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  1. 1998

    Contest facts
    • Year 1998
    • Photographer Stephen Dupont
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1998
    • Country Gambia
    • Caption Traditional wrestling in Africa is giving way in popularity to Western-style sports such as football. But in Gambia wrestling matches are still exciting, highly visual displays that attract crowds of local spectators. Dressed in bright loincloths, their bodies and arms covered in charms, wrestlers from different tribes parade around the ring to the sound of drums, flutes and whistles.

  3. 1996

    Contest facts
    • Year 1996
    • Photographer Stephen Dupont
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication for L'Express Magazine
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-01-1996
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Caption Protesters and police confronted each other in bitter clashes near Newbury in South East England, when preparations started for the construction of a highway bypass west of the town. The projected bypass cuts through an area of historical interest and an ancient forest. The activists tried to prevent trees being cut down by climbing them and by building rope walkways and tree houses.

  5. 1995

    Contest facts
    • Year 1995
    • Photographer Stephen Dupont
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Independent Photographers Group
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country Turkey
    • Place Edirne
    • Caption Ahmet Tasci, the Grand Champion of Turkish oil wrestling, prepares for the Kirkpinar tournament. Oil wrestling is a popular sport in Turkey. In order to make it extremely difficult for their opponents to get a grip and bring them down, the wrestlers are covered in olive oil.
    • Year 1995
    • Photographer Stephen Dupont
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Independent Photographers Group
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country India
    • Place Himalayas
    • Caption Darjeeling's 'toy train' chugs into the foothills. The foundations for India's proud claim to having the fourth largest railway system in the world were laid in 1851, when the first steam locomotive started running not far from Delhi. Over the years, about 24,000 followed. Despite the inevitable conversion to electric and diesel traction, some steam engines are still in active service today.

  8. 1994

    Contest facts
    • Year 1994
    • Photographer Stephen Dupont
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Katz Pictures
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1994
    • Country India
    • Place Delhi
    • Caption Push-ups are part of the training. Guru Hanuman (95) is celibate and a vegetarian. He was given his name, which he shares with the valiant monkey-god of Hindu legend, by holy men when he went in search of god as a teenager. He runs a wrestling school in Old Delhi. Since it opened in 1928, about 100,000 boys have attended the gymnasium, where aspiring athletes from the age of five are put through rigorous training routines. The guru's students have won medals at the Asian, Commonwealth and Olympic Games. Using his political connections - he counts several maharajahs among his patrons - Guru Hanuman frequently finds his pupils jobs in the police force, the army or on the railways.

  10. 1993

    Contest facts
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Stephen Dupont
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication Katz Pictures
    • Category Children's Award
    • Prize Individual awards
    • Date 1993
    • Country Philippines, The
    • Caption A child scavenges at the Smokey Mountain garbage dump on the outskirts of Manila. The police refuse to go here because they cannot bear the stench, yet it is home to 25,000 people, most of them from rural backgrounds. Though a quarter survive by scavenging, they form a tightly knit community full of hope, pride and resourcefulness.
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