" Tyler's mother inserts his prosthetic eye. Tyler lost both of his eyes to cancer when he was 3 years old. |
Ian MartinUSAHonorable Mention "Cards" VEREENIGING, SOUTH AFRICA: A woman plays a card game on her bed in the abandoned hospital she calls home. |
Adam ParkerUKNominee "Bloke's Khazi" |
Alan K. E. A. MarquesBrazilNominee "Water" The strongest earthquake in modern time hit Port-Au-Principe, Haiti's capital, in January 2010. This Natural disaster destroyed all city and force Haitians to look for international help and for food... |
Alex KaeslinSwitzerlandNominee "Boat Life" overcrowded boat travelling in Indonesia |
Alix de MontaiguFranceNominee "Tuol Sleng S 21" |
Alix de MontaiguFranceNominee "Doubts in hospital" |
Branca NitzscheUSANominee "Growing up in the Favelas#57" |
Brett Howard NelsonUSANominee "Gum Wall Window" The Gum Wall - Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington |
Carol Allen-StoreyUKNominee "africas new tribe ORPHANS_004" Living rough is a way of life for the Dustbin tribe. Corrugated cartons have a multitude of practical applications. For the tribe they are used as a mattress, blanket and when it rains, the boys... |
Carol Allen-StoreyUKNominee "RELUCTANT sex workers_001" ‘Sex for Survival’ is the mantra many of the women chant in a fishing village where widows have assumed the awesome responsibility of raising their family, where they have no means of support. The... |
Carol Allen-StoreyUKNominee "RELUCTANT sex workers_004" Grace is 32 years old, a widowed sex worker. There has been a cholera epidemic and she has been acutely affected. Her husband died of the AIDS virus when she was pregnant but unfortunately she did... |
David FinneganAustraliaNominee "What a Circus" Crosses on the beach next to Santa Monica Pier mark the lost American lives in the Iraq War. In the background Cirque Du Soleil's Circus Tent |
Dina LitovskyUSANominee "Backstage at Club Mansion" Amature Models preparing for a catwalk show, New Year's celebration. |
Edwin KooSingaporeNominee "Paradise Lost" Refugees wait for tea at Sheik Yasin camp, Mardan, Pakistan. More than two million refugees have poured out of Swat Valley as the Pakistan army launched a massive operation to eliminate Taliban... |
Ertugrul KilicSurinameNominee "Independence Square" A bird cage hanged to Independence Square sign |
Francesco CarellaFranceNominee "Dogs" Pickup dogs |
Francisco Mata RosasMexicoNominee "Three friends." Three friends live together in Centro Habana neighborhood, in a poor conditions, they walk the streets for money. |
Gary MatosoUSANominee "Telephones" Public phone booths, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Gerald RattoUSANominee "Last Saloon" We Shall Meet Again |
Giles DuleyUKNominee "Nun, Angola" A nun serves dinner at an orphanage, Angola. |
Giuliano KorenItalyNominee "human dignity" Father Marian Zelazek's leprosy village in Puri, India. The responsible for the kitchen of the village while managing the accounts. |
Giuliano KorenItalyNominee "Ray of shadow" Italian troops inside a military aircraft during flight transfer, northern Afghanistan. |
heath korvolaUSANominee "blackfeet 2" blackfeet reservation, montana |
Henny GarfunkelUSANominee "Border Crossing" |
Ian MartinUSANominee "Caravan" CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: A young boy plays in a caravan that makes up part of a predominantly white squatter camp in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. |
Ian MartinUSANominee "Bread Line" VEREENIGING, SOUTH AFRICA: Two residents of Vereeniging’s abandoned hospital sit outside the “Our Lady of Perpetual Help” bread line on a hot afternoon. |
Ian MartinUSANominee "Care Centre" GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA: A child naps on the floor of his family's hut at the Sonskynhoekie Care Centre, a non-profit shelter north of Pretoria. |
Ian MartinUSANominee "Tattooed Neighbor" GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA: Residents of the Sonskynhoekie Care Centre, a non-profit shelter north of Pretoria, wait in the evening food line. |
Ian MartinUSANominee "Swimming" CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA: A girl goes "swimming" on a hot South African day in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. |
Jane StockdaleUKNominee "Burning the Indian flag, Pakistan Independence Day, Kashmir" |
Jane ThereseUSANominee "Feed Me" After the coup of Jean-Claude Duvalier, small children beg for food on the side of the road, outside the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti. |
Jarvis GrantUSANominee "Amusement Prisoner" |
Jean ChungKorea (South)Nominee "Tears in the Congo (1)" A male nurse's hand checks the eyes of a victim who briefly opened her eyes unconsciously while receiving a surgery by an American doctor who did volunteer services at Gesom Hospital. This victim's... |
Jean ChungKorea (South)Nominee "Tears in the Congo (2)" A discarded bed inside transit center at Heal Africa Hospital, 2009. At the transit center, women from Nord Kivu receive treatment, surgery, and job training to help women to be more self-reliant in... |
Jenn WarrenUSANominee "Congolese Refugee" Thousands of Congolese refugees flee into Southern Sudan to escape the LRA. |
Jonathan BanksUKNominee "Visa dot Communism" Visa dot Communisim, a visa sign tops the Cuban flag on a tourist bus in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
Josh MeltzerUSANominee "Internal Migration" Migration within Mexico has perhaps had a larger impact on numbers of Mexicans than the better publicized story of immigration to the U.S. Just as America rapidly became urbanized in the early 20th... |
Larry LouieCanadaNominee "Tibetan Monastery I" As the Chinese government relaxes its policies towards Tibet, Tibetan Monasteries and Temples are allowed to return to their usual religious rituals. |
Larry LouieCanadaNominee "In the Brickyard 3" |
Larry LouieCanadaNominee "Underbelly of Kathmandu - My Urban Village" The Underbelly of Kathmandu consists of the new slum areas popping all over the valley. These areas are made up mostly of people displaced from their hillside villages due to the Maoist conflict in... |
Luca Kleve-RuudNorwayNominee "Circus (1)" Underpaid workers putting up the circustent. For less them 100 euro a month they worked 15 hours a day. |
Luca Kleve-RuudNorwayNominee "Rue des miracles" Port Au Prince. He got shot in the back of his head and in the chest for stealing during the Haiti-Earthquake, and was left to bleed to death. The american army rescued him from the angry mob. |
Luca Kleve-RuudNorwayNominee "Circus (2)" Into the sky. It looks like a glamorous job. But the workers at the circus earned less then 100 euro a month. |
luca desiennaUKNominee "Clearance - Rong Moo" Klong Toey, Bangkok. A local tattooed man stands on the entrance of Rong Moo community, probably the most deprived and forgotten area of Klong Toey slums. Part of his area has been marked for... |
luca desiennaUKNominee "Clearance - Between concrete" Klong Toey, Bangkok. A young boy runs between left over concrete pipes destined for a newly planned commercial development. Kids pass their times through debris and wild dogs, they play with whatever... |
Matt LevitchUSANominee "Haitian Earthquake Survivors" Scaling a collapsed roof, residents of Port-au-Prince scavenge for food, water, and anything of resale value in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake. |
Matt LevitchUSANominee "Pilgrimage" Followers of Haiti's Vodou religion bathe in the waterfalls of Sodo, a sacred location believed to be inhabited by divine spirits with magical and healing powers. |
Matt LevitchUSANominee "Woman in Trance" A woman in trance dances in the waterfalls of Sodo, a sacred location that followers of Haiti's Vodou religion believe is inhabited by divine spirits with magical and healing powers. |
Matt LevitchUSANominee "Life and Death in Haiti" Schoolgirls run past a rotting corpse, left on the streets of Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake. |
Nikos PilosGreeceNominee "GREECE IN CRISIS" Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest in Athens on December 6, 2009. Police clashed with hooded youths and the rector of Athens university was injured today as violence flared in a... |
Nitzan HafnerIsraelNominee "War in Gaza residues" A boy walking near a wall damaged by a rocket in the southern city of Ashdod, on the last day of the war. |
Nitzan HafnerIsraelNominee "Living at the bottom" Heli (29) is drug addicted, living at the street proximity the Old central bus station at tel Aviv. |
Nitzan HafnerIsraelNominee "Living at the bottom_5" A policeman standing outside a building on Fein Street proximity the Old central bus station in Tel Aviv. This area of Tel Aviv assemble prostitution and drugs trade. |
oded levyUSANominee "Untitled (2)" photojournalism of photojournalism |
Olwen EvansNew ZealandNominee "Innocent Victim" AIDS in Africa |
Omer MessingerIsraelNominee "Hug " Two teenagers are huging after they found out the identity of the driver that was killed in this car crah,which was their friend. |
Omer MessingerIsraelNominee "conflict in Qualandia2" |
Paolo MarchettiItalyNominee "Young angry of extreme right 02" Rome 2009, Sophie sleeps in his cradle during a party meeting in the headquarters of the extreme right in Rome. |
Paul SwenUSANominee "Cambodia Checkin The Nets" |
Peggy FontenotUSANominee "Arlington West: The Dead and Wounded" And, counting... |
pesarelli stefanoItalyNominee "Grinder" Woman going to the grinder with maize to have flowers |
pesarelli stefanoItalyNominee "Bycicle spare shop" Bycicle spare shop in Malawi, one of the most important shop for the community. |
Scott BarrowUSANominee "Long Term Parking" The last parking place these vehicles will ever find. |
Steffi HarveyUSANominee "Untitled (1)" |
Sue FollUKNominee "Rich people live here" Euston Road, London |
Till MuellenmeisterGermanyNominee "Post Election Crisis " Armed man checks for ethnical identity on a road leading to Mathare Slum, Nairobi, Kenya 2008 |
tony donovanUSANominee "INFORMERS BEWARE" BELFAST, IRELAND 1972. Taken in a community called "Ardoyne" on a hillside in North Belfast. "Ardoyne" means "Owen's Height" in Irish. At the time, it was under siege, a "no go" area, that is, self... |
Tyler StablefordUSANominee "Colorado's Air National Guard Homecoming" Staff Sergeant Joseph Imeraj (foreground) and Technical Sergeant Daniel Bateman of Colorado's Air National Guard 120th Fighter Squadron return from a tour in Iraq to Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora,... |
Victoria Parnall-VaughanUKNominee "KKK" |
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