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    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Larry Towell
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
    • Category World Press Photo of the Year
    • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
    • Date 00-03-1993
    • Place Gaza City, Gaza Strip
    • Caption Boys raise toy guns in a gesture of defiance. The Palestinian uprising, which began in December 1987, strengthened the Arab population in their determination to fight the occupying force. In March Israel closed its border with Gaza, causing a massive rise in unemployment. With more than 800,000 people contained in the Israeli-patrolled, eight-km-wide strip of land, bloodshed increased sharply. The peace agreement signed in Washington on September 13 promised limited authority for the Gaza Strip and a withdrawal of the Israeli army.
    • 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.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Swapan Parekh
    • Nationality India
    • Organization / Publication Black Star
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 30-09-1993
    • Country India
    • Place Latur, Maharashtra
    • Caption This woman, who has lost her three children, shares her grief with other survivors of the worst earthquake to hit the subcontinent in decades. Hers was one of many families who perished, buried as they lay sleeping in their mud brick houses. Although the earthquake registered 'only' 6.4 on the Richter scale, it flattened a large, densely populated area, claiming some 15,000 lives and leaving 65,000 homeless. Having initially declined offers of help from abroad, India later accepted foreign relief supplies for the first time since its independence in 1947.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Stanley Greene
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-10-1993
    • Country Russia
    • Place Moscow
    • Caption 3 - 4 October. Militants in the White House after breaking through a police cordon during an anti-Yeltsin demonstration. A number of groups with widely differing ideas and objectives sided with Aleksandr Rutskoi during the October rebellion. The dissenting People's Deputies were joined by old-style communists, ultranationalists and militant groups.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Yeo Hong Yoon
    • Nationality South Korea
    • Organization / Publication Kookmin Ilbo
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 02-12-1993
    • Country South Korea
    • Place Seoul
    • Caption Minutes before the deadline for budget, Hwang Nakjoo, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly and a member of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party, railroaded the bill through parliament despite these attempts by the opposition to make it impossible for him to speak. After the angry inter-party confrontation the opposition declared the bill null and void.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Paul Watson
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication Toronto Star
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 04-10-1993
    • Country Somalia
    • Place Mogadishu
    • Caption Followers of General Aidid drag a slain American through the streets. Begun as a mission to relieve the famine in December 1992, the American and UN presence in Somalia was increasingly the focus of violent events. Negotiations with local warlords did not improve the situation, and the foreign soldiers were often treated as invaders.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Christopher Morris
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for Time
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-10-1993
    • Country Russia
    • Place Moscow
    • Caption Although the army put an end to the uprising by taking the White House on October 4, groups of anti-Yeltsin hard-liners attacking riot police continued to roam the capital for days. Waving red flags, they raced through the streets long after most of the rebels had surrendered. Around the parliament building uncaptured snipers continued their attacks. When the dust settled, the death count stood at almost 150, with about 1,000 people seriously injured.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Edward Opp
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Primus Photo Agency
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-10-1993
    • Country Russia
    • Place Moscow
    • Caption The power struggle between the legislature, led by Ruslan Khasbulatov and Aleksandr Rutskoi, and President Yeltsin came to a head when Yeltsin dissolved parliament on September 21. As the world looked on, the rebels barricaded themselves in the White House parliament building, where they installed Rutskoi as their new president. Barricades were erected on Moscow's main street. When soldiers and tanks appeared on the scene, they became targets for sniper fire from the White House. In the afternoon of October 4 the rebels, some of them injured, began evacuating the building. Storm troops reclaiming the White House for Yeltsin found more than 40 bodies.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Ron Richards
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 24-07-1993
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Fairford
    • Caption During an aerobatics display at the International Air Tattoo, two Russian MiG-29 jetfighters collided, bending the fuselage at cockpit level. Both pilots escaped unharmed.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Mike Goldwater
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers for Independent Magazine / Der Spiegel
    • Category General News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-11-1993
    • Country Burundi
    • Place Kerimba
    • Caption A girl recovers from a bayonet wound in a hospital where hundreds of Hutus take refuge during the violent aftermath of the army coup. When Burundi's first democratic elections brought Hutu Melchior Ndadaye to power, the future looked hopeful. Ndadaye planned to include both Hutus and Tutsis - the two main tribes with a long history of ethnic conflict - in his government. But on October 21 the coup put an end to his ambitions - and to his life. Excessive violence followed the coup, whose perpetrators escaped to Zaire.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer James Nachtwey
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Time
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Caption In a village church a Croatian family give free rein to their grief following the death of a relative who killed in the civil war. Despite persistent attempts to create the right conditions for peace in former Yugoslavia, war, death and destruction dominated life in Bosnia-Herzegovina throughout 1993. Time and again cease-fires were agreed, often to be broken in a matter of hours.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Keith Bernstein
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Frank Spooner Pictures / Gamma
    • Category General News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Sudan
    • Place Ayod
    • Caption A mother sits by her child who has just died of malnutrition. A long march had brought them to this abandoned school, one of the few buildings in the area left undamaged by the civil war. Aid agencies were using the school as an emergency feeding center.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Larry Towell
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-03-1993
    • Place Gaza City, Gaza Strip
    • Caption Boys raise toy guns in a gesture of defiance. The Palestinian uprising, which started in December 1987, strengthened the Arab population in their determination to fight the occupying force. In March Israel closed its border with Gaza, causing a massive rise in unemployment. With more than 800,000 people contained in the Israeli-patrolled, eight-km-wide strip of land, bloodshed increased sharply. The violence reached a peak in May, when 30 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured. The peace agreement signed in Washington on September 13 promised limited authority for the Gaza Strip and a withdrawal of the Israeli army.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer James Nachtwey
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Time
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-05-1993
    • Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Caption In an attempt to widen their land link with Serbia, Serb forces pushed past the defenders of the Muslim villages they found in their way. The sustained hostilities turned peasants into veteran fighters.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Jon Jones
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Sygma for Time
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-05-1993
    • Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Place Mostar
    • Caption The tense peace in Mostar was broken when the town became the scene of a bitter battle between Croats and Muslims. Guns in hand, Croat soldiers practiced ethnic cleansing from one house to the net, taking some 1,500 Muslim prisoners. Croatia's attacks on the historic city caused irreparable damage, and the population paid a high price in human suffering.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Jon Jones
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Sygma
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-10-1993
    • Country Georgia
    • Caption Since Georgia refused to grant independence to Islamic Abkhazia in 1992, violence reigned in the capital of Sukhumi, a once thriving seaside town. Its occupation by Abkhazian rebels signaled the start of the exodus of some 200,000 Georgians, bringing ethnic cleansing to the borders of the Black Sea. Early October saw an army of dispossessed Georgians leave their homes in Abkhazia for a long trek through the bitterly cold Caucasian mountains. The weak traveled by truck or tractor, the stronger marched for days on end, carrying what possessions they had managed to save. Progress was hampered by the very young, the sick and the wounded.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Luc Delahaye
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Sipa Press for Newsweek
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-07-1993
    • Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Place Sarajevo
    • Caption With just one medic remaining, brothers of deceased Bosnian soldier Remzija Aljukic succumb to their grief. After Remzija was shot by a Serb sniper, his brothers, who served in the same unit, rushed him to nearby Kosevo Hospital, a front-line medical center with only the most basic facilities. He died a few minutes after arriving at the emergency ward. Just as the doctors gave up trying to revive Remzija, his brothers burst into the room. At the time, between 15 and 30 war casualties died at the hospital every day.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Matuschka
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication New York Times Magazine
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Caption Taken after her mastectomy, this self-portrait by US multimedia artist Matuschka (39) is intended as a political statement about cancer, women and physical beauty. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, Matuschka resolved to use her art to raise public awareness and generate a deeper understanding of the impact of the disease on women's lives.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Stanley Greene
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Russia
    • Place Moscow
    • Caption Dressed in combat fatigues, former Russian Vice President Alexandr Rutskoi cowers with his bodyguard on the floor of the White House parliament building. When Rutskoi's diverse following tried to seize power in early October, Yeltsin quashed the rebellion by sending in tanks.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Roger Hutchings
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • Place Sarajevo
    • Caption An elderly evacuee. Throughout 1993, the capital of Sarajevo was a city struggling for survival. Two years of virtual siege had numbed and exhausted the population of 300,000, 15,000 of whom had been killed in the war by the end of the year. There was talk of autonomous provinces, safe havens and cease-fires, but the reality was one of bombs and bullets.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Ricardo Dávila Wood
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Cover
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country Cuba
    • Caption In the last three years, more than 12,000 children and some 1,700 adults from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have traveled to Cuba to receive treatment for diseases resulting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. At a hospital in a seaside resort some 250 doctors and nurses work at the former summer camp, where the patients are treated free of charge. Most of them suffer from leukemia, other blood disorders and various types of cancer. They stay at the hospital, surrounded by parks and sandy beaches, for eight weeks to two years.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Eugene Richards
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for The New York Times Magazine
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country USA
    • Place East Coast
    • Caption Mariella, a drug addict. This reportage on drug abuse and related crime concentrates on three areas: Red Hook, Brooklyn, where even the ice-cream van sells drugs; East New York, Brooklyn, where about 100 murders are committed every year; and North Philadelphia, where children are pushing drugs on street corners before they even reach their teens.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Tim Clayton
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Australia
    • Place Sydney
    • Caption Olympic 200m individual medley finalist Matthew Dunn during a training session. The 'glassy' effect is caused by the surface tension of the water, which is about to be broken by the thrust of the swimmer's head.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Tom Stoddart
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Katz Pictures
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country China
    • Place Beijing
    • Caption A moment of grace and beauty in a young life dominated by self-discipline and pain. At special sports schools in China, girls barely out of kindergarten are subjected to a strict regime designed to push the elasticity of the human body to its limits. Their goal: Olympic and/or world titles. At the sports school the day begins at 5.30 a.m. A strict timetable tailored around at least four hours of training a day, fits in schooling, rest and meals composed more for their nutritional value than their taste. The lights are switched off at 9 p.m. The girls are groomed to reach their peak when they are 14 or 15 years old. Children from remote rural areas, who have known poverty since they were born and who have developed willpower and discipline at an early age, score particularly highly at the school.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Anne Cusack
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Los Angeles Times
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country USA
    • Place Thousand Oaks, California
    • Caption During a basketball game, Leon Watson's 'slam dunk' is executed with such force that the backboard shattered and came crashing down on him - he had to go to hospital for stitches. The game between two high-school teams, the Crenshaw Cougars and the Faith Baptists, had to be abandoned.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Gideon Mendel
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers for Telegraph Magazine / Das Magazin
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Caption The new Zambian national football team poses for photographers. Six months before, the national team perished in a plane crash in Gabon. The country showed its resilience by putting together a new national selection in record time. The new team narrowly failed to qualify for the World Cup tournament in the USA.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Tom Stoddart
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Katz Pictures
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country China
    • Place Beijing
    • Caption At special sports schools in China, girls barely out of kindergarten are subjected to a strict regime designed to push the elasticity of the human body to its limits. Their goal: Olympic and/or world titles. At the sports school the day begins at 5.30 a.m. A strict timetable tailored around at least four hours of training a day, fits in schooling, rest and meals composed more for their nutritional value than their taste. The lights are switched off at 9 p.m. The girls are groomed to reach their peak when they are 14 or 15 years old. Children from remote rural areas, who have known poverty since they were born and who have developed willpower and discipline at an early age, score particularly highly at the school.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Roman Sejkot
    • Nationality Czech Republic
    • Organization / Publication Your Artillery
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Caption Afflicted with Down's syndrome, Bronislav Zemek (23) of Prague, was afraid of water as a child, but he overcame his fear and has been swimming regularly since he was 12, showing a keen taste for competition. For this fighting spirit, Zemek was selected to represent his country at the first Paralympiadee for the mentally disabled in Madrid. Although he had never competed in a race before, he set the first Czech record on the 200m breast stroke.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Gueorgui Pinkhassov
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for The New York Times Magazine
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country China
    • Caption Three men belonging to a group of artists known as the New Analysts. Groups of Chinese avant-garde artists, in such movements as Cynical Realism and Political Pop, pitch their irony and humor against the intransigence of the communist regime. Exhibitions of little political significance have been closed down more than once, while gestures of defiance are often so subtle as to go unnoticed abroad.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Raphaël Gaillarde
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country France
    • Place Paris
    • Caption The illuminated Louvre Palace, with architect I.M. Pei's inverted pyramid in the foreground. In 1993 the Louvre celebrated its 200th anniversary as a public museum. It was the Count d'Angivillier who began cataloguing, expanding and restoring the collection in the 18th century. In November President Mitterrand marked the bicentennial by opening an additional 22,000 square meters of exhibition space as part of the Grand Louvre project. One of the largest and most famous museums in the world, the Louvre receives some five million visitors a year. About 25,000 art works are exhibited at any one time.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Hans-Jürgen Burkard
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Bilderberg for Stern
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country Russia
    • Caption Fashion designer Andrei Bartenev hides behind one of his startling designs, executed in papier-mâché. Moscow's young artists refer to themselves as 'the children of the perestroika'. They have their own way of channeling their creative energy - and of having a good time.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Roger H. Ressmeyer
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Ressmeyer-Starlight for National Geographic
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country USA
    • Place New Mexico
    • Caption At the Starfire Optical Range a green copper-vapor laser and an orange sodium-wavelength laser are aimed through telescopes. Gases in specific layers of the atmosphere reflect the laser light, creating artificial stars. Leading edge technology enables scientists to examine even the most remote reaches of the universe. Distorting atmospheric effects are studied with the aid of laser beams, and computers use telescope optics to create images of unprecedented clarity.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Ronald Frommann
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Stern
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Germany
    • Place Dortmund
    • Caption At three weeks old, this child weighs just 1200 grams. A salad bowl serves as its bath. Parents can do little but watch as their role is filled by doctors and nurses at this neonatal center specialized in high-risk and premature births. Infants born three months early, some weighing as little as 500 grams, are no exception here. They are kept alive with the latest techniques and around-the-clock nursing care, but even so, most babies born before the 26th week of pregnancy suffer permanent damage.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Gilles Saussier
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma for Life
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Chile
    • Caption An unorthodox water collection project on Chile's coast at the Andean foothills. This area is enveloped in an almost permanent ribbon of clouds, but rarely produces rain. The ingenious system, funded jointly by the Chilean and Canadian governments, catches droplets of fog in giant nylon nets suspended between wooden posts. The water trapped in the fine mesh netting trickles down into a trough and is filtered and piped to a 96,000-liter storage tank. The system needs only two men to maintain it. This cheap, low-tech way of harvesting water for the nearby village of Chungungo has excited interest in more than 20 countries with similar climatic conditions.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Roger H. Ressmeyer
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Ressmeyer-Starlight for National Geographic
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country USA
    • Place New Mexico
    • Caption At the Starfire Optical Range a green copper-vapor laser and an orange sodium-wavelength laser are aimed through telescopes. Gases in specific layers of the atmosphere reflect the laser light, creating artificial stars. Leading edge technology enables scientists to examine even the most remote reaches of the universe. Distorting atmospheric effects are studied with the aid of laser beams, and computers use telescope optics to create images of unprecedented clarity.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Dirk Eisermann
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Das Fotoarchiv for Stern
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Caption Originally designed to transport goods, containers have proved amazingly adaptable.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Ronald Frommann
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Stern
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Country Germany
    • Place Dortmund
    • Caption A catheter is attached to the foot of an infant to establish the oxygen level in the blood. This neonatal center specializes in high-risk and premature births. Infants born three months early, some weighing as little as 500 grams, are no exception here. They are kept alive with the latest techniques and around-the-clock nursing care, but even so, most babies born before the 26th week of pregnancy suffer permanent damage.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Claudio Herdener
    • Nationality Argentina
    • Organization / Publication Editorial Atlántida
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Argentina
    • Place Patagonia
    • Caption In Patagonia some 80,000 birds die every year after being trapped in oily pools created during oil production. The birds, mistaking the pools for water, struggle to escape for several days. When they die, their bodies - and later their skeletons - remain suspended on the surface. In 1992 a law was passed forbidding the creation of new pools.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Frans Lanting
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Malaysia
    • Place Borneo
    • Caption A juvenile orangutan at one of the two rehabilitation centers in the Malaysian part of Borneo. The Borneo rain forest home to this orangutan, is destroyed at an alarming rate in order to produce timber. The centers prepare this endangered species, which spends most of its time in the treetops, for a return to its natural habitat.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Andrew Testa
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Reportage Magazine
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Caption A woman tries to disrupt the Surrey Union hunt by splitting the pack of hounds. Anti-hunting campaigns have been a feature of the English fo-hunting season for many years. Every season has its incidents and accidents, and recently hunts have begun hiring private security firms to confront the saboteurs.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Bill Greene
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Boston Globe
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-07-1993
    • Country USA
    • Caption Levees patched with sandbags. In the US Midwest heartland, weeks of solid rain coupled with insufficient precautions caused the worst flooding ever. Nine states were declared federal disaster areas and 100 million sandbags were bought to hold back the floods. When the water finally receded, 50 people had died and 70,000 had lost their homes. The total damage amounted to $12 billion. Communities up and down the Mississippi and Missouri rivers were swamped by the flood water.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Matt Black
    • Nationality USA
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Bolivia
    • Place Potosí
    • Caption In the frigid morning air, 4,070m above sea level, three people meet in the street. The untold riches of the city's silver mines, discovered in the 16th century, caused an unparalleled population explosion. Today, remnants of this opulent colonial past look oddly out of place in the desolation of the Andean mountains.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Ernesto Bazan
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication Newsweek
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Cuba
    • Place Havana
    • Caption A young girl plays at being a bride.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Søren Lorenzen
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country Poland
    • Place Guty
    • Caption A girl is given a swirl in the air by her grandfather while her father gazes at the forest. The father, Jan Stavinoga, is mayor of the village of eight modest farms.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Larry Towell
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Country Mexico
    • Place Casas Grandes
    • Caption Outside their house, Mennonite Herman Fehr, his wife and three daughters are almost blown off their feet by the strong wind. Mennonites are a protestant group descended from the 16th-century Anabaptists. They oppose military service, favor plain dress and believe that schooling threatens their way of life. In the 1920s, groups of Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico to escape government interference. In most Mexican colonies jewelry, watches and recorded music are banned, and it is forbidden to drive or own a vehicle. Today some 50,000 of Mennonites still live in northern Mexico, but thousands have moved back north because of the harsh conditions.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer James Nachtwey
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Geo
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Country India
    • Place Patna, Bihar
    • Caption Untouchables pull a sand-filled boat up the Ganges river to a brick factory. Fishermen by tradition, these 'mallahs' are now reduced to towing barges. In India the caste system, which has close links with Hindu tradition, has created a very hierarchical society. The system varies per region and affects every aspect of a person's life. On the lowest rung of the social ladder stand the untouchables. Although discrimination is now against the law, the hardest, dirtiest and lowest-paid jobs are reserved for them.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer Richard Baker
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Katz Pictures for Sunday Express Magazine
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1993
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Minehead
    • Caption Making a virtue of financial necessity, thousands of British vacationers return to the beaches of their youth rather than taking package trips to Mediterranean resorts. As the economic recession forces them to tighten their belts, they rediscover their own beaches for a cheap and cheerful holiday.
    • Year 1993
    • Photographer John Reardon
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Katz Pictures for Observer Magazine
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Kabul
    • Caption Cemetery. Although the war is officially over, fighting continues. While the world turned its attention to what was happening elsewhere, thousands were killed in the streets of this city.
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