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    • Year 1985
    • Photographer David Turnley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Detroit Free Press
    • Category Oskar Barnack Award
    • Prize Individual awards
    • Date 1985
    • Country South Africa
    • Place Cape Town
    • Caption Student Matthew Pearce (16) waits for a train home from his private school, watching black domestic workers cross a railway platform on their way back to their township.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer David B. Parker
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Yuba-Sutter Appeal-Democrat
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-05-1985
    • Country USA
    • Place Yuba City, Marysville, California
    • Caption Shannon Jones (7) is rescued. After holding his four children hostage for six hours because their mother had left him, Patrick Jones could be arrested without bloodshed.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Carol Guzy
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Miami Herald
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-11-1985
    • Country Colombia
    • Place Armero
    • Caption An arm protrudes through the mud. When volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted on November 13, it sent a tidal wave of mud, ashes and rocks smashing down the town of Armero. It left an estimated 25,000 people dead, 22,000 homeless and more than 60,000 acres of farmland ruined.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Larry Downing
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Newsweek
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Switzerland
    • Place Geneva
    • Caption US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov shake hands.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Eric Luse
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication San Francisco Chronicle
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country USA
    • Place San Fransisco
    • Caption Danh Kim Lieu (15) clutches a portrait of her mother. Both her parents were found with their throats slashed in their home. Police investigators believe the Vietnamese parents of five were involved in international money smuggling.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer James Nachtwey
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Nicaragua
    • Caption Nicaragua spends 50 per cent of its GNP on the war effort.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Larry C. Price
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Philadelphia Inquirer
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Ethiopia
    • Caption The Bati refugee camp. The spiral of drought, poverty, disease and starvation forces many to live in camps like this one. While tents provide shelter for the night, the daylight hours are spent outdoors.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Carol Guzy
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Miami Herald
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Ethiopia
    • Place Alamata
    • Caption A father and his son try to keep warm in the morning chill as they queue for food at a refugee camp. The boy's mother had died of starvation.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Mark S. Wexler
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication A Day in the Life / Collins
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Japan
    • Caption Young sumo wrestlers show signs of boredom as they await their turn.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Eddie Adams
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication A Day in the Life / Collins
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Caption Japanese calligrapher Aikawa-Cho.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Neal Ulevich
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country China
    • Place Peking
    • Caption A four-year-old participant at a piano contest.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Scott J. Applewhite
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country USA
    • Place Annapolis, Maryland
    • Caption Naval academy graduate Eric Olsen of California is presented his diploma by President Reagan.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer James A. Sugar
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country USA
    • Place Yellowstone Park, Wyoming
    • Caption A herd of bison grazes at dawn. Today the mighty American bison needs protection in order to survive.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer John Launois
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Caption A stork, recognizable by its size and striking black and white feathers. Storks often build their nests on chimney-pots and church steeples.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Mark S. Wexler
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication A Day in the Life / Collins
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Japan
    • Caption A research team at Jujin Hospital tests the effects of cosmetics on the human face. To protect themselves against harmful substances they are dressed in aluminum-covered uniforms and masks.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Anthony Suau
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic / Black Star
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-11-1985
    • Country Colombia
    • Place Armero
    • Caption The eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano caused a massive avalanche of mud. Residents were notified not to be alarmed, but within minutes the town virtually disappeared and over 23,000 died. www.archive.anthonysuau.com
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Mary Ellen Mark
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Life / Time
    • Category News Features stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Ethiopia
    • Caption Korem camp. Famine in Ethiopia continues to take its toll.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer James L. Stanfield
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category News Features stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Vatican City
    • Caption Easter. As a sovereign state within the city of Rome, Vatican City was only created in 1929, but the Holy See, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has endured longer than any other Western office. Combining the spiritual guidance and temporal management of the world's largest congregation, Pope John Paul II is monarch of Vatican City and Bishop of Rome.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer David Turnley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Detroit Free Press / Black Star / Life
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country South Africa
    • Caption Bishop Desmond Tutu. In the face of official entrenchment in defense of the system of apartheid, which claimed hundreds of victims in 1985, Bishop Tutu continues the peace-making efforts that brought him the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Chuck Fishman
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Time
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country USA
    • Place New York City
    • Caption Vasile Jurca (38), his pregnant wife Ana (39) and their children from Romania plan to settle in Fullerton, California. Half a million new immigrants set foot on American soil at J.F.K. Airport every year. They come mostly not from the Old World, but from the Third World. Together, Mexico and the Philippines account for 100,000 legal immigrants a year.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Mark S. Wexler
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication A Day in the Life / Collins
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Japan
    • Caption Sumo wrestlers; they face defeat as soon as any part of their body except the soles of their feet touches the ground, or if they fail to keep within the circle.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Søren Rasmussen
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Sipa Press
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Place Himalayas
    • Caption Fertile terraces, a village and some pack-horses may be the only rare reminders of human presence in the vastness of the Himalayas.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer David Turnley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Detroit Free Press
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country South Africa
    • Place Cape Town
    • Caption Student Matthew Pearce (16) waits for a train home from his private school, watching black domestic workers cross a railway platform on their way back to their township.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Jodi Cobb
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication A Day in the Life / Collins
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Country Japan
    • Caption The life of a geisha is preoccupied with stylized beauty. She spends hours applying make-up and dressing in order to become the perfect hostess at some businessmen's table.
    • Year 1985
    • Photographer Fred Ward
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1985
    • Caption Hazardous waste, the lethal by-product of industry at Dow Chemical Company.
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