Organization / PublicationBlack Star for Verdens Gang
CategoryChildren's Award
PrizeIndividual awards
Date00-04-1999
PlaceBlace
CaptionKosovo Albanians trapped in a no man's land at the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. As tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians fled their homes, Macedonian authorities closed the borders for fear of too great an influx. The Kosovars were caught between Serb paramilitary units on one side, and Macedonian forces on the other. International media were given severely restricted access, so it was difficult for the refugees to communicate their plight.
CaptionSurvivors emerge from the wreckage of a car bomb. In 1999 Indonesia held its first ever democratic elections. In June the PDI party headed by Megawati Sukarnoputri won most seats in parliament, but not enough to guarantee she would be elected president. At subsequent presidential elections in October the parliament voted in PKB party head Abdurraham Wahid as leader. Megawati lost by just 60 votes. As word of her defeat spread, rioting broke out.
Organization / PublicationContact Press Images for U.S. News & World Report
CategorySpot News
Prize2nd prize
Date31-03-1999
CountryYugoslavia
PlacePriština, Kosovo
CaptionKosovo Albanians, forced from their homes are marched to the train station by plainclothes Serbian police in unmarked cars. The photographer and his family were part of the evacuation, and were eventually taken to Macedonia. The film was smuggled first out of Kosovo and then out of the refugee camp.
CaptionIndian artillery guns are engulfed in one of four battle zones in the disputed territory of Kashmir. Fighting had been raging since May, bringing India and Pakistan to the brink of war. On July 10 an operation by the Indian army cleared most infiltrating troops from Dras, and by July 16 fighting in Kashmir had died down. The conflict over Kashmir dates back more than 50 years, and has been behind two of the three wars between India and Pakistan.
Organization / PublicationSaba Press Photos for Time
CategorySpot News stories
Prize1st prize
Date00-11-1999
CountryIndonesia
PlaceJakarta
CaptionStudents deface posters of President Habibie prior to October presidential elections. During the elections, the first news to spread among crowds waiting for the result was that the popular Megawati Sukarnoputri had won. Supporters' jubilation turned sour when they learned the true result, that parliament had chosen Muslim leader Abdurraham Wahid as president. The street violence that broke out as the election result became known died down only after Megawati herself appealed for calm, and when it was made known that she was to be vice-president.
CaptionEarly in the evening a nail bomb exploded in The Admiral Duncan gay pub in Soho. Three people died and up to 70 were injured. It was the third such bombing in less than two weeks. Earlier bombs had gone off in predominantly black and Bengali areas of the city. Police arrested and charged a 22-year-old man early on May 1. They reported that the bomber was acting alone, and was not affiliated to any of the extremist right-wing groups that had claimed responsibility for the bombings. Later, the man admitted causing the explosions.
Organization / PublicationSaba Press Photos for Time
CategorySpot News stories
Prize3rd prize
Date16-08-1999
PlaceDili, East Timor
CaptionBernardino Guterres, wearing a badge of East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao pinned to his cap, is attacked by Indonesian police. In August, residents of East Timor voted to end Indonesian occupation of the island. Four days before the election, violence broke out between pro-independence supporters and the anti-independence militia. During one of the clashes, Guterres, appealed to Indonesian police standing nearby to intervene. Instead, they turned on him. He was killed by a police bullet.
CaptionRussian marines help a wounded fellow soldier after being caught in an ambush near Tsentoroi. In September, Russian forces began military action against Chechen rebels. Initial operations were confined to air attacks, but on 1 October Russian troops entered Chechnya. By the beginning of December the Russians had surrounded the capital Grozny, which they stormed on the 25th. The Russians held that their casualties during the conflict were minimal.
Organization / PublicationTaiwan News / Corbis Sygma for U.S. News & World Report
CategoryGeneral News
Prize2nd prize
Date22-09-1999
CountryChina
PlaceTaipei, Taiwan
CaptionRescue personnel working with equipment usually used for transporting building material, free an injured woman trapped for hours in the Tunghsing Building after an earthquake. The quake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck early on Tuesday September 21, while many people were still asleep. Over 2,000 people died, tens of thousands were left homeless, and thousands of buildings were toppled in what was the most powerful earthquake to hit the island in a century.
CaptionSupporters of the PDI (Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan) cheer for their leader Megawati Sukarnoputri. The PDI went on to win the parliamentary elections on June 7, in a contest that involved 48 parties. It gained 33 per cent of the votes and 153 seats in the 500-seat parliament. The elections passed peacefully, but violence was to erupt later in the year when parliament failed to elect Megawati as president.
CaptionJanuary - February. The wife of a Kosovo Liberation Army soldier faints during his funeral. Early in the year, conflict resumed after fragile truce, causing another wave of refugees. In mid-January, 45 ethnic Albanians were killed during a Serb offensive on the village of Racak. Later in the month in Rogovo, west of Priština, 24 ethnic Albanians were ambushed and shot.
Organization / PublicationCorbis Sygma for Newsweek
CategoryGeneral News stories
Prize2nd prize
Date1999
PlaceEast Timor
CaptionAt the end of August a referendum was held which resulted in an 80 per cent vote for independence from Indonesia. Tension escalated and violence intensified after results were announced, as pro-Indonesian militia went on a rampage, killing independence supporters and setting fire to buildings. Eventually the UN intervened, sending in an Australian peace-keeping force on September 20.
CaptionIn September, Russian forces began military action against Chechen rebels. Initial operations were confined to air attacks, but on 1 October Russian troops entered Chechnya. By the beginning of December the Russians had surrounded the capital Grozny, which they stormed on the 25th. The Russians held that their casualties during the conflict were minimal.
CaptionHaving just crossed the border in a tractor, Kosovar Albanian refugees arrive at a camp on the road to Kukës. By March 19 peace talks in Rambouillet, France, had broken down, with the Serbs refusing to agree to a NATO peace-keeping force in Kosovo. The failure of diplomacy opened the way for NATO airstrikes. After the first bombardment of Serbia on March 24, Serbian troops and paramilitaries intensified attacks on Kosovo villages, and the exodus to neighboring countries escalated.
Organization / PublicationHollandse Hoogte for Metro
CategoryPeople in the News
Prize2nd prize
Date1999
CountryAngola
PlaceCaála
CaptionRefugees shelter at a camp following renewed hostilities. The civil war between Unita resistance forces led by Jonas Savimbi, and the governing MPLA under President Eduardo dos Santos has gone on almost continuously since independence in 1975. Landmines make farming dangerous and villages have been burned. More than a million Angolans have been made homeless since the collapse of peace agreements and renewed fighting at the end of 1998. Many live in abandoned factories, railway stations and makeshift camps in the cities.
CaptionJordanians grieve the loss of King Hussein outside the King Hussein Medical Center. The king died from cancer in February at the age of 63. He had been monarch for nearly 47 years and was a strong advocate of peace in the Middle East. Mourners streamed to the palace to pay their respects. Thousands lined the route of the funeral procession, and representatives of countries that traditionally were enemies stood alongside each other at the ceremony.
CaptionMarch-July. A family fleeing Kosovo is reunited at the Albanian border after the mother and child had crossed alone. From March through May, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians fled Serbian aggression in Kosovo. After a lengthy hold-off in the face of NATO bombardment, Serbian president Milosevic finally accepted a peace plan for Kosovo on June 3. On June 12, NATO forces made their way into Kosovo from Albania and Macedonia. As Serbian civilians and the Yugoslavian military moved across the border to Serbia, Kosovars began to return, but many found their homes destroyed.
CaptionA masked member of the Aitarak militia looks down from the back of a lorry in the capital. Violence erupted in East Timor following the Indonesian president's announcement in April that a referendum would be held on the question of the island's independence. Pro-Indonesian militia groups clashed with supporters of independence in an attempt to force a 'No' vote.
CaptionA girl arrives in the town soon after the beginning of the NATO bombardment. In the first week after the onset of the NATO offensive against Serbia, 118,000 ethnic Albanians fled increased Serbian violence in Kosovo. Governments and aid agencies were surprised by the volume of the exodus. UN officials had expected a total of 100,000 people to leave, but nearly a million ethnic Albanians eventually fled the country. Initially, many refugees headed to Macedonia, but the authorities feared further ethnic tension as there was already a sizable Albanian minority living there. Extra camps were set up in Albania, where more than 50,000 people ended up near the town of Kukës. It is estimated that the vast majority of the 1.8 million people living in Kosovo had to leave their homes during the conflict. Many people were trapped inside the country itself, hiding out in forests and in the hills.
CaptionDiane Carpenter bathes her daughter Beth (13), who is autistic. Beth's language development stopped at the level of a 20-month old child, and she has most of her basic needs taken care of by her mother. Diane helps her daughter bathe, wash her hair, clean her teeth, and get dressed every day.
Organization / PublicationPropaganda Pictures for World Vision / Rolling Stone
CategoryPortraits
Prize2nd prize
Date1999
CountryAzerbaijan
CaptionGulhar Hasanova has lived for the past seven years, together with 10,000 other Azerbaijanis, in a camp made up of old metal railway carriages in Imishli. The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, begun in 1993, has left thousands of people displaced. Gulhar's former home village is occupied by Armenian forces. Gulhar was born around 1917. Her first husband and her brother were killed in the Second World War. Her second husband and two of her three children have died in Imishli.
CaptionPope John Paul II celebrates an outdoor mass for the beatification of Anton Martin Slomsek (1800-1862), the first bishop of Maribor. The aging pope uses his crosier for support at a rare moment in the mass when he is not attended.
CaptionThe musical comedian Victor Borge was born in Copenhagen in 1909, trained as a classical pianist, but by the 1930s was already blending humor with his music. In the 1940s he left Denmark for the US, becoming an American citizen in 1948. Though at first he could speak little English, he soon learned the language and adapted his unique comic routine for a wider audience. Worldwide popularity followed. Here Borge himself recovers from a fit of laughter at his home.
Organization / PublicationAgence Vu for DS Magazine
CategoryPortraits stories
Prize1st prize
CountryEgypt
PlaceCairo
CaptionEvery year more than two million people from all over Egypt gather in Cairo for a mawlid for Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Mohammed. For one week many camp out among sacrificial goats and camels. A mawlid is an Islamic religious festival in honor of a saint. Celebrations mingle religious elements with ancient rituals and something of the atmosphere of a country fair. A mawlid is very much a people's festival. Established scholarly religious practice is counterbalanced by popular mysticism, pre-Islamic traditions and trance states. Many of the practices are passed down through generations rather than enshrined in conventional belief.
CaptionPierre Boulez works on the score of Explosante Fie, a homage to Stravinsky. French composer and conductor Boulez focuses his activities on contemporary and modern music. He is considered one of the best interpreters of the Vienna School - Schönberg, Berg and Webern - and is deeply involved in such cornerstones of the contemporary music world as the Festival of New Music in Darmstadt, Germany, and the IRCAM institute in Paris. Boulez is also at the center of the involvement of electronics in new music, and is president of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, a group of musicians whose aim is virtuoso interpretation of modern music.
CaptionA leopard. A series of portraits of animals taken in captivity. Working at close quarters in a zoo can reveal aspects of an animal's individuality not always evident in the wild.
CaptionA surfer carves his way through a breaking wave. Large numbers of Florida surfers travel to Costa Rica, as the waves are good and life is cheaper than going to the west coast of the United States.
CaptionCars streak across the desert on the Bîr Mogreïn/Atâr leg of the Paris-Dakar Rally, which started in Granada, Spain. The fifth leg of the race begins with a mass start on a wide piste, and covers 625km. The rally was won by the Frenchman Jean Louis Schlesser with co-driver Philippe Monnet.
CaptionA South Australian batsman sets off for a run as light fades towards the end of the second day's play during the Sheffield Shield cricket match. The Sheffield Shield is the country's major domestic cricket competition. South Australia eventually emerged victorious over opponents New South Wales on the fourth day of play.
CaptionCrews of two yachts play tactical games to get into the best starting position during the America's Cup, one of the sailing world's most prestigious competitions. In the first rounds of the contest, yachts race against each other in twos.
CaptionFootball provides some relief, focus and stability to children traumatized by the civil war. The war lasted seven years, leaving a broken economy and continued skirmishes in the north of the country. Thousands of children fought in the war. Teams like the Millennium Stars, made up of former child-combatants, help children to develop an alternative sense of pride, in sports skill rather than in violence.
CaptionNuba wrestlers join in a three-day contest. This year´s festival was held to commemorate the great champion, Jumping Donkey, who had died six months earlier at the age of 95. The village is in the same region where, half a century ago, the photographer George Rodger took a classic photo of a Nuba wrestler carrying another on his shoulders. Today, the Nuba are struggling to preserve their culture from forced assimilation into the dominant Islamic culture of the north.
CaptionKathakali actors prepare to go on stage at the Globe Theatre. The theatre is a replica of the original Globe, where Shakespeare's plays were performed 400 years ago. The Annette Leday Dance Company, an Indo-French collaboration of dancers, perform a Kathakali version of Shakespeare's King Lear. Kathakali is a centuries-old South Indian dance form in which vivid use of make-up, costume, and delicate eye and hand movements play an integral part.
CaptionNelisiswe Xaba marks her footsteps by sprinkling flour over her feet as she moves about the stage in a dance by Robyn Orlin at the Dance Umbrella festival. Dance Umbrella is a month-long annual event, now in its twelfth year, that showcases contemporary dance from the region, as well as from abroad.
CaptionFlamenco dancer Silvia Chanivet performs with her group. The group comes from Cadiz, in Andalucia, southern Spain, where flamenco has its heart. However, they spend eight months a year performing in the north, primarily for tourists.
CaptionIn her youth, Chen Ailian (60), was known as the 'Queen of Chinese Dance', and won four gold medals in an international competition. But in 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, she was forced to abandon her career and to go and live in the country. Returning to the profession in the 1980s, she opened a private academy to promote Chinese dance. In 1999 she made a stage comeback, taking the leading role, of a 15-year-old girl, in the classical dance Dreams of the Red Mansion. Fans were enthusiastic, but the physical demands of the role, and a tour that covered a city a day, took their toll.
CaptionAt the Shaolin temple men practice a particular form of wushu, war art. The 18 basic positions of what some call Shaolin Kung Fu are inspired by the movement and agility of animals. According to legend, over 1,500 years ago, the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma introduced Indian principles of meditation and yogic calisthenics to the Shaolin monks' own tradition, to help them endure the physical demands of long periods of meditation. Over the centuries, the men of the Shaolin temple added skills from different martial arts to Bodhidharma's original system, and became renowned as warrior-monks.
CaptionFootbridges connect the Tiananmen Gate of the Forbidden City to the street. Portraits of bridges show how they combine technological know-how with architectural impact. Bridges often represent the technological high points of their time. In medieval times, bridges often formed part of fortifications; by the 18th century they had become lighter and more elegant. In the 19th and 20th centuries new materials and techniques led to spectacular feats of engineering.
Organization / PublicationU.S. Navy / Sports Illustrated
CategoryScience & Technology
Prize1st prize
Date07-07-1999
PlacePacific Ocean
CaptionA US Navy F/A-18 'Hornet' passing through a water vapor cloud at the speed of sound. The jet was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron One Five One, at the time deployed with the aircraft carrier USS Constellation. The shot was taken from the 0-10 level weather deck, the highest vantage point on the ship.
Organization / PublicationEye of Science for Capital
CategoryScience & Technology
Prize2nd prize
Date1999
CaptionA micro-submarine travels through a human artery. The submarine was made by a micro technology firm in Duisburg, Germany, using a technique by which three-dimensional objects can be created directly from a computer program, by means of laser beams. Equipped with appropriate instruments, such submarines will in future be able to detect defects in internal organs.
CaptionThe sight in Michelle Pevarnik's right eye is saved by a tissue transplant from her sister Brenda. Dr Stephen Foster, a professor at Harvard Medical School, harvested stem cells - factories that produce various types of cells - from the surface of Brenda's eye under local anesthetic. Normally, the body replaces these cells regularly, but in Michelle's case they were damaged and had to be replaced.
CaptionThis face robot from the Science University of Tokyo has electric actuators beneath its silicon skin that change facial expressions much as human muscles do. Robotics institutes around the world come up with inventions that have both practical application and popular appeal.
CaptionDoctors in a highly specialized Emergency Burns Unit carry out a new treatment for severe burns that involves grafting skin grown in a laboratory from the patient's own cells. Transplants of skin from another person result in rejection. Even patients with 90 percent burns usually have small patches of healthy tissue, such as between the toes. This skin is sent to a laboratory in Boston, US, where cells capable of quick reproduction are cultivated, and in less than three weeks grow into a piece of skin 10,000 times the size of the original sample. This can survive for only 24 hours outside the lab, so must be rushed to the hospital. At the hospital patients have to be kept in exceptionally sterile conditions, as the body has lost its protective layer.
CaptionA firefighting plane sheds its load over the Tupras Oil refinery. The refinery had been on fire since an earthquake hit the area early the day before. Firefighters could not pump water to fight the blaze, because the quake had knocked out electricity to the region. The earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the Richter scale, claimed more than 17,000 lives and made hundreds of thousands homeless. It was not only a humanitarian disaster, but had a severe impact on the Turkish economy, as the affected area formed the industrial heart of the country.
CaptionWildebeest cross the river. Each year, wildebeest migrate from the south Serengeti in Tanzania to Masai Mara in Kenya, in search of fresh grazing grounds. Along the way they are an easy target for predators. Some 1.5 million animals made the journey in 1999, in the biggest migration for 25 years.
