'world press photo awards' - tagged features

Photo-journalists have just had their big night in front of the camera. The World Press Photo Awards are seen as the photography world’s equivalent of the Oscars. The winners were announced in a ceremony in Amsterdam last friday. The top prize was taken by British photographer Tim Hetherington for his shot of an American soldier in Afghanistan. The subject is clearly exhausted and is resting inside a bunker with one hand held up to his forehead. Also exhausted were the awards judges. They had to look at over 80,000 entries in just a few days. Panel judge MaryAnne Golon, Head of photography at Time Magazine and chairman of the judging panel, Gary Knight, both spoke to Network Europe about their impressions of this year’s entries.