carlyle campy: 2012 World Press Photo contest winners

Posted Feb 10, 2012

Winners of the World Press Photo contest, which recognizes excellence in photography, were released Friday, February 10, 2012. The winners were selected from more than 100,000 entries submitted by more than 5,200 photographers, according to the World Press Photo competition.

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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2012 World Press Photo of the year by Samuel Aranda, Spain, for The New York Times, shows a woman holding a wounded relative during protests against president Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Samuel Aranda/New York Times)
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A file photo taken on April 3, 2011 shows tsunami survivor Chieko Matsukawa holding her daughter's graduation certificate that she found in debris in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture. Japanese Agence France-Presse photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba won on February 10, 2012 the first prize in the News Stories category of the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images
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In this Sept. 7, 2011 file photo, former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak lies on his bed while being taken to the courtroom for another session of his trial in Cairo, Egypt. The image won the 3rd place prize in People in the News Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/Mohammed al-Law, File)
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In this June 24, 2011 file photo, Canadian Forces soldier, Cpl. Ben Vandandaigue, plays on a drum kit on Forward Operating Base Sperwan Ghar overlooking the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The image won the 1st place prize in the Arts and Entertainment Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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In this July 9, 2011 file photo, futon bedding is left lying on the bedroom floor of an abandoned home in Okuma, Japan which is less than three miles from the damaged nuclear power plant. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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IN this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, parts of the heavily-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station, viewed through a bus window in Okuma. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2nd prize Sports Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Adam Pretty, Australia, Getty Images shows divers practicing during the 14th FINA World Championships at the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China, July 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Adam Pretty, Getty Images)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2nd prize Sports Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Ray McManus, Ireland, Sportsfile shows action from a rugby match between Old Belvedere and Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Ray McManus, Sportsfile)
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In this April 7, 2011 file photo, footprints are left in the dried mud of a street of the Odaka area of Minamisoma, inside the deserted evacuation zone established for the 20 kilometer radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2nd prize Portraits Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest by Ton Koene, The Netherlands shows a recruit at a police training center, Kunduz, Afghanistan, Sept. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Ton Koene)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2nd prize Spot News Stories of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Niclas Hammerstrom, Sweden, for Aftonbladet in Utoya, Norway, July 22, 2011. Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people on 22 July on the small island of Utoya outside Oslo in Norway. (AP Photo/Niclas Hammerstrom/ Aftonbladet )
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Spot News Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest by Yuri Kozyrev, Russia, Noor Images for Time shows rebels in Ras Lanuf, Libya, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Yuri Kozyrev, Noor Images for Time)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize General News Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Alex Majoli, Italy, Magnum Photos for Newsweek shows protesters cry, chant and scream in Cairo's Tahrir Square, after listening to the speech in which Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would not give up power in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Majoli, Magnum Photos for Newsweek)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st Prize Portraits Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest by Laerke Posselt, Denmark, shows Iranian-born Danish actress Mellica Mehraban, Copenhagen, May 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Laerke Posselt)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo the 2nd prize People in the News Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Tomasz Lazar, Poland shows the arrest of protesters in Harlem, New York City, during a demonstration against police tactics and income inequality, Oct. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Tomasz Lazar)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Nature Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Brent Stirton, South Africa, Reportage by Getty Images for National Geographic magazine shows "Rhino Wars", Tugela Private Game Reserve, Colenso, Natal, South Africa, Nov. 9 2010. A female rhino, left, in Natal, South Africa, that four months earlier survived a brutal dehorning by poachers who used a chainsaw to remove her horns and a large section of bone in this area of her skull. (AP Photo/Brent Stirton, Reportage by Getty Images for National Geographic magazine)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2nd prize General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Paolo Pellegrin, Italy, Magnum Photos for Zeit Magazin shows the tsunami aftermath, in Japan, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Paolo Pellegrin, Magnum Photos for Zeit Magazin)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Daily Life Stories of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Alejandro Kirchuk, Argentina "Never Let You Go". Marcos leads Monica from their room to the living room in Buenos Aires. Monica was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. (AP Photo/Alejandro Kirchuk)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Nature Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Jenny E. Ross, USA. Novaya Zemlya, Russia, shows a male polar bear climbing precariously on the face of a cliff above the ocean at Ostrova Oranskie in northern Novaya Zemlya, attempting to feed on seabird eggs. (AP Photo/Jenny E. Ross)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Contemporary Issues Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Stephanie Sinclair, USA, VII Photo Agency for National Geographic magazine shows Tahani (in pink), who married her husband Majed when she was 6 and he was 25, posing for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajjah, Yemen, June 10, 2010. Nearly half of all women in Yemen were married as children. (AP Photo/Stephanie Sinclair, VII Photo Agency for National Geographic magazine)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Daily Life Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Damir Sagolj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Reuters, shows a picture of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, decorating a building in the capital Pyongyang, North Korea, Oct. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Damir Sagolj, Reuters)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Arts and Entertainment Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Rob Hornstra, The Netherlands shows the Sochi Project: Sochi Singers Marika Bajur sings 'Kuriu' in the restaurant Eurasia. (AP Photo/Rob Hornstra)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 1st prize Contemporary Issues Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Brent Stirton, South Africa, Reportage by Getty Images for Kiev Independent, shows Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine. Maria injects drugs on a daily basis and sees many men every week but claims she remains HIV negative. She says she need the money to support herself, her drug habit and her nine-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/Brent Stirton, Reportage by Getty Images for Kiev Independent)
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In this photo provided on Friday Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo, the 2nd prize Arts and Entertainment Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest by Vincent Boisot, France, Riva Press for Le Figaro Magazine, shows a model posing in front of tailor stalls in the center of Dakar, Senegal, July 9, 2011. She wears the creation of a designer, Yolande Mancini, participating in the 9th edition of Dakar Fashion Week. (AP Photo/Vincent Boisot/Riva press for Le Figaro Magazine)
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In this June 9, 2011 file photo, evacuee Nobuko Sanpei, 74, eats rice in her cardboard-box home on a hallway floor in a convention center in Koriyama, Japan. Sanpei, who has since moved to a small apartment, farmed rice with her husband in Tomioka, Japan less than 10 kilometers from the Dai-ichi power station. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this June 9, 2011 file photo, 69-year-old and tattooed Toyoo Ide, left, bathes with fellow evacuees in a traditional Japanese-style bath set up in a tent by Japan's Self-Defense Forces at an evacuation center in Koriyama, Japan. "There's no water or electricity now, but if there were, I'd go back, radioactivity or not. I'd go back today. I can't live in a stranger's town," said Ide who was a lifelong employee of the nuclear power plant. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this June 8, 2011 file photo, residents wearing protective suits gather in a gym in Hirono, Japan for a briefing before being escorted to their homes inside the exclusion zone to retrieve a few small items. The government allowed strictly controlled visits by residents and each person had to be tightly screened for radioactive contamination upon return. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this June 5, 2011 file photo, two stray pet dogs fight in the deserted streets of Okuma, Japan. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine)
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In this June 5, 2011 file photo, Leo Hoshi, a Japanese animal rights activist, walks along the Fukushima coast just half a kilometer (550 yards) away from the power plant over the hill ahead of him. Despite stiff penalties for illegally entering the zone, some animal rescuers defied restrictions as they sought to aid pets and farm animals that had been left behind. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this July 9, 2011 file photo, the carcass of a cow decomposes next to a barn at a farm in Naraha, Japan. Farmers across the area had to hastily leave their homes and were unable to evacuate livestock, or return to the irradiated zone to care for them. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this July 24, 2011 file photo, grass sprouts from a wrecked car on the coast where a residential neighborhood once stood in Namie, Japan. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this June 9, 2011 file photo, an evacuee lies down in her makeshift temporary home on the floor of the Big Palette convention center in Koriyama, Japan. Tens of thousands of people fled their homes surrounding the damaged nuclear power plant. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this June 19, 2011 file photo, children's desks, backpacks, and school supplies lie abandoned inside an earthquake-rattled primary school classroom in Namie, Japan. The photo was one in a series of 12 which won the 3rd place prize in the General News Stories category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder for National Geographic Magazine, File)
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In this June 24, 2011 file photo, Canadian Forces soldier, Cpl. Ben Vandandaigue, plays on a drum kit on Forward Operating Base Sperwan Ghar overlooking the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The image won the 1st place prize in the Arts and Entertainment Singles category of the 2012 World Press Photo contest. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)