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  1. 2001

    Contest facts
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Marco Di Lauro
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 13-12-2001
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Kabul
    • Caption Maryam (9) covers herself with a scarf after leaving the damaged house where she found shelter. To survive, she collects wood and plastic to sell at a market. In Kabul, years of warfare forced many residents to flee. With the city in ruins, those that remained continued a struggle to survive. In 2001, American air strikes weakened the grip of the ruling Taliban regime, and by November, opposing Northern Alliance troops captured Kabul.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Ziyah Gafic
    • Nationality Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Organization / Publication Grazia Neri
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-04-2001
    • Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Place Gorazde
    • Caption Children play in the suburbs of Gorazde, a city encircled by Serb military forces for three years. In the Bosnian civil war of 1992-1995, Gorazde was the last remaining United Nations safe area in eastern Bosnia, yet it was repeatedly attacked. Since then, the photographer has observed the war's impact on his family, and others who came to the city for safety.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Carlos Puma
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Press-Enterprise
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 10-09-2001
    • Country USA
    • Place Lake Perris, California
    • Caption Juan Carlos Valdez runs for the fence at a jaripeo, a Mexican rodeo. A popular event deriving from Northern Mexico, the jaripeo is a test of courage and skill for the men who ride the bucking bulls. At the Lake Perris Fairgrounds rodeo, Valdez's job was to distract the beast when it threw off riders. Events took a dangerous turn, but he narrowly escaped the charging bull.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Craig Golding
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 03-02-2001
    • Country Australia
    • Place Wanda Beach, Sydney
    • Caption At beaches along the coastline, surf lifesavers participate in tough physical competitions to develop their skills. Surf Lifesaving Australia is one of the world's largest volunteer organizations, with more than 100,000 members. From September to April, lifesavers complete a required number of hours on patrol, before competing on the sand and in the sea. At club carnivals, men and women test their stamina in rescue and resuscitation events.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Christian Keenan
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 2001
    • Country China
    • Place Kashgar
    • Caption In a popular local custom, young couples like to be photographed at the Id Kah mosque. The Uygur people, who form the majority in the Injiang province, follow the Muslim faith. Located in the far west, Kashgar was once a Silk Road oasis, and its mosque is the nation's largest.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Shobha
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication Contrasto / Focus
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-06-2001
    • Country Senegal
    • Place Dakar
    • Caption An explosion of ideas has made Dakar Africa's fashion capital. About 30 ambitious young designers develop their own personal styles outside the world's better-known fashion centers. An international fashion week takes place at the same time as the annual Dakar Carnival, leading to some unexpected sights.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Martin Sasse
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Laif Photos & Reportagen
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 09-07-2001
    • Country Thailand
    • Place Bangkok
    • Caption Women wait for cosmetic eyelid surgery at Yanhee Hospital. Many young women in Thailand strive for a popular Eurasian look.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Christoph Gerigk
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Franck Goddio / Hilti Foundation
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-05-2001
    • Country Egypt
    • Place Abu Qîr Bay
    • Caption Divers examine a colossal statue of a Pharaoh dated between 6th and 4th century BC. Here at the site of the ancient city of Herakleion, off the coast if Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea, archeologists search for antiquities preserved in the deep.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Jim Lavrakas
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Anchorage Daily News for Sports Illustrated
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 22-01-2001
    • Country USA
    • Place Anchorage, Alaska
    • Caption A rainbow trout peers from the gullet of a northern pike. The bigger fish swallowed the tiny trout alive in an aquarium, in a demonstration designed to educate the public about the pike's predatory nature. Alaska's Fish and Game Department suspected pike had been illegally introduced into the city's popular fishing lakes, far from its native waters. Once established, the voracious pike eat trout and salmon stocks sought by local anglers.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer József L. Szentpéteri
    • Nationality Hungary
    • Organization / Publication Natura-Foto B.T.
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-06-2001
    • Country Hungary
    • Place Tisza River
    • Caption Emerging from the Tisza River, the hatched Long-tailed Mayfly has just a few hours in which to fly, mate and die. Over a few days, larvae that lay for three years on the bottom of the river rise to the surface within an hour of each other. Millions of larvae cloud the water, before hatching into large winged mayflies. They then swarm in a dense group, searching for partners, and laying eggs - but also become food for the river's other creatures. An endangered species, the mayfly is at risk from fishermen seeking bait, and polluted waters.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Markus Jokela
    • Nationality Finland
    • Organization / Publication Helsingin Sanomat
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-09-2001
    • Country DR Congo
    • Place Kinshasa
    • Caption With basketball star Dikembe Mutombo due to arrive, young fans race to find the best seats. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mutombo has become one of the US's most successful sportsmen. He maintained links with his homeland by establishing an aid foundation to improve health and living conditions. On a trip home to open a hospital bearing his mother's name, he received a hero's welcome.
    • Year 2001
    • Photographer Francesco Zizola
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication Contrasto for Max
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-03-1999
    • Country Sudan
    • Caption In the mountains of central Sudan, the Nuba people struggle to preserve a culture under threat. The Nuba have lived in the inaccessible and remote region for hundreds of years. However, their numbers are dwindling, as fierce fighting between government troops and the Sudan People's Liberation Army forces thousands to flee, moving to urban centers for food and shelter. Displaced, or forced to hide in caves, they also face hostility from the fundamentalist Muslim government who has declared Nuba Mountain Islam to be heretical.

  14. 2000

    Contest facts
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Alan Diaz
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 22-04-2000
    • Country USA
    • Place Miami
    • Caption Cuban Elian Gonzalez (6) is seized by US federal agents during a dawn raid on his relatives' home in Little Havana. Elian was found off the coast of Florida in November 1999, after the boat carrying him from Cuba sank, killing his mother and ten others. The US Immigration and Naturalization Service ruled that he should return to his father in Cuba, but a Florida family court granted Elian's great uncle temporary custody and a legal battle followed. The dispute sparked mass demonstrations and propaganda campaigns both in Cuba and among anti-Castro Cuban Americans. Elian's father came to the US in early April, and federal agents took custody of the boy two weeks later. Further lawsuits prevented them from returning to Cuba until the end of June.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Shafiqul Alam Kiron
    • Nationality Bangladesh
    • Organization / Publication Map Photo Agency
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 14-03-2000
    • Country Bangladesh
    • Place Dhaka
    • Caption Nasrin Sultana Dulali worked as a nurse in a private clinic. She refused the advances of ward assistant Haider, who was later sacked for misconduct. After work one evening, Dulali had acid thrown at her. People alerted by Dulali's screams said they caught Haider red-handed. They tied him to a lamppost, beat him and handed him over to police. Haider was apparently burnt by his own acid when throwing it. He confessed to the photographer, but later denied involvement to the police. Dulali had to wait for two hours before being taken to hospital, where she died 32 hours later.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Amit Shabi
    • Nationality Israel
    • Organization / Publication Reuters
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 13-10-2000
    • Country Israel
    • Place Jerusalem
    • Caption An Israeli border policeman argues with a Palestinian in the Old City of Jerusalem. The man had been refused entry to the al-Aqsa mosque for Friday prayers during Ramadan. Israeli security forces prevented Palestinian men under the age of 45 from attending prayers following unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Karel Prinsloo
    • Nationality Namibia
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press for Sunday Times
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 22-02-2000
    • Country Mozambique
    • Caption A man helps his wife across a river near ai-ai, north of the capital Maputo, past a bus that was swept away when a bridge collapsed. In January a cyclone hit Mozambique, causing water levels to rise six meters in 24 hours. Continuing rains led to a flood that was the worst to hit the area in thirty years. A quarter of arable land was lost, and damage was estimated at US $100 million. Hundreds of people who had taken refuge on a high bridge near ai-ai, north of the capital Maputo, were stranded when waters rose overnight.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Paul Lowe
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for The Independent on Sunday
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-05-2000
    • Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Caption Clothes from an exhumed grave are laid out in a village. Later, the garments would be shown to friends and family for clues as to the identity of the owner, a victim of ethnic cleansing. Eighteen people from this village were killed during a Serb raid in 1992. The Bosnian commission for missing persons is carrying out many such investigations to identify remains, but there are still thousands missing following the years of conflict.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Jan Dago
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-06-2000
    • Country Sierra Leone
    • Place Freetown
    • Caption The civil war between government and rebel forces in Sierra Leone continues to disrupt the country's economy, and has led to internal displacement of the population. As rebels looted and burned down country villages, many people fled to the capital Freetown.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Tim Georgeson
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Cosmos for World Vision
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 10-02-2000
    • Country Yugoslavia
    • Place Montenegro
    • Caption The Shola family stands outside their temporary home in the Konik refugee camp, near Podgorica. Together with most other Roma, the family were forced out of Kosovo in mid 1999, when ethnic Albanians were returning. The Kosovo Roma had been accused of siding with the Serbs. The wave of anti-gypsy violence in Kosovo was the most severe since the holocaust of the Second World War, and thousands were displaced. By March there were around 8,000 Roma estimated to be living in Montenegro. Western European countries generally gave them only temporary protection rather than full refugee status.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Ziyah Gafic
    • Nationality Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 2000
    • Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Place Lukomir
    • Caption One of the most influential men in the village with his wife and their family photo. High on the Bjelasnica mountain, at the edge of a ravine, the hamlet has been untouched by any of the wars of the 20th century. There is no electricity or running water, and the 16 inhabitants live on what they can produce. The village is often under heavy snow and is isolated for much of the year. Most of the young people have left. Nearly everyone is over 60.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Dale Omori
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Plain Dealer
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 22-04-2000
    • Country USA
    • Place Cleveland, Ohio
    • Caption A young fan gets an up-close look at a Cleveland Lumberjacks ice-hockey player in the opening stages of a playoff game. The minor league team originated in the lumberjacking town of Muskegon, Michigan, but kept their nickname when they relocated to Cleveland in 1992.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Seamus Murphy
    • Nationality Ireland
    • Organization / Publication Corbis Saba for Independent Magazine
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-05-2000
    • Country Sierra Leone
    • Place Freetown
    • Caption An athlete runs up the terraces of the national stadium. Athletes of the Sierra Leone Olympic squad work to qualify for the Sydney Games. Sierra Leone first attended the Olympics in 1968, but is yet to win any medals. Many of the hopefuls trained and slept in the national stadium in Freetown, with only one cold-water tap and no electricity.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Jordis Antonia Schlösser
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Ostkreuz for Merian
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-03-2000
    • Country Cuba
    • Place Mayari
    • Caption A girl prepares to have her portrait taken in celebration of her 15th birthday. 'La fiesta del quince' traditionally marks a girl's initiation into womanhood. Her family will go to great lengths to ensure that she has a glamorous and memorable day.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Christien Jaspars
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Panos Pictures
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-06-1999
    • Country Mali
    • Place Djenné
    • Caption During the annual restoration festival, women converge on the mosque carrying water. The great mosque of Djenné is considered a masterpiece of traditional adobe architecture. Djenné itself is one of the oldest towns in Africa, and has been on UNESCO's World Heritage list since 1988. The re-plastering of the mosque is an annual event. Each year during the rainy season the thin outer layer is washed away, and has to be replaced to protect the building from deterioration.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer David White
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Katz Pictures
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 14-10-2000
    • Country Russia
    • Caption Trainee cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov gets ready to climb into his space suit at Star City cosmonaut training center, just outside Moscow. The undersuit he is wearing has a complex network of water pipes sewn into it that will help regulate his body temperature when he is in space.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Simon Norfolk
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication for The Independent Magazine
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 06-06-2000
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Cheshire
    • Caption Radio telescopes are some of the most sensitive scientific instruments known to man, yet they are also among the largest. The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Obsevatory in northern England is the oldest such telescope in the world, and the place where radio astronomy was invented. Some 3,500 tons of steel support a dish 76m in diameter, making an instrument that is more powerful than the famous Hubble telescope. Without the annual application of 5,200 liters of weatherproof paint, the telescope on the exposed Cheshire Plain would rust away. Scaffolding cannot be used, as the telescope remains operative at night after daytime maintenance work. Instead, specially trained painters use ropes and harnesses to do the job.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Jacqueline Mia Foster
    • Nationality USA
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 13-08-2000
    • Country Russia
    • Place Noril'sk
    • Caption Workers sun themselves on a slag heap in this Russian industrial town, north of the Arctic Circle. Built in the 1930s, Noril'sk has little vegetation, and toxic gases from its industries pollute the countryside for miles around. The workers are from Dazekstan, a republic far south on the Caspian Sea. Here their beach comprises waste products from the smelting of copper, nickel and cobalt.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Michel Denis-Huot
    • Nationality France
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-01-1992
    • Country Kenya
    • Place Tsavo
    • Caption A Yellow Baboon eating grains. Over the past decade it has become increasingly apparent to zoologists that not all primates are purely herbivorous. Baboons are skilled animal hunters, but are mainly opportunists, attacking vulnerable younger animals and stealing the prey of other predators. Whether or not a baboon eats meat appears to depend on the troop it is with.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Ed Kashi
    • Nationality USA
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 06-11-2000
    • Country USA
    • Place West Virginia
    • Caption Maine Peters (90) dies in her farmhouse after a long battle with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. She is attended by her husband Arden and Warren DeWitt, a close friend who shares the house and helps care for the elderly couple. Her son and daughter-in-law have come from Los Angeles. Maine was a patient of the Hospice Care Corporation, which helps people to die at home. Emphasis is put on comfort not remedy, on pain management rather than medical prolongation of life.
    • Year 2000
    • Photographer Bruno Stevens
    • Nationality Belgium
    • Organization / Publication for Paris Match
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-08-2000
    • Country Russia
    • Place Grozny, Chechnya
    • Caption A Russian soldier patrols the streets. By August conditions in Grozny were miserable and the population had halved. Food was hard to come by. The remaining residents, mostly women and children, attempted a return to ordinary life with no gas, electricity or running water. Distribution systems had collapsed, and finding food required disproportionate effort. People made risky trips to nearby villages and the neighboring republic of Ingushetia for provisions, and as winter approached the situation became critical. Russian soldiers kept up constant surveillance by day, but some rebel fighters had returned and moved through the city at night.

  33. 1999

    Contest facts
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Afrim Hajrullahu
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images for U.S. News & World Report
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 31-03-1999
    • Country Yugoslavia
    • Place Priština, Kosovo
    • Caption Kosovo Albanians, forced from their homes are marched to the train station by plainclothes Serbian police in unmarked cars. The photographer and his family were part of the evacuation, and were eventually taken to Macedonia. The film was smuggled first out of Kosovo and then out of the refugee camp.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Neil Libbert
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 30-04-1999
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place London
    • Caption Early in the evening a nail bomb exploded in The Admiral Duncan gay pub in Soho. Three people died and up to 70 were injured. It was the third such bombing in less than two weeks. Earlier bombs had gone off in predominantly black and Bengali areas of the city. Police arrested and charged a 22-year-old man early on May 1. They reported that the bomber was acting alone, and was not affiliated to any of the extremist right-wing groups that had claimed responsibility for the bombings. Later, the man admitted causing the explosions.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer David W. Smith
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication Taiwan News / Corbis Sygma for U.S. News & World Report
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 22-09-1999
    • Country China
    • Place Taipei, Taiwan
    • Caption Rescue personnel working with equipment usually used for transporting building material, free an injured woman trapped for hours in the Tunghsing Building after an earthquake. The quake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck early on Tuesday September 21, while many people were still asleep. Over 2,000 people died, tens of thousands were left homeless, and thousands of buildings were toppled in what was the most powerful earthquake to hit the island in a century.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Ilkka Uimonen
    • Nationality Finland
    • Organization / Publication Corbis Sygma for Newsweek
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1999
    • Place East Timor
    • Caption At the end of August a referendum was held which resulted in an 80 per cent vote for independence from Indonesia. Tension escalated and violence intensified after results were announced, as pro-Indonesian militia went on a rampage, killing independence supporters and setting fire to buildings. Eventually the UN intervened, sending in an Australian peace-keeping force on September 20.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Robert Knoth
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Hollandse Hoogte for Metro
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1999
    • Country Angola
    • Place Caála
    • Caption Refugees shelter at a camp following renewed hostilities. The civil war between Unita resistance forces led by Jonas Savimbi, and the governing MPLA under President Eduardo dos Santos has gone on almost continuously since independence in 1975. Landmines make farming dangerous and villages have been burned. More than a million Angolans have been made homeless since the collapse of peace agreements and renewed fighting at the end of 1998. Many live in abandoned factories, railway stations and makeshift camps in the cities.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Dean Sewell
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Bulletin Magazine
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-06-1999
    • Place Dili, East Timor
    • Caption A masked member of the Aitarak militia looks down from the back of a lorry in the capital. Violence erupted in East Timor following the Indonesian president's announcement in April that a referendum would be held on the question of the island's independence. Pro-Indonesian militia groups clashed with supporters of independence in an attempt to force a 'No' vote.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Tim Georgeson
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Propaganda Pictures for World Vision / Rolling Stone
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1999
    • Country Azerbaijan
    • Caption Gulhar Hasanova has lived for the past seven years, together with 10,000 other Azerbaijanis, in a camp made up of old metal railway carriages in Imishli. The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, begun in 1993, has left thousands of people displaced. Gulhar's former home village is occupied by Armenian forces. Gulhar was born around 1917. Her first husband and her brother were killed in the Second World War. Her second husband and two of her three children have died in Imishli.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Philippe Gontier
    • Nationality France
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Caption Pierre Boulez works on the score of Explosante Fie, a homage to Stravinsky. French composer and conductor Boulez focuses his activities on contemporary and modern music. He is considered one of the best interpreters of the Vienna School - Schönberg, Berg and Webern - and is deeply involved in such cornerstones of the contemporary music world as the Festival of New Music in Darmstadt, Germany, and the IRCAM institute in Paris. Boulez is also at the center of the involvement of electronics in new music, and is president of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, a group of musicians whose aim is virtuoso interpretation of modern music.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Bruno Fablet
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication L'Equipe
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1999
    • Country Mauritania
    • Caption Cars streak across the desert on the Bîr Mogreïn/Atâr leg of the Paris-Dakar Rally, which started in Granada, Spain. The fifth leg of the race begins with a mass start on a wide piste, and covers 625km. The rally was won by the Frenchman Jean Louis Schlesser with co-driver Philippe Monnet.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Tim Hetherington
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Panos Pictures
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country Liberia
    • Caption Football provides some relief, focus and stability to children traumatized by the civil war. The war lasted seven years, leaving a broken economy and continued skirmishes in the north of the country. Thousands of children fought in the war. Teams like the Millennium Stars, made up of former child-combatants, help children to develop an alternative sense of pride, in sports skill rather than in violence.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer John Peter Hogg
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication The Sunday Independent
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1999
    • Country South Africa
    • Place Johannesburg
    • Caption Nelisiswe Xaba marks her footsteps by sprinkling flour over her feet as she moves about the stage in a dance by Robyn Orlin at the Dance Umbrella festival. Dance Umbrella is a month-long annual event, now in its twelfth year, that showcases contemporary dance from the region, as well as from abroad.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Isabel Muñoz
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country China
    • Place Henan province
    • Caption At the Shaolin temple men practice a particular form of wushu, war art. The 18 basic positions of what some call Shaolin Kung Fu are inspired by the movement and agility of animals. According to legend, over 1,500 years ago, the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma introduced Indian principles of meditation and yogic calisthenics to the Shaolin monks' own tradition, to help them endure the physical demands of long periods of meditation. Over the centuries, the men of the Shaolin temple added skills from different martial arts to Bodhidharma's original system, and became renowned as warrior-monks.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Nicole Ottawa
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Eye of Science for Capital
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1999
    • Caption A micro-submarine travels through a human artery. The submarine was made by a micro technology firm in Duisburg, Germany, using a technique by which three-dimensional objects can be created directly from a computer program, by means of laser beams. Equipped with appropriate instruments, such submarines will in future be able to detect defects in internal organs.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Joseph McNally
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Caption Observatories around the world.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Tomasz Gudzowaty
    • Nationality Poland
    • Organization / Publication Wprost
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1999
    • Country Kenya
    • Place Mara river
    • Caption Wildebeest cross the river. Each year, wildebeest migrate from the south Serengeti in Tanzania to Masai Mara in Kenya, in search of fresh grazing grounds. Along the way they are an easy target for predators. Some 1.5 million animals made the journey in 1999, in the biggest migration for 25 years.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Claudine Doury
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country Russia
    • Place Siberia
    • Caption Members of the 34,000-strong Nenets ethnic group lead a nomadic life on the Yamal Peninsula. They speak a Samoyedic language, have shamanist traditions, and live in tents called chum, which dismantle and transport easily. It takes 64 reindeer hides to make a chum, which becomes home to an extended family. The Nenets' life revolves around raising reindeer. Each year the children go away to boarding school, where they stay for eight months. Despite the modern comforts they find there, most children choose to come back to the traditional way of life after school.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Tom Pilston
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication The Independent
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1999
    • Country Sudan
    • Caption Nuer and Dinka chiefs engage in mock hand-to-hand combat at the opening of a peace conference, in a purpose-built village. Decades of conflict between these two southern ethnic groups, further complicated by ongoing strife between north and south, has meant in the past that the population could not settle to grow its own food. Severe famine has followed. Many people walked for days to get to the peace talks, which were brokered by the New Sudanese Council of Churches.
    • Year 1999
    • Photographer Trent Parke
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Australian
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country Australia
    • Caption A land surrounded by water, with much of its population living along the coastline, Australia has a lively beach culture. A sunny climate and good surf add to the attraction.
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