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Premios del World Press Photo 2015
Selección de 19 fotos premiadas en el World Press Photo 2015.
Para ver todos los premios ingresar a: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/awards/2015
World Press Photo of the Year 2014
First Prize Contemporary Issues, Singles
Mads Nissen, Denmark, Scanpix/Panos Pictures
St. Petersburg, Russia
Jon and Alex, a gay couple, during an intimate moment.
Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people is becoming increasingly difficult in Russia. Sexual minorities face legal and social discrimination, harassment, and even violent hate-crime attacks from conservative religious and nationalistic groups.
First Prize Portraits Category, Singles
Raphaela Rosella, Australia, Oculi
Moree, New South Wales, Australia
Laurinda waits in her purple dress for the bus that will take her to Sunday School. She is among the many socially isolated young women in disadvantaged communities in Australia facing entrenched poverty, racism, trans-generational trauma, violence, addiction, and a range of other barriers to health and well-being.
Second Prize Daily Life Category, Singles
Åsa Sjöström, Sweden, Moment Agency / INSTITUTE for Socionomen / UNICEF
Baroncea, Moldova
Igor hands out chocolates to a classmate to celebrate his ninth birthday. When he and his twin brother Arthur were two years old, their mother traveled to Moscow to work in the construction field and later died. They have no father. They are among thousands of children growing up without their parents in the Moldovan countryside. Young people have fled the country, leaving a dwindling elderly population and young children.
Second Prize Daily Life Category, Stories
Sarker Protick, Bangladesh
John wears his grandson’s bowler hat
Story: It was in the afternoon. I was sitting on my grandpa’s couch. The door was slightly open, and I saw light coming through, washed out between the white door and white walls. All of a sudden it all started making sense. I could relate what I was seeing with what I felt. John and Prova, my grandparents. Growing up, I found much love and care from them. They were young and strong...
First Prize General News Category, Singles
Sergei Ilnitsky, Russia, European Pressphoto Agency
26 August, Donetsk, Ukraine
Damaged goods lie in a kitchen in downtown Donetsk. Ordinary workers, miners, teachers, pensioners, children, and elderly women and men are in the midst of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Artillery fire killed three people and wounded 10 on 26 August 2014.
Second Prize Contemporary Issues Category, Singles
Ronghui Chen, China, City Express
Yiwu, China
Wei, a 19-year-old Chinese worker, wearing a face mask and a Santa hat, stands next to Christmas decorations being dried in a factory as red powder used for coloring hovers in the air. He wears six masks a day and the hat protects his hair from the red dust, which covers workers from head to toe like soot after several hours of work.
Second Prize Sports Category, Singles
Al Bello, USA, Getty Images
East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Odell Beckham (#13) of the New York Giants makes a one-handed touchdown catch in the second quarter against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium.
Third Prize Portraits Category, Stories
Paolo Verzone, Italy, Agence Vu
Breda, The Netherlands
Cadet in the Koninklijke Militaire Academie
Story: Portraits of cadets from the most important military academies of Europe.
First Prize Nature Category, Stories
Anand Varma, USA, for National Geographic Magazine
When spores of the fungus land on an ant, they penetrate its exoskeleton and enter its brain, compelling the host to leave its normal habitat on the forest floor and scale a nearby tree. Filled to bursting with fungus, the dying ant fastens itself to a leaf or another surface. Fungal stalks burst from the ant's husk and rain spores onto ants below to begin the process again.
Third Prize Contemporary Issues Category, Stories
Tomas van Houtryve, Belgium, VII for Harper’s Magazine
El Dorado County, California, United States
Students in a schoolyard.
Story: Several thousand people have been killed by covert U.S. drone strikes since 2004. The photographer bought his own drone, mounted a camera and traveled across the US looking for similar situations as mentioned in strike reports from Pakistan and Yemen, including weddings, funerals, and groups of people praying or exercising...
Second Prize Nature Category, Singles
Ami Vitale, USA, National Geographic
Lewa Downs, Northern Kenya
A group of young Samburu warriors encounter a rhino for the first time in their lives. Most people in Kenya never get the opportunity to see the wildlife that exists literally in their own backyard.
First Prize Long-Term Projects
Darcy Padilla, USA, Agence Vu
Family Love 1993-2014 – The Julie Project
28 January 1993, San Francisco, California, USA
I first met Julie on January 28, 1993. Julie, 18, stood in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, barefoot, pants unzipped, and an 8 day-old infant in her arms. She lived in San Francisco’s SRO district, a neighborhood of soup kitchens and cheap rooms. Her room was piled with clothes, overfull ashtrays and trash. She lived with Jack, father of her first baby Rachel, and who had given her AIDS. Her first memory of her mother is getting drunk with her at 6 and then being sexually abused by her stepfather...
First Prize General News Category, Stories
Pete Muller, USA, Prime for National Geographic / The Washington Post
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Medical staff at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center work to escort a man in the throes of Ebola-induced delirium back into the isolation ward from which he escaped. In a state of confusion, he emerged from the isolation ward and attempted to escape over the back wall of the complex before collapsing in a convulsive state. A complete breakdown of mental facilities is a common stage of advanced Ebola. The man pictured here died shortly after this picture was taken.
Second Prize General News Category, Single
Massimo Sestini, Italy
7 June, off the coast of Libya
Shipwrecked people are rescued aboard a boat 20 miles north of Libya by a frigate of the Italian navy. After hundreds of men, women and children had drowned in 2013 off the coast of Sicily and Malta, the Italian government put its navy to work under a campaign called “Mare Nostrum” rescuing refugees at sea. Only in 2014, 170,081 people were rescued and taken to Italy.
Second Prize Spot News Category, Stories
Jérôme Sessini, France, Magnum Photos for De Standaard
19-21 February, Kiev, Ukraine
A protester calls for medical aid for a comrade shot dead.
After several months of violence, anti-government protesters remained mobilized by holding barricades in Kiev’s Independence Square, known simply as the Maidan. On Saturday, 20 February, unidentified snipers opened fire on unarmed protesters as they were advancing on Instituska Street. According to an official source, 70 protesters were shot dead...
First Prize Sports Category, Singles
Bao Tailiang, China, Chengdu Economic Daily
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Argentina player Lionel Messi comes to face the World Cup trophy during the final celebrations at Maracana Stadium. His team lost to Germany 1-0, after a goal by Mario Götze in extra time.
Second Prize General News Category, Stories
Glenna Gordon, USA
Abuja, Nigeria
School uniforms belonging to three of the missing girls.
In her school notebook, Hauwa Nkeki wrote a letter to her brother: "Dear Brother Nkeki, Million of greetings goes to you thousand to your friend zero to your enemies." Hauwa is one of the nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped by the Islamic militants Boko Haram on 14 April 2014 from their school dormitory in Chibok, a remote village in northern Nigeria. Boko Haram’s name translates roughly to “Western Education is Sinful.” The group believes that girls shouldn’t be in school and boys should only learn the Koran...
First Prize Spot News Category, Singles
Bulent Kilic, Turkey, Agence France-Presse
March 12, 2014, Istanbul
A young girl is pictured after she was wounded during clashes between riot-police and protestors after the funeral of Berkin Elvan, the 15-year-old boy who died from injuries suffered during last year's anti-government protests. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at protestors in the capital Ankara, while in Istanbul, crowds shouting anti-government slogans lit a huge fire as they made their way to a cemetery for the burial of Berkin Elvan.
First Prize Nature Category, Singles
Yongzhi Chu, China
Suzhou, Anhui Province, China
A monkey being trained for circus cowers as its trainer approaches. With more than 300 roupes, Suzhou is known as the home of the Chinese circus.
