The pictures that you are about to see our not some ordinary photographs. These pictures are world’s best photographs in the world at present.
This photograph taken at the sea shore of Djibouti, east Africa bagged the honour of being at the top in world’s biggest Press Photo contest. This picture has been clicked by American photojournalist John Stanmeyer. The shadowy people shown in the image are trying to get signal in their mobile phone from neighbouring country Somalia so that they could talk to their relatives before starting a new life.
There were several photographs that were selected to be honoured in the world press photo contest. The first prize in the category of spot news story went to the photographer of Reuters in Siberia. The picture shows the protest in Syria in a very dramatic manner.
This was the 57th contest and over one lakh entries were registered for 18 categories, out of which only 53 were selected. The winning images will be shown in many exhibition for an year. The exhibition will begin on 18th April.
Photographer: Peter Holgersson, Sweden
Category: Sports feature, first prize
Photographer: Goran Tomasevic, Rueters, Germany
Category: Spot news, First prize
Photographer: Philip Lopez, France
Category: Spot news, single, first prize
Photographer: Steve winter, America
Category: Nature, first prize
Photographer: Christopher Wanega, Maxico
Category: Contemporary, third prize
Photographer: Carla Kogelman
Category: Portrait, first prize
Photographer: Taylor Hiks, America
Category: Spot news, second prize
Photographer: Brent Stirton, South Africa
Category: People, first prize
Photographer: Marx, Germany
Category: Observed portrait, single, first prize
Photographer: William Daniel, France
Category: General news, second prize
Photograph: alessandro penso, Italy
Category: General news, first prize
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