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  1. 1975

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    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Stanley Forman
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Boston Herald
    • Category World Press Photo of the Year
    • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
    • Date 22-07-1975
    • Country USA
    • Place Boston
    • Caption A mother and her daughter are hurled off a collapsing fire-escape in an apartment house fire. Together with a fire-fighter, they waited for the rescue ladder to reach them. As the fire-fighter climbed onto the ladder, the fire-escape collapsed under their feet and they fell to the ground five floors below. The woman was killed but the child survived, her fall cushioned by the woman's body.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Thai Khac Chuong
    • Organization / Publication United Press International
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country Vietnam
    • Caption A man trying to board an overloaded evacuation plane is stopped by an American official in South Vietnam.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Nico Koster
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication De Telegraaf
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country Netherlands, The
    • Place Amsterdam
    • Caption The first ultimatum in a hostage situation at the Indonesian consulate. Hostages were taken by a group of South Moluccans appealing to the Dutch government for improved circumstances and support for independence from Indonesia.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Ben Blumers
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Rotterdams Nieuwsblad
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-12-1975
    • Country Netherlands, The
    • Place Amsterdam
    • Caption Hostages are released from the Indonesian consulate. They were held by a group of South Moluccans appealing to the Dutch government for improved circumstances and support for an independent state in Indonesia. Of the 41 hostages taken, 16 were children - who were the first to be released.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer David Hume Kennerly
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The White House
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption A husband comforts his dying wife at a Cambodian war refugee centre.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Tadeusz Trepanowski
    • Nationality Poland
    • Organization / Publication Panorama Polnócy
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption Tired clergymen.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Klaus P. Siebahn
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Sven Simon Fotoagentur
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country Spain
    • Place Monte de El Pardo
    • Caption A woman mourns the death of General Franco in front of the El Pardo palace.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer David Valentine
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication The Daily News
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country South Africa
    • Caption Enoch Ndlovu with his trophy after winning a Zulu dancing contest.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Axel O. Carp
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Stern
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country Angola
    • Place Luanda
    • Caption Girls during a Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) demonstration.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Krzysztof Niemiec
    • Nationality Poland
    • Organization / Publication Revista Granica
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption The apple of father Niemic's eye'.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer James Bourdier
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country USA
    • Place Biscayne Bay, Miami
    • Caption Three speedboats flip over at the start of a race.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Andre Baranyi
    • Nationality Belgium
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption A ping-pong player serves for the final point.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Daniel Farrell
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication New York Daily News
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country USA
    • Place New York
    • Caption A man clears the track for runners of the classic mile.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer David Hume Kennerly
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The White House
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption A Cambodian refugee.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Volker Hinz
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Stern
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption Mario Soares, socialist leader of Portugal.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Kent E. Gavin
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Daily Mirror
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Leicester
    • Caption A policeman mourns a dead friend.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Clive Limpkin
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Daily Mail
    • Category General Features
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1975
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer John Edmund Lamb
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Age
    • Category General Features
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption A bridegroom listens to the FA Cup Final on the radio on his wedding day.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Hartmut Beifuss
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
    • Category General Features
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption An elderly woman receives an injection.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Stanley Forman
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Boston Herald
    • Category News Picture stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 22-07-1975
    • Country USA
    • Place Boston
    • Caption A mother and her daughter are hurled off a collapsing fire-escape in an apartment house fire. Together with a fire-fighter, they waited for the rescue ladder to reach them. As the fire-fighter climbed onto the ladder, the fire-escape collapsed under their feet and they fell to the ground five floors below. The woman was killed but the child survived, her fall cushioned by the woman's body.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Albert Roosenburg
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Category News Picture stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country Netherlands, The
    • Place Amsterdam
    • Caption In the first hour of the 16-day occupation of the Indonesian consulate, a hostage makes an attempt to escape from his South-Moluccan captors. He signaled in vain for a blanket before jumping, and died later in the hospital.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Sven-Erik Sjöberg
    • Nationality Sweden
    • Organization / Publication Dagens Nyheter
    • Category News Picture stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 17-04-1975
    • Country Cambodia
    • Place Phnom Penh
    • Caption The fall of Phnom Penh: A republican soldier cries over his dead friends.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Pablo Bartholomew
    • Nationality India
    • Category Feature Picture stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country India
    • Caption A drug addict.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Michael O'Brien
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Miami News
    • Category Feature Picture stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country USA
    • Place Miami
    • Caption John Madden, a homeless man. "I'll never quit drinking. Some people say they'll quit, but they lie like hell.... I like to get an early start. Sometimes I get in the soup line at the Brothers of the Good Shepherd, but they pray at you damn too much...".
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Shadrack Nkomo
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication World Newspapers
    • Category Feature Picture stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country South Africa
    • Caption Flyweight Petrus 'Trizza' Nkhwanazi is beaten unconscious in the 6th round of a boxing match. He later died of brain injuries in a hospital.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Jan Stappenbeld
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication De Telegraaf
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country Netherlands, The
    • Place Beilen
    • Caption A hostage is executed on hijacked train no. 734. A group of South Moluccans hijacked the train, appealing to the Dutch government to press for an independent state for their people in Indonesia. Their parents, many of whom fought on the side of the ruling Dutch during Indonesia's war of independence between 1945 and 1949, left Indonesia for fear of reprisals. For about 25 years they lived in temporary camps, often in poor conditions. They hoped to return but were gradually integrated into Dutch society. Currently some 40,000 South Moluccans live in the Netherlands.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Peter Bregg
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Caption US President Gerald Ford takes a fall.
    • Year 1975
    • Photographer Sven-Erik Sjöberg
    • Nationality Sweden
    • Organization / Publication Dagens Nyheter
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1975
    • Country Cambodia
    • Caption An abandoned boy in a rice paddy in a suburb of Phnom Penh, days before the republic's fall to the Khmer Rouge. His parents were killed and his home burnt during a mortar attack.
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