Organization / PublicationDetroit Free Press / Black Star
CategoryWorld Press Photo of the Year
PrizeWorld Press Photo of the Year
Date00-02-1991
CountryIraq
CaptionUS Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz (23), gives vent to his grief as he learns that the body bag at his feet contains the remains of his friend Andy Alaniz. 'Friendly fire' claimed Alaniz's life and injured Kozakiewicz. On the last day of the Gulf War they were taken away from the war zone by a MASH unit evacuation helicopter.
Organization / PublicationMagnum Photos for The New York Times Magazine
CategoryOskar Barnack Award
PrizeIndividual awards
CountryKuwait
CaptionA well-capping operation is completed by American and Canadian specialists. Hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells were sabotaged by departing Iraqis, turning the desert into a poisoned inferno. Specialist firefighters moved in to minimize the damage.
CaptionThe arrival of a US Sikorsky 'green giant' helicopter with relief supplies causes a stampede of famished Kurdish refugees. An eight year old girl was trampled to death in the melee. Iraq's Kurdish population had to pay dearly for its uprising in the aftermath of the Gulf War. Driven north by the Iraqi army, which had used chemical weapons on them in 1988 and '89, some two million Kurds started on the long trek to neighboring Turkey and Iran. Countless people died in the bitter cold of the barren mountains. Aid programs were slow to get underway.
CaptionCroatian soldiers holding out against Serbian forces. Croatia's declaration of independence in June was followed by a bloody civil war in Yugoslavia.
CaptionThe Soviet Republic of Georgia proclaimed its independence on April 9, but President Zviad Gamsakhurdia began to show dictatorial tendencies. In December, when the rest of the former USSR was busy forming the new Commonwealth of Independent States, Georgia's capital erupted into violence. The city had a Christmas red with blood, costing dozens of Georgians their lives. After a protracted siege Gamsakhurdia's opponents forced him to flee his country early in 1992.
Organization / PublicationDetroit Free Press / Black Star
CategorySpot News
PrizeHonorable mention
Date00-02-1991
CountryIraq
CaptionUS Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz (23), gives vent to his grief as he learns that the body bag at his feet contains the remains of his friend Andy Alaniz. 'Friendly fire' claimed Alaniz' life and injured Kozakiewicz. On the last day of the Gulf War they were taken away from the war zone by a MASH unit evacuation helicopter.
CaptionThe Soviet Republic of Georgia proclaimed its independence on April 9, but President Zviad Gamsakhurdia began to show dictatorial tendencies. In December, when the rest of the former USSR was busy forming the new Commonwealth of Independent States, Georgia's capital erupted into violence. The city has a Christmas red with blood, and after the protracted siege Gamsakhurdia's opponents forced him to flee his country early in 1992. The fighting cost dozens of Georgians their lives.
CaptionA suspected Tonton Macoute is burnt to death on a funeral pyre of wood and rubber tires. The violence that had characterized Haiti reached a new peak in January 1991. A leader of former dictator Duvalier's secret police - the sinister Tonton Macoutes - tried to seize power, but this time the army sided with the democratic forces. A bloody backlash followed.
CaptionThe ultra right wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement tries to disrupt a speech by South Africa's President De Klerk. During the rioting, four people were killed.
CaptionA young boy gives free rein to his grief at the funeral of his father, a Croatian policeman killed by Serbian guerrillas. Croatia's declaration of independence marked the start of a bloody civil war between Croatian national guards and Serbian militias backed by the federal army.
Organization / PublicationJB Pictures for Newsweek
CategoryGeneral News
Prize2nd prize
Date00-03-1991
CountryPeru
PlaceCajamarca
CaptionA girl holds her sick mother. The worst cholera epidemic in Latin America of the century claimed thousands of victims from Peru to Brazil and from Colombia to Chile.
CaptionHaggard and despondent, residents of Vukovar emerge after the Croatian militia lost control of the town after a months-long siege. They find the town in ruin and Serbian soldiers and militiamen in command. Vukovar was a focus of ethnic strife in Yugoslavia's civil war. About ten per cent of the population of 50,000 refused to leave the homes where they had lived in peace with their Serbian neighbors.
CaptionA mother watches over her sick child. The exact scale of the epidemic was hard to gauge, but a quarter of a million South Americans were estimated to be affected by cholera in 1991. The disease, with symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting and eventually total dehydration, spread like wildfire among people too poor to observe some basic hygiene. Thousands died in places where running water and soap are unattainable luuries.
CaptionA raid on a sauna. Organized crime is nothing new in the former Soviet Union. The Russian mafia is involved in extortion, drugs and prostitution. Of the estimated 5,000 gangs, 70 were rounded up in six months thanks to an all out effort by a special police unit.
CaptionShaken, but not (yet) defeated. President Gorbachev and his family leave the plane that has flown them back to Moscow from the Crimea. What should have been a holiday turned into a nightmare when they became hostages as eight hard line communists made their bid for power.
Organization / PublicationU.S. News & World Report
CategoryPeople in the News
Prize3rd prize
Date00-03-1991
CountryUSA
PlaceWashington DC
CaptionFormer US President Ronald Reagan pays a visit to the White House. When he indicated that President Bush should be the first to answer reporters' questions, Bush returned the gesture.
CaptionWork in progress at the oil field. Iraq's demolition troops left hundreds of 'wild wells' in Kuwait gushing with oil, as much as six million barrels a day at the peak. Then the desert firefighters moved in, latter day cowboys with helmets instead of stetsons, working for companies with names like Boots & Coots and Safety Boss. They got to work amidst unexploded mines and the roar of burning jets of oil, on soil so hot it blistered their knees as they knelt down. First the fires had to be put out, then came the messy business of well capping.
Organization / PublicationNetwork Photographers for The Sunday Telegraph
CategoryPeople in the News stories
Prize3rd prize
CountryTurkey
CaptionA young Kurd takes a last look at his homeland before climbing down to Isikveren refugee camp on the Turkish-Iraqi border. The Kurdish trek north was the largest exodus of refugees since the partition of India and Pakistan.
CaptionKurdish refugee camp. The allied victory in the Gulf War gave the Kurds in northern Iraq the courage to revolt. For three weeks in spring they were masters of their land, confident that the West would defend their new found freedom. But the uprising was grounded to a halt and US-led forces refused to intervene to support the rebels. A flood of refugees, many of them survivors of the Iraqi army's chemical attacks in the late 1980s, moved north into Turkey, where more hardship awaited. Aid eventually arrived, but the Turkish army ran the refugee camps like prison camps. Only the very sick were allowed to leave the camp for treatment.
CaptionCourse marshals and a caddy look on as Payne Stewart hits a shot in his approach to the eighth hole at Pebble Beach Golf Club. He competed in the AT&T Open in February. Monterey Bay are shimmers in the background.
CaptionMike Powell bites the dust at the World Athletics Championships. After almost 23 years he broke Bob Beamon's legendary long jump record, set at the Mexico Olympics. The news that his 8.90m record had been improved by five cm reached Beamon on his birthday.
CaptionFour Hours in the Tour de France, the uphill struggle to the 2114m high top of the Col du Tourmalet. Held at the height of the holiday season, the Tour de France draws thousands of spectators, some of whom refresh the cyclists by showering them with water.
CaptionThe Palio is an opportunity for Tuscan young men to show their prowess. The horse race lasts only about 75 seconds, but the prestige earned by the winner is immense. Each of Siena's ten neighborhoods chooses its own 'knight', who does his utmost to prove himself worthy of the honor.
CaptionThe cast of Molière's 'Le Malade Imaginaire' (The Hypochondriac) at the Comédie-Française, Paris' number one venue for classical drama. Founded by Louis IV in 1680 the theater is also known as the Maison de Molière, the playwright whose work is performed most frequently. In January a special program paid homage to this great 17th century writer, who mocked the behavior and conventions he saw in the class conscious society around him.
Organization / PublicationMagnum Photos for National Geographic / Geo
CategoryScience & Technology
Prize1st prize
Date1991
CaptionBrutal Kinship. 'Lemsip' has been anesthetised to perform routine bleeding for Aids research. The animal most closely resembling man, the chimp, is frequently used in medical research.
Organization / PublicationBlack Star for National Geographic
CategoryScience & Technology
Prize2nd prize
Date1991
CountryNigeria
PlaceOgbomosho
CaptionGenetic Erosion: the World's Food Supply at Risk. A young girl close to death from malnutrition receives soy milk from a syringe at a children's home. The high protein food, produced by cross breeding soy bean varieties from Brazil and Indonesia, is proving to be a life saver in a world where about one billion people are afflicted by hunger.
CaptionThe Paris police use scientific methods to solve some of the many crimes committed in the metropolis every day. New techniques include the computerized comparison of fingerprints. Here prints are visualized before further processing.
