Winners of the 2014 World Press Photo AwardsEin Klick auf das entsprechende Bild führt euch bei einer mehrteiligen Bilderserie direkt zur gesamten Galerie.
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Temporary accommodation
Photo by Alessandro Penso, winner of 1st prize General News Singles. Description: Military Ramp, an emergency refugee center, was opened in September 2013 in an abandoned school in Sofia, Bulgaria. The center provides housing for about 800 Syrian refugees, including 390 children. Bulgaria, already hard hit by the economic crisis and heightened political instability, is confronting a refugee crisis that appears to coincide with increased efforts by Greece to close off its border with Turkey. Bulgaria, however, is totally unprepared to face a refugee crisis.
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Bomb maker in Aleppo
Photo by Moises Saman, winner of 2nd prize General News Singles. Description: A bomb maker working for the rebels mixes chemicals in a makeshift bomb factory in a rebel-held district of Aleppo, Syria, on March 20, 2013. As the war in Syria grinds on, the city of Aleppo is falling further victim to the regime’s relentless air bombardment and the rebels’ retaliations and infighting. Aleppo is now divided along several front lines, and has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
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Days of Night - Nights of Day
Photo by Elena Chernyshova, winner of 3rd prize Daily Life Stories. Description: Despite its prosperity, Norilsk, Russia, is facing big problems maintaining its buildings.
Norilsk, Russia, is a mining city north of the polar circle with a population of more than 170,000 people. It is the seventh most polluted city in the world, and 60 percent of its population is involved in industry. Gulag prisoners constructed the city, its mines, and factories. The average temperature is -10C, reaching lows of -55C in winter, when for two months the city is plunged into polar night.
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Typhoon Haiyan
View of a destroyed coastline in Tacloban City. Leyte, Philippines.
Photo by Chris McGrath, winner of 1st prize General News Stories. Description: Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines on November 9. Described as one of the most powerful typhoons ever to hit land, Haiyan left thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless across remote areas of the Philippines. Countries all over the world have pledged relief aid to help support those affected by the typhoon. However, damage to the airport and roads in Tacloban and its surroundings has made reaching the most affected areas extremely difficult. Concerns grow as dead bodies are left out in the open air and access to food, water and shelter is limited.
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Chaos in Central African Republic
Photo by William Daniels , winner of 2nd prize General News Stories. Description: relative of 20-year-old Sept-Abel Sangomalet mourns his death. Muslims stabbed him to death while sleeping in his family home. His body was found outside the house. Bangui, Central African Republic, 09 December 2013.
The Central African Republic has seen more than its fair share of coups and unrest over the five and a half decades since its independence from France. The current crisis, however, triggered by yet another coup, is starting to set in position a well armed, mainly Muslim militia that is refusing to disarm against Anti-balaka, Christian vigilante groups defending the country's majority Christian population. The UN has warned of a potential slide into genocide and France has sent 1,600 troops to protect civilians and disarm the different militia. Bordering on other highly volatile regions in central Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Chad, the conflict is ringing alarm bells across the continent and beyond.
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Nicolette at the orphanage
Photo by Maciek Nabrdalik, winner of 2nd prize Contemporary Issues Singles. Description: Nicolette sits in a meeting room at the orphanage where she now lives in Warsaw, Poland on December 22, 2013. In October 2013 she and her four older brothers were removed from their home. Her mother was expected to spend few months in prison for stealing electricity, and her father was not considered fit to take care for his children on his own. Her parents are allowed to visit three times a week.
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Victims of organized crime
Photo by Christopher Vanegas, winner of 3rd prize Contemporary Issues Singles. Description: Police arrive to a crime scene where two bodies hang from a bridge; another three are on the floor, on March, 08 2013. They had been killed by organized crime in Saltillo, Coahuila, in retaliation against other criminal groups. Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
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War and mental health after crisis
Juba Central Prison. Juba, Sudan. January 2011.
Photo by Robin Hammond, winner of 2nd prize Contemporary Issues Stories. Description: Photos of mentally disabled people in the context of African countries affected by war, failed states, corruption and displacement.
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Sledding race from above
Photo by Jeff Pachoud , winner of 1st prize Sports Feature Singles. Description: Mushers compete in Megève, France, during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race, on January, 18 2013.
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Free diving with sharks
Photo by Donald Miralle, winner of 2nd prize Sports Feature Singles. Description: Ocean Ramsey, a conservationist, photographer and dive safety officer, surfaces while free diving off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on May, 17 2013. Ramsey has dedicated her life to shark conservation, and is known for diving without cages among great whites and tiger sharks to try to change public perception of these apex predators.
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Occupied Pleasures
Photo by Tanya Habjouqa , winner of 2nd prize Daily Life Stories. Description: After encountering grueling traffic at the Qalandia check point, a young man enjoys a cigarette in his car as the back-up finally clears on the last evening of Ramadan, on August, 7 2013. He is bringing home a sheep for the upcoming Eid celebration.
More than four million Palestinians live in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, where the political situation regularly intrudes upon the most mundane of moments. People’s movements are circumscribed and the threat of violence often hangs overhead. This is an exploration of the small moments of pleasure where ordinary men and women demonstrate a desire to live, not just simply survive.
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Ich bin Waldviertel
Photo by Carla Kogelman , winner of 1st prize Observed Portraits Stories. Description: Hannah and Alena. 29 December 2012
A series about two sisters living in the rural village of Merkenbrechts, Austria.