Study: 2013 World Press Photo

2013 WORLD PRESS PHOTO

VIEW THE ENTIRE COLLECTION OF WINNING IMAGES FROM THE 56TH WORLD PRESS PHOTO CONTEST. THE WINNERS WERE SELECTED FROM OVER 100,000 IMAGES SUBMITTED TO THE CONTEST.

SYRIA UNDER SIEGE 08 August 2012 Zabadani, Syria

ALESSIO ROMENZI NATIONALITY: Italy WEBSITE: alessioromenzi.photoshelter.com

Flares seek to light up Free Syrian Army positions as government forces shell the village.

The civilian unrest in the Syrian Arab Republic began in March 2011 and continues to affect people, particularly in the most vulnerable segments of the population. At least 60,000 people have been killed since uprising began, according to the United Nations (UN), and the number of Syrian refugees registered by the UN in the Middle East and North Africa has surpassed half a million. The situation continues to deteriorate in villages and cities in the country, leaving people without protection, shelter, food and water and facing fear every day.

GAZA BURIAL 20 November 2012 Gaza City, Palestinian Territories

Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike. Their father Fouad was also killed and their mother was put in intensive care. Fouad’s brothers carry his children to the mosque for the burial ceremony as his body is carried behind on a stretcher.

PAUL HANSEN NATIONALITY: Sweden WEBSITE: www.paulhansen.se

AIDA 10 March 2012 Idib, Syria

Aida cries while recovering from severe injuries she received when her house was shelled by the Syrian Army. Her husband and two children were fatally wounded during the shelling.

RODRIGO ABD NATIONALITY: Argentina WEBSITE: rodrigoabd.com

SUDAN BORDER WARS 17 April 2012 Heglig, Sudan

A Sudan Armed Forces soldier lies dead in a pool of oil next to a leaking oil facility. He was killed during heavy fighting with southern Sudanese SPLA troops, after they entered the northern Sudan oil town during a brief but bloody border war between the two countries.

DOMINIC NAHR NATIONALITY: Switzerland WEBSITE: www.dominicnahr.com

BATTLE TO DEATH 11 October 2012 Aleppo, Syria

FABIO BUCCIARELLI NATIONALITY: Italy WEBSITE: www.fabiobucciarelli.com

A Free Syrian Army fighter prepares to fire a rocket-propelled grenade against government forces.

In the wake of the Arab Spring, public demonstrations in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011.

Within a short time, clashes erupted across the country and led to civil war: an ongoing conflict that sees the government’s forces opposed by the Free Syrian Army coalition. In July 2012, after more than a year of conflict, fighting reaches Aleppo, a stronghold of the revolutionary forces. The battle for the city becomes a real massacre. Every day, revolutionary fighters armed only with Kalashnikov rifles face the loyalist army and its tanks and aircrafts. According to the United Nations, more than 60,000 people have died in Syria’s 22-month-old civil war.

JAVIER MANZANO NATIONALITY: Mexico WEBSITE: www.javiermanzano.com

SIEGE OF ALEPPO 18 October 2012 Aleppo, Syria

Two rebel soldiers stand guard in the Karmel Jabl neighborhood of Aleppo. The dust from more than one hundred days of shelling, bombing, and firefights hung thick in the air around them as they took turns guarding their machine-gun nests.

WOUNDED BABY, ALEPPO 03 October 2012 Aleppo, Syria

A severely wounded child awaits medical treatment by the small staff of doctors in one of the city’s last standing hospitals, as President Bashar al-Assad’s army steps up its military campaign to regain control of the city.

SEBASTIANO TOMADA NATIONALITY: USA WEBSITE: sebastianotomada.com

POOL HALL ATTACK 11 March 2012 San Pedro Sula, Honduras

The bodies of Lesbia Altamirano and Wilmer Orbera lie on the floor of a pool hall after being attacked by unidentified masked assailants in Choloma on the outskirts of the city. A wave of violence has made Honduras among the most dangerous places on Earth, with a homicide rate roughly 20 times that of the U.S. rate, according to a 2011 United Nations report.

ESTEBAN FELIX NATIONALITY: Peru

JAPAN AFTER THE WAVE 02 March 2012 Ishinomaki, Japan

People walk down a road in a neighborhood ravaged by the tsunami.

DANIEL BEREHULAK NATIONALITY: Australia WEBSITE: www.danielberehulak.com

One year later, areas of Japan most impacted by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that left 15,848 dead and 3,305 missing, continue to struggle. Thousands of people remain living in temporary dwellings. The government faces an uphill battle with the need to dispose of rubble as it works to rebuild economies and livelihoods.

View the entire collection of winning images from the 56th World Press Photo Contest.

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MISS MY PARENTS SO MUCH 02 March 2012 Ishinomaki, Japan

Wu Mingjie, 4, parents working in Guangdong Province.

Across China, nearly 50 million children do not live with their parents. Nearly every young person in Zhangmu, a village near Chongqing, works far from home, and 21 children were left behind. Fu Huaying is a substitute teacher in the village. All of the children love her, and she loves them too.

FU YONGJUN NATIONALITY: China WEBSITE: fuyongjun.kpkpw.com/

American Girl is a popular line of dolls that can be customized to look exactly like their owners. Kayla poses with her lookalike doll against a portrait of her ancestors.

ILONA SZWARC NATIONALITY: Poland WEBSITE: www.ilonaszwarc.com

KAYLA 19 February 2012 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

EARLY MORNING 08 July 2012 Jeselo, Italy Summer holiday camping. Someone is up a little too early.

SĂ˜REN BIDSTRUP NATIONALITY: Denmark

FOOTBALL IN GUINEA-BISSAU 03 March 2012 Dulombi, Guinea Bissau

Many young football players around the world touch their first ball on a field of bare dirt. Here a youth group plays on a ‘football field’ that was the site of military barracks and fields of the former Portuguese colonies in the country.

DANIEL RODRIGUES NATIONALITY: Portugal

SUMO WRESTLERS 22 February 2012 Tokyo, Japan

DENIS ROUVRE NATIONALITY: France WEBSITE: www.rouvre.com

Kenji Daido The life-long discipline, harsh physical training, and preparation for the fight can explain the half-god status of Sumo in Japan today. Part of a team, the wrestlers are required to follow a strongly codified community life; the youngest execute tasks for the community and even serve the oldest.

Every morning, children from nearby slums arrive in small groups, barefoot and carrying mats and brooms and start cleaning a portion of a land under a metro rail bridge, which will be their school for the rest of the morning. Rajesh Kumar Sharma, along with his friend, founded the free school for underprivileged children under a metro bridge a year ago.

He teaches at least 45 children every day. Sharma, a 40-year-old father of three from Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, was forced to drop out of college in his third year due to financial difficulties.

He didn’t want other children to face the same difficulties, so he decided to start the free school.

SCHOOL FOR LESS FORTUNATE 07 November 2012 New Delhi, India

ALTAF QADRI NATIONALITY: India WEBSITE: www.altafqadri.com