The young Phan Thị Kim Phúc and other children flee with severe burns caused by napalm, mistakenly dropped by South Vietnamese planes.

On 1 February 1968, the South Vietnamese police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan summarily executes Viet Cong prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém on a street in Saigon with a bullet to the head.Īn Irish Catholic wearing a gas mask stands in front of a wall with the graffiti we want peace, moments before teargas is thrown by British troops.Īfter a bank robbery in Saarbrücken, a shootout takes place between police and the bank robbers. This was the first colour photograph to win the award. The commander of an M48 Patton looks through his lens. On 24 February 1966, American troops drag the body of a Viet Cong fighter behind their M113 Armored Personnel Carrier for burial, after he was killed in a fierce night attack by several Viet Cong battalions against Australian forces during the Battle of Suoi Bong Trang. The Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức sets himself ablaze in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem.Ī Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, victim of the Greek–Turkish civil war.Ī mother and her children wade through a river in Loc Thuong in the South Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh to escape US bombing.

On 12 October 1960, the 17-year-old extreme right-wing student Otoya Yamaguchi kills the socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma with a sword during a speech in Tokyo's Hibiya Hall.ĭuring the El Porteñazo military rebellion, a dying soldier clings to a priest with sniper fire all around them. On 28 August 1955, at Volk Mølle Racetrack in Assentoft, Denmark, a motorcyclist crashes during a competition.Ī German World War II prisoner is released by the Soviet Union and reunited with his 12-year-old daughter in West Germany, who has not seen him since infancy.Īccompanied by violence and harassment, Dorothy Counts becomes one of the first African American students at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.ĭuring a football game between the teams Sparta Praha and Červená Hviezda Bratislava, Sparta's goalkeeper Miroslav Čtvrtníček stands on the football field in pouring rain. The following is a list of all winners of the Press Photo of the Year, and information on the respective images. In addition to the two main prizes, 3 single photo prizes and 3 story prizes are also awarded in each of eight categories. The creators of the two main awards receive a cash prize corresponding to €5,000. The jury, composed of 10 members, also assigns the World Press Photo Story of the Year to a multi-image story that explores a theme of social relevance distinguished by photographic intensity and importance of the content.

is not only the photojournalistic encapsulation of the year, but represents an issue, situation or event of great journalistic importance, and does so in a way that demonstrates an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity.' The World Press Photo of the Year award is part of the World Press Photo Awards, organized by the Dutch foundation World Press Photo.Ĭonsidered one of the most prestigious and coveted awards in photojournalism, The World Press Photo of the Year is awarded to the image that '. Photography award established by World Press Photo Foundation in 1955

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