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  1. 2003

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    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Jean-Marc Bouju
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category World Press Photo of the Year
    • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
    • Date 31-03-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Caption An Iraqi man comforts his four-year-old son at a holding center for prisoners of war, in the base camp of the US Army 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf. The boy had become terrified when, according to orders, his father was hooded and handcuffed. A soldier later severed the plastic handcuffs so that the man could comfort his child. Hoods were placed over detainees' heads because they were quicker to apply than blindfolds. The military said the bags were used to disorient prisoners and protect their identities. It is not known what happened to the man or the boy.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Ahmed Jadallah
    • Nationality Palestinian Territories
    • Organization / Publication Reuters
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 06-03-2003
    • Place Gaza Strip
    • Caption Unidentified bodies lie on a street in Jabalya, the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Israeli tanks spearheaded a major raid on the camp in the night of March 5, after a suicide bomber had killed 15 people on a bus in Haifa, Israel the day before. At least 11 Palestinians were killed in the Jabalya attack and more than 140 were injured.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Atta Kenare
    • Nationality Iran
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 27-12-2003
    • Country Iran
    • Place Bam
    • Caption A father carries his two sons to be buried after the earthquake that leveled the ancient city of Bam in the early hours of December 26. The initial tremor lasted just 20 seconds, yet killed over 25,000 people, in some cases wiping out entire families. The heavy death toll was attributed to the fact that traditional mud-brick houses collapsed quickly, as people were sleeping. The dust created by the falling houses meant that there was little chance of air-pockets forming under the rubble, which might also have saved lives.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Kuni Takahashi
    • Nationality Japan
    • Organization / Publication Reflex News for Boston Herald
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-07-2003
    • Country Liberia
    • Place Monrovia
    • Caption A government militia fires during fight against rebel forces. Soldiers loyal to the Liberian government fire on rebel militia in a battle for control over a bridge giving access to the center of Monrovia. Fighting in the long, ongoing civil war has intensified this month, as rebels struggle for dominance of the capital. Several hundred people have been killed in street fighting and mortar attacks.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Tarmizy Harva
    • Nationality Indonesia
    • Organization / Publication Reuters
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 17-06-2003
    • Country Indonesia
    • Place Aceh
    • Caption A woman mourns a relative killed in civil conflict. Government forces have been battling the separatist Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, or GAM) for control of the oil and gas-rich area since 1976. An agreement signed in December 2002, offering autonomy in return for rebel disarmament, collapsed a few months later when it became clear that neither side was fulfilling its obligations. In May the army launched a major offensive against GAM rebels. Both sides claimed that the other was targeting civilians.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Chris Hondros
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Getty Images
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 20-07-2003
    • Country Liberia
    • Place Monrovia
    • Caption A Liberian militiaman loyal to the government exalts after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge in the capital. Government forces succeeded in driving back the rebels in fierce fighting around the edge of the city center.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Noël Quidu
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma for Newsweek
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 18-06-2003
    • Country Liberia
    • Place Klay Junction
    • Caption A fighter loyal to the government brandishes human bones in celebration of taking the strategic position of Klay Junction. Liberia has been wracked by on-off civil war since the 1980s. Following an uprising against the government led by Charles Taylor in 1989, the next decade saw occasional cease-fires, but each time fighting resumed after a matter of months. Increasing rebel activity in the north of the country followed Taylor's election victory in 1997. In March 2003, rebels had advanced to within 10km of the capital Monrovia, and by July fighting had intensified and government and rebel militia were battling for control of the city. After intervention of UN and US forces in August, rebels signed a peace accord and President Charles Taylor, in the meantime indicted on war-crimes charges, left the country.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer David Leeson
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Dallas Morning News
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-04-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Caption On March 17 the British ambassador to the United Nations announced that the diplomatic process regarding the situation in Iraq had ended, and US President George W. Bush gave Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave the country or face war. On March 20 the first American missiles hit Baghdad, and a few days later US and British ground troops advanced into Iraq from bases in Kuwait. By early April, the Americans had reached central Baghdad.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Ilkka Uimonen
    • Nationality Finland
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Newsweek
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 14-08-2003
    • Country USA
    • Place New York City
    • Caption Passengers while away time at Grand Central station. During the evening rush hour, the northeastern United States and parts of Canada were hit by a massive electricity failure. In New York, as in other major cities, thousands of people were trapped in metros and lifts, and chaos ensued as traffic lights went out. Many chose to walk home, others were stranded overnight yet the overall mood remained calm. The blackout, thought to have been caused by an overload due to hot weather, lasted nearly 18 hours.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Jerry Lampen
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Reuters
    • Category General News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 27-11-2003
    • Place Der Al Balah, Gaza Strip
    • Caption Manal Al Simiri, the wife of Palestinian Osama Al Simiri is comforted by relatives as her husband's body is taken from their home, near the Kfar Darom Jewish settlement. He was one of three men, all belonging to the same family, killed by Israeli soldiers as they fled in a car following a lengthy pursuit on foot. Israeli military officials said the soldiers had given chase after seeing a group of Palestinian militants approach a road used by soldiers and settlers.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Moises Saman
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Newsday
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 22-03-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Baghdad
    • Caption An Iraqi man suffering from severe burns recuperates in the Al-Yarmuk Teaching Hospital, two days after the onset of US bombing of the city in March. Immediately after the first attacks, the Iraqi Ministry of Information took all foreign journalists present in Baghdad on a tour of several hospitals in the city in order to demonstrate casualties, claiming that only civilian targets had been hit. The ministry set the toll at over 200 injured. Reports of a shortage of supplies and medical staff followed.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Stefan Zaklin
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication European Pressphoto Agency
    • Category General News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 30-10-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Tikrit
    • Caption A man detained by US soldiers kneels in his yard before being taken away for questioning. American forces had conducted a pre-dawn raid that targeted men suspected of planning and carrying out attacks on coalition forces. Although the army had moved quickly on Baghdad earlier in the year, encountering scant resistance - by October soldiers were finding it increasingly difficult to keep order, and dozens had been killed in bombings carried out by insurgents. By the end of the year more US soldiers had died as a result of guerilla activity than in the initial phase of the conflict, and the US-backed Interim Governing Council (IGC) unveiled plans for an accelerated transfer to Iraqi control.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Yuri Kozyrev
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Time
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 28-03-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Baghdad
    • Caption A local sheikh arrives to receive instructions on how to carry out guerilla war in the provinces. A long, ongoing stand-off with Iraq came to a head when a coalition of British and American forces attacked the country; the initial offensive comprised a pre-dawn bombing raid on Baghdad on March 20. This was followed by an advance of ground troops across the south of the country, and an extensive 'shock and awe' bombing campaign on the capital and other strategic cities. The Americans said they targeted sites identified as having military significance, or as possibly sheltering the Iraqi leader Sadam Hussein. By April 9, US forces had reached central Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's grip on the city was broken, but he and leading members of the ruling Baath Party had disappeared - the Iraqi leader would not be captured until December 14. The Americans abolished the Baath party and established an interim Governing Council (IGC), which received cautious backing from the UN Security Council.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Lookat Photos for NZZ / Newsweek / Greenpeace
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 2003
    • Place Qalqilya, West Bank
    • Caption The eight-meter-high section around the Palestinian town of Qalqilya (pop. 40,000) was conceived as a 'sniper wall' to prevent gun attacks against Israeli motorists, and has one checkpoint. In 2002 Israel began to construct a 700km-long barrier in the West Bank saying that it was designed to stop suicide bombers. Palestinians complained that the barrier was illegal and that its route cut off hundreds of farmers and traders from their land and means of economic survival.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Dario Mitidieri
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication Katz Pictures
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-05-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Baghdad
    • Caption A man examines photos of people who have disappeared. The pictures were found in secret files, photocopied and displayed. According to human rights groups, an estimated 300,000 people disappeared in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's rule. Some went missing in the 1980s, when Saddam ordered the detention and execution of thousands of communists, Shiite Muslims and rival members of his Baath Party. Most disappeared in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraqi Republican Guards suppressed twin revolts by Kurds in the north and Shiite Muslims in the south. The discovery of mass graves began soon after the overthrow of Saddam's regime in April 2003.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Jean-Marc Bouju
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 31-03-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Caption An Iraqi man comforts his four-year-old son at a holding center for prisoners of war, in the base camp of the US Army 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf. The boy had become terrified when, according to orders, his father was hooded and handcuffed. A US soldier later severed the plastic handcuffs so that the man could comfort his child. Hoods were placed over detainees' heads because they were quicker to apply than blindfolds. The military said the bags were used to disorient prisoners and protect their identities. It is not known what happened to the man or the boy.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Carolyn Cole
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Los Angeles Times Magazine
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 11-04-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Baghdad
    • Caption A family grieves as the bodies of three family members shot by US Marines in Baghdad on April 9 are brought home. Mohammed Khadim Hussein, his son Emad and another relative Hussein Ahmed Khadim were killed when the car Khadim Hussein was driving failed to stop upon a command given in English at a US checkpoint. The family didn't know about the shootings until a relative brought the car to the house with the bodies still inside. Soon after American entry into Baghdad, there was widespread looting in the capital and other cities. Security deteriorated and tensions rose as young soldiers at roadblocks found they had neither the language nor local awareness to deal with the situation they found themselves in.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Carolyn Cole
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Los Angeles Times Magazine
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 04-08-2003
    • Country Liberia
    • Caption Bodies are placed in a mass grave on the day that peacekeeping forces arrived. Civil conflict had wracked Liberia for more than a decade, claiming up to 250,000 lives, and leading to half a million internally displaced people and around 320,000 in exile. In August, Nigerian peacekeepers arrived, followed by US troops. President Charles Taylor left the country, and an interim administration was set up in October under Gyude Bryant. US troops later withdrew, and the UN launched a major peacekeeping mission, beginning to disarm former combatants.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Philip Blenkinsop
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu for Time
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 14-01-2003
    • Country Laos
    • Caption En-route to the secret camp of the Hmong with escorts. The Hmong ethnic minority sided with the United States army during the Vietnam War and follow-up conflicts in Laos and Cambodia. Members of a CIA-backed militia, they assisted downed US pilots and disrupted North Vietnamese supply routes. As the US government stopped its support for the Hmong after the war, a third of the Hmong population is thought to have left the country, those remaining suffering the consequences of their support for the Americans. Many were forced to migrate to areas where they were unable to carry out their traditional occupation of agriculture, and isolated pockets are reported to be fighting a low-level guerilla war against the Lao government. The leader of the aysomboune camp of Hmong, Moua Toua Ther, recorded his group as numbering 7,000 people in 1975. Today there are around 800 left.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Jan Grarup
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Politiken / Rapho
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-12-2003
    • Country Iran
    • Place Bam
    • Caption Two imams pray for the dead arriving at mass graves. On December 26, the ancient fortress city of Bam was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, with the loss of tens of thousands of lives. Around 85 per cent of the town's buildings were destroyed, leaving nearly the entire population homeless. Many spent freezing nights in tents provided by aid agencies, as rescue operations got underway. The UN and Red Cross appealed for a total of US$ 73 million to help the victims.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Erik Refner
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Rapho / Berlingske Tidende
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 10-06-2003
    • Country DR Congo
    • Place Bunia
    • Caption People attend a religious gathering close to the refugee camp. In May, a new wave of ethnic violence between Hema and Lendu militias hit the town of Bunia. The city, which once had 300,000 citizens, has experienced some of the most horrific atrocities of a conflict that has lasted nearly five years. An estimated 50,000 people from the region have been killed in the fighting and the rest have fled, leaving around just 10,000 survivors, mostly in and about UN buildings in the town.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Olivier Pin-Fat
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-08-2003
    • Country Burma (Myanmar)
    • Place Loi Dai Leng
    • Caption The Shan State Army (SSA)'s headquarters on the Thai border. The Shan people are the dominant ethnic group of an isolated and densely forested mountain region in northeast Burma. Running through the area is part of the Golden Triangle, where much of the world's opium and heroin is produced. Human rights groups have said that the Shan, along with other minorities, have been subject to forced labor and torture at the hands of the Burmese military. The SSA is waging armed insurrection against the Burmese military junta in the hope of Shan self-determination.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Tim Clayton
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Category Sports Action
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 20-11-2003
    • Country Australia
    • Place Sydney
    • Caption The head of French captain Yannick Bru peers out of the scrum during the third-place play-off match against New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup. New Zealand won the match 40-13.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Al Bello
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Getty Images
    • Category Sports Action
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-06-2003
    • Country USA
    • Place Atlantic City, New Jersey
    • Caption Undefeated newcomer Dominick Guinn knocks out former heavyweight contender Michael Grant in the seventh round of a fight.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Alexander Hassenstein
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Bongarts Sportfotografie
    • Category Sports Action
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-12-2003
    • Country Finland
    • Place Kuusamo
    • Caption Thomas Morgenstern (17) takes a dive at the Ski Jumping World Cup. The Austrian sports star escaped with relatively minor injuries.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Henry Agudelo & Jaime Pérez
    • Nationality Colombia
    • Organization / Publication El Colombiano
    • Category Sports Action stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-08-2003
    • Country Colombia
    • Place Medellín
    • Caption La corraleja, a version of traditional Spanish bullfighting, is extremely popular along the Atlantic coast of Colombia. The tradition goes back some 200 years. Bullfighting fiestas go on for up to seven days, with animals that can weigh over 500 kilograms. Contests last from late afternoon through to the early evening, and are divided into sessions of five to 30 minutes. Teams of three to five men, either on foot or mounted on horseback, attempt to exhaust the bulls, using banderillas (spiked sticks) bearing the team colors. Each team represents a region, village, or part of a town, and the members are local sports heroes. Some team members specialize in acrobatics, which adds to the spectacle. The session ends when the bulls are exhausted, which is decided by a referee who also tots up the number of banderillas remaining in the bull to allot each team a score. Bulls are then allowed out of the ring, to return to fight the following day. At the end of the fiesta, cumulative team scores are tallied, and the winners go home with prize money that can amount to between US$ 1,000 and US$ 2,000. A trophy is also awarded to the owner of the bull that has proved most difficult to beat.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Adam Pretty
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Getty Images
    • Category Sports Action stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 11-07-2003
    • Country Spain
    • Place Barcelona
    • Caption Sports Portfolio: Synchronized divers Saez de Ibarra and Dolores Santos Leire train before the start of the 2203 World Swimming Championships at Piscina Municipal De Montjuic.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Craig Golding
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Category Sports Action stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 15-08-2003
    • Country Australia
    • Place Sydney
    • Caption Sports Portfolio: Australian diver Loudy Tourkey practices at the Sydney Aquatic Centre.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Adam Nadel
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Christian Science Monitor
    • Category Sports Features
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-08-2003
    • Country Sierra Leone
    • Place Freetown
    • Caption Captain of the national amputee soccer team, M'byo Conteh, practices with fellow teammates during a training camp prior to a tour of the United Kingdom in August. The club was founded in 2001 by men who had lost their limbs in Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war. Players come from the country's lowest socio-economic level and have little opportunity for employment. Part of the aim of the tour was to draw attention to the plight of amputees in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leoneans failed to defeat the UK's national amputee team.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Tom Reese
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Seattle Times
    • Category Sports Features
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 16-03-2003
    • Country USA
    • Place Seattle, Washington
    • Caption A business-suited runner joins the start of the 19th annual St Patrick's Day Dash. Over 10,500 runners and walkers participated in the 3.75-mile event, which was won by Mark Bomba (Canada), in 16 minutes 52 seconds. First woman home was fellow Canadian Leah Pells.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Vladimir Vyatkin
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication RIA Novosti
    • Category Sports Features
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-03-2003
    • Country Russia
    • Place Moscow
    • Caption Russian sportswomen go through their routine at the synchronized swimming school of the Moscow State Institute of Physical Culture. Russia is a leader in international competitions in the field. Initially a male sport, synchronized swimming is now practiced largely by women, and was first admitted to the Olympic Games as a full-medal sport in 1984.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Jakob Carlsen
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Category Sports Feature stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 16-06-2003
    • Country Pakistan
    • Place Shandur Pass
    • Caption Players ride out on to the plain at the top of the pass for morning practice. Every year a polo tournament high in the Himalayas attracts thousands of spectators. The pass is some 3,900m above sea level, and the opposing teams come from two villages on either side of the pass. Four matches are played over three days, with the crowds of spectators who come for the event transforming the plateau into a busy tent village. It is a great honor to win the tournament, and victorious players are held in high regard.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Jonas Lindkvist
    • Nationality Sweden
    • Organization / Publication Dagens Nyheter
    • Category Sports Feature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 09-11-2002
    • Country Sweden
    • Place Stockholm
    • Caption Antoni Khadraoui has won medals in both weightlifting and bodybuilding in Sweden and internationally. He suffered an accident that paralyzed his lower body while in the Algerian army. Later, having moved to Europe, he took up weightlifting to take his mind off the violence of the war in Algeria. He won a silver medal in the first major contest he entered, and has since taken numerous trophies, competing in categories not only specifically for people with disabilities, but also against able-bodied contestants. He has met some resistance from sports authorities in his insistence on breaking down barriers regarding disability within sport.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Jan Sibik
    • Nationality Czech Republic
    • Organization / Publication Reflex Magazine
    • Category Sports Feature stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-12-2003
    • Country India
    • Place Kolhapur
    • Caption Wrestlers practice grips during afternoon training. Kusti, a form of traditional Indian wrestling, takes place in an arena covered with red clay dust. The town of Kolhapur is the center of kusti, attracting young men from all over the country. Wrestlers train twice a day and live, eat and sleep together in a small room near the arena. Gymnastic and aerobic exercises form part of the training. After exercising, wrestlers rub their bodies with the dust to dry perspiration and prevent the body from cooling too quickly and causing illness. The earth is also thought to have curative properties.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Stephanie Sinclair
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Corbis for Marie Claire
    • Category Contemporary Issues
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 30-08-2003
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Herat
    • Caption Marzia (15), has her burns cleaned at the Herat Public Hospital. Terrified at the prospect of her husband's wrath after she short-circuited the television he had been saving for, she set fire to herself. Although no statistics are kept on female self-immolation, staff at the hospital estimate that they treated between 300 and 400 women with self-inflicted burns between November 2001 and February 2003. The suicide attempts make use of the kerosene used for cookers. Medical officers say that there were almost no similar cases under the Taliban regime, and some attribute the increase to a growing frustration as Western culture infiltrates Afghanistan, yet the position of women in society remains much the same.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Jacob Ehrbahn
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Politiken / Jyllands-Posten
    • Category Contemporary Issues
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-02-2003
    • Country Mongolia
    • Place Ulan Bator
    • Caption A street boy shelters in a corner of the Address Identification Center, a state center run by the police department to identify runaways and return them to their homes or orphanages. The breakdown of communist rule in Mongolia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, led to the first generation of street children. Police estimate that there are over a thousand street children in Ulan Bator. Most of them cannot stay with their families due to problems related to alcohol, violence or abuse and because they cannot adapt to regimented life in orphanages, end up running away. This means that it is often the same children that the police bring to the center again and again.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Felicia Webb
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Independent Photographers Group
    • Category Contemporary Issues
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 04-07-2003
    • Country USA
    • Place Houston, Texas
    • Caption Jonathan Rojo (14), sleeps attached to a BIPAP machine that forces air into his nostrils to counter the effects of obstructive sleep apnea. The condition is caused by excess fat constricting the throat, resulting in a chronic lack of oxygen. Jonathan weighs 118 kilograms. His sister Yomara is nine and weighs 70 kilograms. The World Health Organization has called obesity 'a global epidemic', and it is set to become the number one killer in the United States. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and the numbers are on the increase. Houston, where Jonathan and his sister live, has been named the fattest city in the US for the last three years running, with 37 per cent of children overweight, and 22 per cent obese. Across the country, obesity claims around 325,000 lives each year - more than the combined deaths from alcohol, drugs, shootings and road accidents, and second only to smoking-related deaths.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Lu Guang
    • Nationality China
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 10-01-2002
    • Country China
    • Place Henan province
    • Caption A wife cares for her dying husband. In the mid-1990s, poor peasants in Henan province sold their blood for 50 yuan a pint, enough to buy two bags of fertilizer. As a result of unsafe procedures, large numbers were infected with the HIV virus. In some villages up to 40 per cent of the inhabitants are seropositive, but for a long time have been isolated from help because the existence of Aids in China was not officially acknowledged. Even today, many villagers are uncertain whether they are infected and cannot afford a test, which costs 80 yuan. Organized help from local health authorities is underway, but many people do not have the money to go to hospital and are cared for by family and friends.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Walter Schels
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Der Spiegel
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 05-01-2003
    • Country Germany
    • Place Berlin
    • Caption Gerda Strech (69), was looked after by her daughter, who is a nurse, but was admitted to the Ricam hospice when her daughter burnt herself out. The practice of palliative hospice care in Germany goes back only to the 1980s. The Ricam hospice has 15 single rooms - more than a third of the total number of hospice beds available in the city. There was a growth in the palliative-care movement in response to patients suffering from Aids-related illnesses, but the advent of drugs cocktails that help control Aids has meant that, increasingly, hospice places are occupied by people with diseases such as cancer.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Tippi Thole
    • Nationality USA
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 31-01-2003
    • Country USA
    • Place St. Louis, Missouri
    • Caption Pamela Sullentrup struggles to maintain a normal life as her cancer advances, delighting in daily rituals that allow her to feel feminine and beautiful. Pamela was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in January 2000, when she was aged 20. For three years she underwent several rounds of chemotherapy as well as radiation therapy and bone-marrow transplantation, but the cancer did not stay in remission. In January 2003 doctors recommended that she enter hospice care in her own home.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Lorena Ros
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Fotopress La Caixa for Elle
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-08-2002
    • Country Nigeria
    • Place Benin City
    • Caption Two young women about be trafficked wait for a juju ritual to be performed on them. Thousands of Nigerian women are trafficked to Europe every year and forced to work in the sex industry. Having entered countries illegally, they are pushed to the periphery of society and have little access to social care. They remain in financial debt to their traffickers, and are also controlled by juju, a voodoo ritual whereby an oath of loyalty is pledged between a god, the trafficker and the woman.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Bruno Stevens
    • Nationality Belgium
    • Organization / Publication Cosmos for Stern / The New York Times Magazine
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 12-02-2003
    • Country Iraq
    • Place Baghdad
    • Caption Men pass the time at the Al Zahawi café, on Rashid Street, in the old part of Baghdad, some weeks before the US-led attacks on the city. Cafés like Al Zahawi, which is named after a famous local poet and musician, are an integral part of Baghdad life. Men gather after prayers to drink tea or Arabic coffee, converse and play dominoes or backgammon.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Giorgio Viera
    • Nationality Cuba
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 03-07-2003
    • Country Mexico
    • Place Mexicaltzingo, Guadalajara
    • Caption Alma (23), smokes an early-morning marijuana cigarette on a rooftop. This old neighborhood is home to many people living on the margins of city life, including prostitutes and street children. Marijuana is readily available, and the youth experiment with other substances in the face of the narrow options offered by poverty in an urban environment.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Qiu Yan
    • Nationality China
    • Organization / Publication Wuhan Evening News
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 06-05-2003
    • Country China
    • Place Wuhan, Hubei province
    • Caption A couple in wedding dress wear masks as a protection against Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) as they cross a street. The deadly virus, for which there was no cure, infects the lungs and is spread easily by person-to-person contact. It first made its appearance in Guandong province in November 2002 and spread rapidly around the country. Initial government reluctance to admit the extent of the epidemic lifted in April, when the official tally of infections in Beijing was boosted tenfold. By May more than 4,800 cases had been reported in at least 26 countries, with over 300 fatalities. As it was so easily transmittable, Sars caused widespread public concern, resulting in impositions of quarantine, and plummeting tourist and airline figures.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Stanley Greene
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-01-1995
    • Country Russia
    • Place Grozny, Chechnya
    • Caption A corpse lies in the snow in Minutka Square in Grozny. The severity of the Russian bombardment made it dangerous to venture out to retrieve the dead. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Chechnya proclaimed itself independent of Russia. In December 1994 Russian troops entered Chechnya to quash the independence movement. It is estimated that up to 100,000 people, many of them civilians, died in the ensuing 20-month war. Food and water supplies stopped within days of the Russian attack. Men and women searched for sustenance among the exploding shells, while the severity of the bombardment sometimes made it dangerous to venture out to retrieve the dead. Under Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a formal peace treaty was signed in July 1997, though the issue of independence wasn't settled. In 1999, under the new prime minister Vladimir Putin, Russian forces re-deployed in Chechnya. Open conflict, as well as suicide bombings in Chechnya and in Moscow, continued into 2003.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Erik Refner
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Rapho / Berlingske Tidende
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 17-05-2002
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Hemsby
    • Caption A 1950s Pontiac roars into town. Devotees of rock-and-roll retro gather for a 'Hemsby Rock 'n' Roll Weekender'. The festivals take place twice a year, in May and October, and can lay claim to being the biggest rock-and-roll lifestyle events in Europe, attracting thousands of fans from all over the world. Hemsby is chosen as a location as the village has changed little in the past 50 years. The 'Weekenders' last five days and nights and include live rockabilly music and other events that rekindle the spirit of the 1950s.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Sandy Nicholson
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication Redux Pictures
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1995
    • Country Australia
    • Place Melbourne
    • Caption Stacie (31) and Tom (41) like to wear rubber as a second skin, and to take photographs of each other. The people, activities and fetishes represented here are not part of an overt, inner-city transgressive sexual scene, but a more private, suburban realm.
    • Year 2003
    • Photographer Nick Danziger
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images / NB Pictures for Saturday Times Magazine
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 08-04-2003
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Northern Ireland
    • Caption US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair make eye contact in one of the few moments without aides at their sides, in Hillsborough Castle, a day before American troops entered Baghdad. The coalition that conducted the air and land attack on Iraq the previous month comprised almost entirely British and American forces. Britain's support for the American-led operation had caused a rift with other European Union countries, most notably Germany and France.
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