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  1. 2005

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    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Chris Hondros
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Getty Images
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 18-01-2005
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Tal Afar
    • Caption Samar Hassan cries seconds after US troops shot and killed her parents. Soldiers opened fire after the car driven by Samar's father failed to stop as it approached their dusk patrol. A US military statement said troops trying to halt the car used hand signals and fired warning shots before firing directly at the car, killing the driver and front-seat passenger. The town had only days before been the scene of a gun battle between US forces and local insurgents. As a defense against car bombs in many cities in Iraq, it had become standard practice for foot patrols to stop oncoming vehicles, particularly after dark. Five of Samar's siblings were in the car with her. All six survived, although her brother Racan was seriously wounded. US soldiers gave the children first aid before taking them to a nearby hospital.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Michael Appleton
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication New York Daily News
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 01-09-2005
    • Country USA
    • Place New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Caption A stranded Quintella Williams holds her nine-day-old baby girl, Akea, outside the superdome. Hurricane Katrina, the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded, hit the US Gulf Coast on August 29 causing severe destruction across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Levees protecting New Orleans were breached, flooding 80 percent of the city. Rescue efforts were delayed and disorganized. One-fifth of the population remained trapped in the city without power. Some 25,000 people made their way to the city's Superdome, which with insufficient food and water and with no air-conditioning or working toilets became increasingly uninhabitable.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Scott Nelson
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication World Picture Network
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 07-05-2005
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Baghdad
    • Caption Bystanders take cover from the blast and try to push unaffected cars away from the flames during a suicide car bombing. The car bomb, targeting a passing civilian contractor convoy, killed 22 people and wounded more than 35 in a crowded Tahrir Square. January elections in Iraq did not stem countrywide insurgency, which became increasingly sectarian. Predominantly Sunni insurgents targeted Shiite and Kurdish civilians in suicide bombings.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Vincent Laforet
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The New York Times
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 03-09-2005
    • Country USA
    • Place New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Caption Smoke rises over the downtown area after Hurricane Katrina. When Katrina made landfall on August 29 it took 1,836 lives and caused over US$ 75 billion damage, making it the deadliest hurricane for nearly a century and the most expensive natural disaster in US history. More than 1.5 million people were displaced in what became an humanitarian crisis on a scale not experienced in the US since the Great Depression in 1930s. Katrina also caused a political storm, as the chaotic reaction to the catastrophe highlighted inadequate planning and an absence of cooperation between local, state and federal bodies. President Bush, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Homeland Security, Louisiana's governor, as well as the New Orleans police force and mayor's office all came in for considerable criticism.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer David Guttenfelder
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category General News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 30-10-2005
    • Place Muzaffarabad, Kashmir
    • Caption Sabir Hussein Shah holds his son Zeeshan (9), who is being treated after having his arm amputated in a field hospital. The regional capital was close to the epicenter of an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, which had shaken the area three weeks previously. Around 70 percent of the city's buildings were destroyed. It was estimated that more than half of those injured throughout the region were children, crushed in their classrooms and homes.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer David Butow
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Redux Pictures for U.S. News & World Report
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 10-01-2005
    • Country Indonesia
    • Place Aceh
    • Caption The province of Aceh was one of the areas worst affected by the tsunami that followed a massive undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004. Over 70 percent of the inhabitants of some coastal villages in Aceh lost their lives. In Indonesia as a whole, more than 130,000 people were killed, and over 500,000 made homeless. Aid agencies faced almost insurmountable logistical problems in their efforts to reach those affected over washed-out roads and bridges.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Todd Heisler
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Rocky Mountain News / Polaris Images
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 27-08-2005
    • Country USA
    • Place Reno, Nevada
    • Caption Major Steve Beck prepares for the final inspection of 2nd Lt. James J. Cathey's body. Since the start of the Iraq War, Marines based at Buckley Air Force base in Colorado have honored the memory of 16 fallen comrades, and had the difficult duty of helping the families to bear their loss.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer John Mabanglo
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication European Pressphoto Agency
    • Category Sports Action
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 22-07-2005
    • Country Canada
    • Place Montreal
    • Caption Chelsea Davis (US) strikes her face on the diving board while attempting an inward two-and-a-half somersault in the preliminary round of the women's three-meter springboard competition at the FINA World Championships. She required three stitches but otherwise sustained no serious injury. The championships showcase five disciplines: water polo, open water swimming, diving, swimming and synchronized swimming.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Donald Miralle Jr.
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Getty Images
    • Category Sports Action stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 26-06-2005
    • Country USA
    • Place Santa Clara, California
    • Caption Sports Portfolio: World-record holder Aaron Peirsol streamlines off the wall after the 200m backstroke preliminary heats during the Santa Clara Grand Prix. Peirsol did not qualify for the finals, but went on to break his own record two weeks later at the World Championships.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer David Guttenfelder
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Sports Features
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 26-02-2005
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Kabul
    • Caption Boys play soccer inside an empty swimming pool dating from the Soviet occupation. The hilltop pool was damaged by shelling during the country's civil war and is now a favorite place for youth to congregate and play games.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer David Maialetti
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Philadelphia Daily News
    • Category Sports Feature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 14-09-2005
    • Country USA
    • Place Philadelphia, PA
    • Caption The Philly Roller Girls formed their all-girl, skater-owned and operated roller derby league in March. Their premier exhibition brought roller derby back to Philadelphia for the first time in 30 years. Roller derby is a team sports entertainment based on formation roller-skating around a track. It is very much a contact sport, as team members crash into walls and get into fights. The girls flaunt their tattoos and bruises, and have names like Darth Hater and Violet Temper.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Christopher Capozziello
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Time
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 2004
    • Country USA
    • Caption Mary Ann Nilan shaved her head on her 40th birthday, before chemotherapy, as she didn't want to lose her hair bit by bit. Mary Ann was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 39. She asked a photographer to record the process of her chemotherapy, double mastectomy and reconstruction implant surgery. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and the second leading cause of cancer death in women. In 2005 over 41,000 died from the disease in the US alone, but earlier diagnosis and improved treatment would appear to be driving death rates down.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Lucian Read
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication World Picture Network
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 22-10-2005
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Haditha
    • Caption Lance Corporal Stephen Parker (20) of Athens, Texas. The Pentagon boosted the number of US troops in Iraq to 150,000 in the run up to Iraqi national elections in January, the highest level since the US-led occupation began. Most of the increase in troop count came from extended deployment of units already on the ground. Parker is a member of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines - an infantry company in the Marine Corps that was serving its third deployment in Iraq.
    • Year 2005
    • Photographer Michael S. Wirtz
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Philadelphia Inquirer
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 11-02-2005
    • Country USA
    • Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Caption An elderly woman takes a closer look at a 'Mae West Lips Sofa' and a 'Lobster Telephone' at the Salvador Dalí exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition had its first tour at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 2004 to mark the centenary of the artist's birth. It was the first major retrospective of Dalí's work since his death in 1989. Dalí's creative life as a painter, writer, object-maker, designer of ballets and exhibitions, filmmaker, theorist and publicist spanned seven decades, though he is perhaps best-known for the surrealist paintings and objects made largely in the 1920s and 1930s.
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