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    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Hocine
    • Nationality Algeria
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category World Press Photo of the Year
    • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
    • Date 23-09-1997
    • Country Algeria
    • Place Algiers
    • Caption A woman cries outside the Zmirli Hospital, where the dead and wounded were taken after a massacre in Bentalha. Mass killings and bomb blasts dominated life since the army annulled the results of the 1992 elections, in which it appeared the Muslim fundamentalist party, FIS, would win. The conflict had claimed more than 60,000 lives in five years.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Susan Watts
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication New York Daily News
    • Category Children's Award
    • Prize Individual awards
    • Country USA
    • Place New York City
    • Caption Gloria (33) shooting up in a littered backyard, has been living on the streets of the Bron since her late teens. She needs ten shots of heroin a day and as many tricks to pay for them, making her both predator and prey. Gloria is one of 2,500 homeless, drug-addicted prostitutes in New York City.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Wendy Sue Lamm
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 09-04-1997
    • Place Hebron, West Bank
    • Caption As he hurls a stone at Israeli soldiers, a Palestinian man is shot. Israel's decision in March to build a new Jewish quarter in East Jerusalem sparked off riots in Bethlehem and Hebron and caused a dramatic deterioration in relations between Israel and the Arab world. The Arab League called for a renewed boycott of the Jewish state.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Anonymous
    • Nationality Algeria
    • Organization / Publication Sipa Press for Paris Match / Time
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 26-08-1997
    • Country Algeria
    • Place Frais-Vallon
    • Caption Following a pledge by the president that terrorism's final hour had struck and demonstrations which brought tens of thousands out onto the streets, more than 100 people were found murdered in Algeria. In the hills of the capital Algiers seven women and children - members of two families who had been kidnapped - were pulled from the village well. Their throats had been slashed and some of them had been decapitated.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Massimo Sciacca
    • Nationality Italy
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 17-03-1997
    • Country Albania
    • Place Prenjias
    • Caption Close to the Macedonian border, an alleged highway robber is forced to the ground and arrested by police. Lawlessness reigned in the small Balkan country when the hugely popular 'pyramid' investment funds collapsed. Many lost not only their savings, but their mortgaged homes and land as well
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Santiago Lyon
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country Albania
    • Caption When over half of Albania's population lost their high-risk investments at the beginning of the year, they turned their rage against the authorities. Particularly in the south, rebellious mobs attacked army barracks, police stations and shops to procure arms and other goods. At one point every civilian appeared to possess some kind of weapon. Individuals representing the government were often at the receiving end of their aggression.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu for Vrij Nederland
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-05-1997
    • Country Zaire
    • Caption As an open-topped train, loaded beyond capacity, made its way from Biaro refugee camp to Kisangani, alarm signals went unheeded and many people were crushed to death. When the train arrived in Kisangani, about 100 passengers had died. From Kisangani the refugees were airlifted back to Rwanda by the United Nations.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Silvia Izquierdo
    • Nationality Peru
    • Organization / Publication Reuters
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 22-04-1997
    • Country Peru
    • Place Lima
    • Caption On December 17, 1996 members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) dressed as waiters occupied the Japanese ambassador's residence where a reception was in progress. Most of the hostages they took were released in January, but negotiations dragged on for months. Finally, a minutely planned commando operation was carried out in which all 14 rebels and two commandos were killed. One hostage also perished; the remaining 71 were freed.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Francesco Zizola
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication Contrasto
    • Category General News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Iraq
    • Caption A patient at Sulaimanya Teaching Hospital suffers from serious burns after a bomb explosion near her home. Numbering 26.3 million, the Kurds constitute the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. Since the end of the first World War they have been scattered around different countries. In Iraq and Turkey, Kurds form almost a quarter of the population, with smaller minorities in Iran and Syria. In Iraq they achieved virtual autonomy, but this has been severely undermined by factional fighting between warlords.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Eric Luke
    • Nationality Ireland
    • Organization / Publication The Irish Times
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 13-09-1997
    • Country India
    • Place Calcutta
    • Caption The body of Mother Teresa is carried into a private courtyard during her state funeral. Born into an Albanian Catholic family as Agnes Bojahiu, the diminutive nun started working among Calcutta's poorest in the late 1940s and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. When she died at the age of 87, she had come to symbolize Christian charity. Today more than 4,000 nuns are working for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity at hundreds of relief centers all over the world.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Perry Kretz
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Stern
    • Category General News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 20-05-1997
    • Country Zaire
    • Caption Machine guns are retrieved from the swimming pool belonging to former president Mobutu's son Kongolo. On May 18, after a seven-month military campaign, Laurent Kabila's rebel forces captured the capital Kinshasa. They deposed Mobutu, who fled and died in Morocco a few months later. Kabila renamed the country the Democratic Republic of Congo. In his inauguration speech as president he promised elections in April 1999.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Brian Walski
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Boston Herald
    • Category General News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 06-09-1997
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place London
    • Caption Diana, Princess of Wales' brother, Earl Spencer, her sons William and Harry, and her e-husband Prince Charles watch as the hearse carrying her body leaves Westminster Abbey. A week after she had been killed in a controversial car crash in Paris the whole world joined the family in an emotional farewell. The princess was buried on an island at Althorp, her family's estate.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Gideon Mendel
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country South Africa
    • Place Kwazulu
    • Caption Women carry provisions home in the Hlabisa district. According to the World Health Organization, 30 million people have been infected by the HIV virus. Nearly two-thirds of them live in Africa, south of the Sahara desert. Educational initiatives play an important role in raising public awareness of HIV and Aids.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Francesco Zizola
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication Contrasto
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Iraq
    • Caption A patient at Sulaimanya Teaching Hospital suffers from serious burns after a bomb explosion near her home. Numbering 26.3 million, the Kurds constitute the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. Since the end of the first World War they have been scattered around different countries. In Iraq and Turkey Kurds form almost a quarter of the population, with smaller minorities in Iran and Syria. In Iraq, they achieved virtual autonomy, but this has been severely undermined by factional fighting between warlords.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Maciej Skawinski
    • Nationality Poland
    • Organization / Publication Rzeczpospolita Magazine
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Poland
    • Place Zelazno
    • Caption Evacuating from a flooded house. In July, Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic suffered the worst floods to hit the area this century. Over a period of two weeks more than 100 people perished. Cattle drowned, harvests were lost and thousands of homes, factories, roads and bridges were damaged or destroyed. The river Oder on the border between Germany and Poland rose four meters above its normal level.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Hocine
    • Nationality Algeria
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 23-09-1997
    • Country Algeria
    • Place Algiers
    • Caption A woman cries outside the Zmirli Hospital, where the dead and wounded were taken after a massacre in Bentalha. Mass killings and bomb blasts dominated life since the army annulled the results of the 1992 elections, in which it appeared the Muslim fundamentalist party, FIS, would win. The conflict had claimed more than 60,000 lives in five years.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Judah Passow
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers for Das Magazin
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Place Hebron
    • Caption Israeli soldiers come to the aid of an injured Palestinian outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Joachim Ladefoged
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Politiken
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Albania
    • Caption Faslli Veisllari was hit by a stray bullet in the town of Berat, where armed violence claimed more than 200 lives. Already Europe's poorest country, Albania was afflicted by economic and political turmoil at the beginning of 1997. For weeks, outbreaks of armed violence were the order of the day, particularly in the south. In January the police had been thrown out of the town of Vlore, but by April they gradually resumed their patrols. As negotiations to send a multinational peacekeeping force were being concluded, the situation started to calm down.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Joachim Ladefoged
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Politiken
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Albania
    • Caption Faslli Veisllari was hit by a stray bullet in the town of Berat, where armed violence claimed more than 200 lives. Already Europe's poorest country, Albania was afflicted by economic and political turmoil at the beginning of the year. For weeks, outbreaks of armed violence were the order of the day, particularly in the south. In January the police had been thrown out of the town of Vlore, but by April they gradually resumed their patrols. As negotiations to send a multinational peacekeeping force were being concluded, the situation started to calm down.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Judah Passow
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Place Hebron
    • Caption Ten years of intifada - the Palestinian uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza: A woman at the Central Market. At the time Israel had handed most of the town back to the Palestinians.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer David Modell
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Independent Photographers Group
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Caption The British general election on May 1 spelled the worst-ever defeat for the Conservative Party. With only 31 percent of the vote, Prime Minister John Major had little choice but to resign.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Michael S. Wirtz
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Philadelphia Inquirer
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Kabul
    • Caption A woman prepares to leave home. Dress conventions for women in Afghanistan were profoundly affected by the government takeover of 1996. When the strict Islamic Taliban movement came to power all women were required to cloak themselves in the burkas.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Peter Dammann
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Mare
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Russia
    • Place Kronstadt
    • Caption Sergei Kamynin, a cadet at St. Petersburg's new naval academy, aboard the cruiser Aurora, which played a key role in the October Revolution of 1917.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Carol Guzy
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Washington Post
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country USA
    • Place Berrien Springs, Michigan
    • Caption Muhammad Ali (56) reminiscing amidst boxing memorabilia at his farm, where he once trained for big fights. Ali come a long way since he established his reputation as the promising young boxer Cassius Clay. Though stricken with Parkinson's disease, he is actively involved with various humanitarian causes.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Antonin Kratochvil
    • Nationality Czech Republic
    • Organization / Publication Saba Press Photos for Detour
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Caption Sweet Willem. US actor Willem Dafoe. Having grown up in a large family in the American Midwest, Dafoe started his movie career in the notorious loss-maker Heaven's Gate. In 1986 he received an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor for the Vietnam film Platoon. His recent films included The English Patient and Speed 2.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Shobha
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication Contrasto
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Italy
    • Place Palermo, Sicily
    • Caption Sicilian noblewomen at the Piazzo Asmundo. A Sicilian herself, the photographer was allowed access to the splendid residences and private lives of Sicily's aristocracy, a world at once austere and surreal.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Tom Stoddart
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Independent Photographers Group
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Caption Tony Blair on the campaign trail: The general election, appropriately held on Europe's Labour Day, brought a landslide victory for Tony Blair's New Labour. With 45 percent of the vote the party scored its largest victory since 1945. Introducing a style of government he promised would be modern and dynamic, Blair waived traditional protocol and insisted that first names be used in his new cabinet.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Jed Jacobsohn
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Allsport
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 28-06-1997
    • Country USA
    • Place Las Vegas
    • Caption Evander Holyfield's ear after Mike Tyson bit off a chunk of it during the third round of a world heavyweight title fight, confirming his reputation as the enfant terrible of boxing. Tyson was disqualified, fined and suspended indefinitely. He also had to pay back his US$30 million fee. The damage to Holyfield's ear was surgically repaired.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Bill Frakes
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Sports Illustrated
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 03-08-1997
    • Country Greece
    • Place Athens
    • Caption US athlete Maurice Greene (23) sticks his tongue out at Canadian world record holder Donovan Bailey (left) as he crosses the finish line first in 9.86 seconds. Much taunting and challenging between the two title 100m candidates preceded the World Championships race.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Christopher Pillitz
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers for Stern
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Brazil
    • Caption Priests at the Santo Agostino seminary prepare for a game of football. The picture is part of a story on football being played in sometimes surprising locations all over Brazil.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Eric Mencher
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Philadelphia Inquirer
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country USA
    • Caption For ten scorching days the Anderson Monarchs, a Little League baseball team of African American 10- and 11-year-olds from South Philadelphia, toured the eastern United States. In an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of the Negro Leagues' barnstorming tours of the 1930s and '40s, they traveled over 3,000km in a cramped old bus. Between games and long bus rides, the boys played in motel pools and visited Minor League ball parks.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Aristide Economopoulos
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Jasper Herald
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country USA
    • Caption Bronco practice before the start of the rodeo competition outside Washington, DC. Gay rodeos enjoy increasing popularity in North America. They are action-packed events attracting crowds interested in both the social and sporting aspects.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Dudley M. Brooks
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Washington Post
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country USA
    • Caption The steadfast support of his father Henry and mother May enables Deion Robinson (12) to take part in the Silver Gloves boxing competition in Lennea, Kansas. Cheered on by his family, Deion made it through the preliminary rounds, but he was beaten in the semifinals.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Craig Golding
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-06-1997
    • Country Australia
    • Place Sydney
    • Caption A sumo wrestler lifts up a small boy as part of the entertainment before the matches. The Australian Grand Sumo Tournament brought together 36 of the world's top 40 sumo wrestlers to compete. On the second night Takanohana emerged the winner after defeating the only other wrestler boasting the rank of yokozuna (champion of champions), Akebono of Hawaii.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Jodi Bieber
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication The Independent
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country South Africa
    • Place Ennerdale
    • Caption In black townships ballroom dancing has caught the imagination of the young. At the dance academy, Paul Kgole, the country's only black ballroom judge, teaches his pupils to think of themselves as winners in both dance contests and life in general.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Harald Schmitt
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Stern
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country Vietnam
    • Place Ho Chi Minh City
    • Caption Members of the Ea Sola dance company rehearse at the conservatory. Vietnamese dancer and choreographer Ea Sola, who now lives in Paris, has made the inner conflict of her native country the theme for her production Il a été une fois (Once upon a time).
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Robert Polidori
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication Agence Planet for The New Yorker / Geo
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1997
    • Country USA
    • Place Los Angeles, California
    • Caption The room shown here (France, 1760-1775) is one of 14 dedicated to the decorative arts at the new Getty Center. Architect Richard Meier's creation, which overlooks both the city and the Pacific Ocean, has taken 13 years to build and cost a billion dollars. Covering 45 hectares, the center's Getty Collection strongly focuses on European painting and sculpture.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Vanessa Winship
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-04-1997
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Blackpool
    • Caption Two thousand young hopefuls from all over the world compete at the Junior Ballroom Dancing Festival. The splendid Tower Ballroom is the perfect backdrop for the event.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Jodi Bieber
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country South Africa
    • Place Daveyton
    • Caption Johnny Seotlolla (24) learnt to play the alto tuba at his local church. He is now studying the trumpet and is a member of the Gauteng band. In a township east of Johannesburg, Johnny Mekoa has established the Music Academy of Gauteng, where he teaches jazz music - along with dedication and discipline - to underprivileged black youth. The Music Academy of Gauteng is funded by donations. Gifts are also paying for the instruments, which are on loan to the students.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Joseph McNally
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Life
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country Russia
    • Place Moscow
    • Caption Members of the Bolshoi Ballet pose in different locations in Moscow as part of the celebrations marking the city's 850th anniversary.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Howard Schatz
    • Nationality USA
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Caption Dancer Shannon Chain of the American Ballet Theater.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Stephen Ferry
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Gamma for Life
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1997
    • Caption Dolly the sheep became the world's most controversial animal. Scientific history was written at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, which announced on February 22 that it had produced the first cloned mammal. Biologists took one mammary cell from an adult ewe and inserted it into a sheep's ovum, which divided and developed to become Dolly, carrier of an exact replica of her mother's DNA. The news sparked heated discussions about the ethics of cloning.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Marc Steinmetz
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication +49 photo for Focus
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Caption Initially designed to create detailed anatomical preparations for educational and medical purposes, plastinated bodies are now also exhibited in highly controversial shows such as this. 'Plastination' is a term coined by German anatomist Professor Gunther von Hagens for his method of preserving human bodies or parts of them. At the private institute which he founded to be free from restrictions, it takes Von Hagens and his team up to 800 hours to prepare a whole body by replacing all water and fat with silicone or other polymers. The corpses are obtained through the institute's own body donation program.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Oliver Meckes & Nicole Ottawa
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Eye of Science for Geo
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Caption Adult and juvenile specimens of 'Phthirus pubis' (pubic lice) hang on to two human hairs. They transfer to a new 'host' during sexual intercourse or when people share the same bed. Without a host, they die within 12 hours.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer George Steinmetz
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Caption IT is the most human of robots. Simple sensors which react to light, sound and movement enable it to mimic emotions. Without such stimuli its face looks sad. Visualizing the evolution of robotics, this story was shot in locations across the US and in Osaka, Japan.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Marc Steinmetz
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication +49 photo for Focus
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Caption Initially designed to create detailed anatomical preparations for educational and medical purposes, plastinated bodies are now also exhibited in highly controversial shows such as this one. 'Plastination' is a term coined by German anatomist Professor Gunther von Hagens for his method of preserving human bodies or parts of them. At the private institute which he founded to be free from restrictions, it takes Von Hagens and his team up to 800 hours to prepare a whole body by replacing all water and fat with silicone or other polymers. The corpses are obtained through the institute's own body donation program.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Jean-Michel Turpin
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country France
    • Place Clamart
    • Caption Medical staff attempts to save Elodie, who at birth weighed 470 grams after a 26-week pregnancy. In France between 35,000 and 40,000 babies are born prematurely every year. Some 9,000 of them are delivered up to three months early. At the Antoine Béclère Hospital Dr. Michel Dehan's highly specialized neonatal unit watches over them day and night, until they are strong enough to be taken out into the real world.
    • Year 1997
    • Photographer Alexander Tsiaras
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Life
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Caption Just a few years after Joseph Paul Jernigan's death sentence had been carried out, he started an electronic afterlife. The body he donated to science has been quartered, sliced and digitized for pictures like these. Jernigan's is the first human body to have been entirely translated into electronic data using the latest imaging technology, so that its multiple layers can be studied at any angle.
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