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  1. 2002

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    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Eric Grigorian
    • Nationality Armenia
    • Organization / Publication Polaris Images
    • Category World Press Photo of the Year
    • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
    • Date 23-06-2002
    • Country Iran
    • Place Qazvin
    • Caption A boy holds his dead father's trousers as he squats beside the spot where his father is to be buried, surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of an earthquake. The earthquake, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, struck on June 23. Dozens of villages were destroyed and hundreds of people killed across the province.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Patrick Andrade
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Gamma for Newsweek
    • Category Children's Award
    • Prize Individual awards
    • Date 15-02-2002
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Kabul
    • Caption A boy crouches beneath a truck to gather stray lumps of charcoal dropped during distribution by Red Cross workers. Twenty years of conflict had ravaged the country and made everyday life difficult, especially in Kabul and the densely populated south. Winter brought further difficulties to an already destitute population. Aid organizations implemented programs to help with reconstruction of the country, including rehabilitating the water supply and providing blankets, winter fuel and plastic sheeting.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Tomohisa Kato
    • Nationality Japan
    • Organization / Publication Kyodo News
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 08-05-2002
    • Country China
    • Place Shenyang
    • Caption Chinese police grapple with a North Korean woman at the gate to the Japanese consulate, as her daughter looks on. The family of five were attempting to seek political asylum at the consulate in May, in order to be able to move to South Korea. China is bound by treaty with North Korea to repatriate asylum seekers, who are regarded as traitors, but it has sometimes granted them passage to Seoul via third countries. This incident caused some diplomatic tension between the governments concerned. After being held by the Chinese authorities for two weeks, the family was released and allowed to go to South Korea.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Noël Quidu
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma for Paris Match
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-10-2002
    • Country Cote d'Ivoire
    • Caption A rebel fighter kills a man suspected of looting a fan and sports bag from an abandoned house outside the town of Bouaké. Unrest had broken out in Ivory Coast some weeks earlier, in September. A military mutiny among troops unhappy at being demobilized had developed into a full-scale national rebellion. Previously, Ivory Coast had been seen as a bulwark of stability in a conflict-torn region.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Justin Sutcliffe
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication The Sunday Telegraph / Images Sans Frontières
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 26-10-2002
    • Country Russia
    • Place Moscow
    • Caption A woman overwhelmed by gas is taken to hospital after the siege of the Palace of Culture theater. Fifty Chechen separatists including 18 women, had seized control of the theater during a performance. They held more than 600 Russian and foreign members of the audience hostage, demanding withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. After three days of negotiations with the captors, and following the killing of two hostages, Russian troops stormed the building, having permeated it with a knock-out gas. All the rebels and at least 90 hostages died during the operation, and hundreds were hospitalized with breathing difficulties. Authorities refused to identify the gas, so doctors did not know what antidotes to administer and the death toll continued to rise.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Georges Gobet
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 19-09-2002
    • Country Cote d'Ivoire
    • Place Abidjan
    • Caption Close to the camp where the military mutiny began, soldiers constrain residents on the first day of the uprising. The military uprising broadened to encompass others opposed to the government of President Laurent Gbagbo. The mutinous soldiers were joined by northern Muslims, who voiced discontent at what they saw as government discrimination against them. New laws prevented Ivorians with foreign backgrounds from voting, and barred opposition leader Alassanne Ouattara, a northern Muslim, from standing in presidential elections, as it was claimed he was born in Burkina Faso. After the first day of fighting in the original uprising, the mutineers were in control of the northern part of the country, but were later driven out of Abidjan in the south. As the conflict spread, it grew to encompass a number of different rebel groups. Some reports indicated that fighters from other west-African wars were joining the rebels. France, the former colonial power, later attempted to broker a settlement between government and rebels, and to monitor a cease fire.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Ilkka Uimonen
    • Nationality Finland
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Newsweek
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 01-03-2002
    • Place Nablus, West Bank
    • Caption Backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, Israeli troops launched an attack on the Balata Refugee Camp. Nine Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed, and more than 90 Palestinians were wounded.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Hector Emanuel
    • Nationality Peru
    • Organization / Publication Grazia Neri
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-03-2002
    • Country Colombia
    • Place Caqueta
    • Caption Civilians held at a guerilla roadblock are caught in crossfire when government troops arrive on the scene. The guerillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) form the main left-wing rebel group in the country's 39-year-old civil war. In February, Colombian president Andres Pastrana had ended three years of peace talks with FARC, and government troops had moved to retake the former safe haven, an area officially given over to the FARC during the peace process. The FARC retaliated by launching attacks against urban targets and disrupting infrastructure. Roadblocks such as this one, on the main highway out of the de facto FARC capital San Vicente del Caguán, continued.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Antonin Kratochvil
    • Nationality Czech Republic
    • Organization / Publication VII for The New York Times Magazine
    • Category General News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-05-2002
    • Country Burma (Myanmar)
    • Place Muse
    • Caption In Burmese prisons inmates sit in leg irons in a labyrinth of wooden cages, forbidden to move from the lotus position. Burma briefly toppled Afghanistan as the globally dominant producer of opium when Afghan production dropped as a result of US military operations against the Taliban in 2001. The international community blamed the Burmese military regime and former rebels supported by the government for the spiraling drug traffic. But in January the authorities announced a crack down, handing out harsh penalties to drug runners.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Vladimir Pirogov
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Moya Stolitsa / Reuters
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 15-11-2002
    • Country Kyrgyzstan
    • Place Bishkek
    • Caption A protestor is carried away by police. The demonstrators were calling for the impeachment of Askar Akaev, president of Kyrgyzstan. They blamed the government for taking no action against officials considered responsible for fatal shootings at an earlier demonstration. The march began at a town 20km from Bishkek, but was halted at the city limits. Police removed demonstrators to buses. They were taken to jail, and sent home a few days later.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Patrick Andrade
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Gamma for Newsweek
    • Category General News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 15-02-2002
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Kabul
    • Caption A boy crouches beneath a truck to gather stray lumps of charcoal dropped during distribution by Red Cross workers. Twenty years of conflict had ravaged the country and made everyday life difficult, especially in Kabul and the densely populated south. Winter brought further difficulties to an already destitute population. Aid organizations implemented programs to help with reconstruction of the country, including rehabilitating the water supply and providing blankets, winter fuel and plastic sheeting.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Eric Grigorian
    • Nationality Armenia
    • Organization / Publication Polaris Images
    • Category General News
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 23-06-2002
    • Country Iran
    • Place Qazvin
    • Caption A boy holds his dead father's trousers as he squats beside the spot where his father is to be buried, surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of the earthquake. The earthquake, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, struck on June 23. Dozens of villages were destroyed and hundreds of people killed across the province.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Jan Dago
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos / Alexia Foundation
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-12-2001
    • Country Sierra Leone
    • Caption Members of former rival factions, now doing military service together, relax at the Bemguema training camp. A long-running war in Sierra Leone finally came to an end in the first months of 2002 as the UN, British armed forces, and government troops edged clashing factions towards a peace agreement. The UN supervised rebel disarmament, and democratic elections were held in May. The struggle for control of diamond mining and other natural resources had been a source of the conflict.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Olivier Mirguet
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication for Le Monde 2
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-05-2002
    • Country North Korea
    • Place Pyongyang
    • Caption A billboard depicting Mount Paektu, the legendary ancestral home of the Korean people and the present North Korean leader's official birthplace. There is no advertising in North Korea, but the government does use billboards in its own campaigns. After the Korean War, the then North Korean president Kim Il-sung introduced a socialist philosophy of Juche, or militant self-reliance. For decades North Korea was one of the world's most secretive societies, but in recent years relations with South relations were dealt a blow in late 2002 during controversy surrounding North Korea's alleged nuclear weapons program. Talks about re-opening road and rail links with South Korea stalled.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Ami Vitale
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Getty Images
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 01-03-2002
    • Country India
    • Place Ahmadabad, Gujarat
    • Caption An ox walks through streets ravaged by riots. In February, the city was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Larry Towell
    • Nationality Canada
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 00-05-2002
    • Place Jenin, West Bank
    • Caption May 3-5. The invasion of Jenin refugee camp by the Israeli defense force in April was on a scale surpassing most other operations the Israelis had carried out since the rekindling of the intifada in September 2000. Many homes were bulldozed, or scarred by shrapnel. Others were scorched by incendiary bombs that left household goods melted and charred. Over 140 houses were demolished and more than a quarter of the 14,000 Palestinians estimated to be living in the camp were left homeless.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Scott Lewis
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The News & Observer
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 02-05-2002
    • Place Ramallah, West Bank
    • Caption Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Authority Chairman, is driven away under security from his compound at the Mukatah. Israeli military forces had held him there under siege since late March. A deal exchanging prisoners for Arafat's freedom had been made between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government the night before. The siege marked the start of Operation Defensive Shield, which had the stated aim of putting an end to Palestinian suicide bombing. During the ensuing operation a number of West Bank cities were occupied. Israeli forces again besieged the compound on September 19, and blew up most of the complex, except for Arafat's immediate offices.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Jan Grarup
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Politiken / Rapho
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-06-2002
    • Country Sierra Leone
    • Caption Liberian refugees wait for transit permits to enter Sierra Leone and travel to safe camps away from the border region. They were fleeing Liberia during a civil war between rebel forces and the government of President Charles Taylor. Intense fighting in the border area led to some 8,500 people fleeing to Sierra Leone in late June. They included both Liberians and former Sierra Leonean refugees returning home after years of asylum in Liberia. Aid organizations struggled to cope with the influ, which included many who did not acquire permits and entered the country illegally.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Pablo Martinez Monsivais
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 07-05-2002
    • Country USA
    • Place Washington DC
    • Caption US Secretary of State Colin Powell receives a pat on the cheek from National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, in a rare off-guard moment in the Oval Office at the White House. They were attending face-to-face talks between President George W. Bush and the Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon. The meeting lasted more than an hour, but failed to bridge differences on major Middle East issues, such as the formation of a separate Palestinian state.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Carolyn Cole
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Los Angeles Times
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 03-05-2002
    • Place Bethlehem, West Bank
    • Caption Israeli military forces occupied the city of Bethlehem on April 2, as part of Operation Defensive Shield. Palestinian militants, civilians and Palestinian police officers, sought refuge in the Church of the Nativity, which is built over the spot revered by Christians as the birthplace of Christ. The militants included men accused by Israel of direct involvement with terrorism, and a stand-off ensued which lasted for 39 days. Israeli snipers shot and killed eight men inside the compound before a settlement was reached in which 13 militants were exiled to Europe and 26 others were sent to the Gaza strip. The remaining people were freed.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Bruno Stevens
    • Nationality Belgium
    • Organization / Publication for Newsweek
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-03-2002
    • Country India
    • Place Ahmedabad, Gujarat
    • Caption Tension between Hindus and Muslims, a minority who form ten per cent of Gujarat's 50 million population, erupted in riots in the first part of the year. Communal violence has been spreading throughout the Indian state for decades, as the decline of the moderate Congress party led to the growth in popularity of Hindu nationalist political parties, which in turn opened the way to extreme nationalist groups and Muslim fundamentalism. In Ahmadabad, Hindus ransacked Muslim homes and businesses in reprisal for an earlier attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims. Police were accused of not intervening effectively.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Peter Dench
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Independent Photographers Group
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-06-2001
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Epsom
    • Caption From festivals and picnics to pubs and private parties, alcohol is an integral part of British life. In November the government announced plans to end the long-standing law requiring pubs to close at 11pm. Proposed new licensing laws will allow 24-hour opening, yet will introduce a range of conditions to reduce anti-social behavior.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Brent Stirton
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication Getty Images / RPM for UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 27-09-2002
    • Country Sierra Leone
    • Place Kono
    • Caption A twelve-year-old former 'bushwife' in Sierra Leone. She was ten when RUF rebels abducted her. The soldiers used children and young women as porters, cooks and sex slaves, hence the term 'bushwife'. The scars on this girl's body are as a result of burns made by caustic soda. She was caught trying to escape and tortured as an example to other abductees. The long-running conflict in Sierra Leone finally came to an end in the first months of 2002, leaving many thousands of deeply traumatized women. With very few counseling services available, the women began to form their own groups to address their experiences.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Lars Krabbe
    • Nationality Denmark
    • Organization / Publication Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 24-09-2002
    • Country Denmark
    • Place Copenhagen
    • Caption Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime minister, relaxes during a break at the Asian-European summit. The billionaire businessman and media magnate had shrugged off corruption allegations to win the premier's post the previous year. The aim of the conference was to bring together the 15 European Union member states with ten prominent Asian countries, in order to strengthen political, cultural and economic ties.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Bruce Davidson
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos for Newsweek
    • Category Portraits
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 01-05-2002
    • Country USA
    • Place New York
    • Caption Actor Al Pacino at the National Arts Club in Manhattan, his hair cropped and bleached for the role of Roy Cohn in the film adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, 'Angels in America'. The role also required him to go on a strict diet.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer George Georgiou
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Panos Pictures
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-04-2002
    • Country Serbia
    • Place Niska Banja
    • Caption A nurse relaxes in the reception room of a clinic in the spa town. Three years after the cease-fire in Serbia, the people in the region still suffer economic hardship and await further international aid. A perception that they have been betrayed by the West is growing, leading to a sense of isolation. Disillusionment that democracy is not producing the desired results appeared to express itself in voter apathy. Serbian presidential elections in October failed, and moved the country towards a political crisis. In February 2003 parliament voted to dissolve a 74-year-old federation, finally consigning the name 'Yugoslavia' to history. The federation was replaced by the two republics of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro, which share a common foreign and defense policy, but are otherwise independent.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Brent Stirton
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication Getty Images / RPM for Royal Geographic Society / Le Monde 2
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-01-2002
    • Country South Africa
    • Place Eastern Cape
    • Caption January 1-5. Camaraderie and mutual support are reinforced by life in a communal hut. Boys belonging to the Xhosa ethnic group in South Africa are expected to undergo a circumcision ritual to mark the transition to manhood. Thousands of young men from all over the country, many of them leaving their city lives, attend circumcision schools such as this one. They are circumcised soon after arrival, and spend the next three to four weeks in seclusion with fellow initiates, learning Xhosa history and what is expected of them as an adult member of the tribe. A boy's stoicism during the ritual is considered an important part of his passage into adulthood. The ceremony also aims to instill a sense of heritage and tribal tradition, and village elders give the boys daily lessons through song and spoken word. At the end of the ceremony the boys attend a ritual bathing and are welcomed back into the Xhosa tribe as men. The ceremony is a highly private affair. The photographer was granted special access to this one by the king of the Xhosa people.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Kristen Ashburn
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category Portraits stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-01-2001
    • Country Zimbabwe
    • Place Chivu
    • Caption In 2002 Sub-Saharan Africa was home to an estimated 29.4 million people living with HIV/Aids. There were approximately 3.5 million new infections in 2002. Zimbabwe, one of most severely affected countries, had a national adult HIV prevalence of 33.7 per cent. Much of the support for people living with HIV, or who are ill with or bereaved by Aids, comes from within family and community groups.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Robert Boguslawski & Tomasz Gudzowaty
    • Organization / Publication TGP / Focus
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 2002
    • Country China
    • Place Henan province
    • Caption Monks practice China's best-known traditional 'wushu' (war art) at a Shaolin temple. Like many other oriental martial arts, Shaolin Kung Fu demands a rigorous combination of mental prowess and physical strength. Its 18 basic positions are inspired by the movement and agility of animals.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Tim Clayton
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Sydney Morning Herald
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-07-2002
    • Country New Zealand
    • Place Auckland
    • Caption A shower of late-afternoon rain drenches Papua New Guinea goalkeeper Tapas Posman, as he kicks the ball clear during a match against New Zealand as part of the Oceania Nations Cup Championships. His team lost the match nine goals to one.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer David Burnett
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images for Salt Lake City Olympic Committee
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-02-2002
    • Country USA
    • Place Salt Lake City
    • Caption Michael Uhrmann (Germany) prepares for the K120 Individual Ski Jumping event at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics. Athletes must have a strong mental grasp of how aerodynamics affects their flight, and the physical control to keep their bodies rigid and parallel to the skis.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Roberto Schmidt
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Agence France-Presse
    • Category Sports
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 30-06 2002
    • Country Japan
    • Place Yokohama
    • Caption Midfielder Ronaldinho (Brazil) runs with the ball ahead of Oliver Neuville (Germany) during the final match of the FIFA World Cup. The Brazilian team became world champions, winning the match two goals to nil.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Balazs Gardi
    • Nationality Hungary
    • Organization / Publication Népszabadsag
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-11-2002
    • Country Hungary
    • Place Debrecen
    • Caption November 20-24. The hand of Vitalij Valinchuk (Bulgaria) at the 36th World Gymnastics Championships. Gymnastic success depends on a perfect grip, both physically and mentally.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Robert Boguslawski & Tomasz Gudzowaty
    • Organization / Publication TGP / Focus for PKN Orlen
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 2002
    • Country China
    • Place Henan
    • Caption July 14 - August 5. Monks of the Shaolin temple now teach their particular form of Kung Fu ('wushu', or war art) in schools, and a large martial arts academy has opened beside their temple in response to growing public interest in the tradition. Since 1990 wushu has been an official medal event in the Asian Games, and there is a bid for it to be included in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Two other martial arts, taekwondo and judo, already feature in the Olympics.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Andrew Buurman
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Eyevine
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 25-12-2002
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place London
    • Caption Participants line up for the start of the Peter Pan Cup, a 100-yard race swum every Christmas morning. This annual highlight is named after a trophy presented in 1903 by J.M. Barrie, author of 'Peter Pan'. Members of the Serpentine Swimming Club meet every Saturday morning, regardless of weather conditions, for a dip in the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park. If the lake has frozen over, they break a hole in the ice, and then go for a swim. The club was founded in 1864 and includes members from all walks of life and levels of experience, ranging from people in their twenties to those in their eighties.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Dan Winters
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication for The New York Times Magazine
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 02-11-2002
    • Country USA
    • Place Los Angeles, California
    • Caption Leonardo DiCaprio starred in two major films in 2002. Martin Scorsese's 'Gangs of New York' and Steven Spielberg's 'Catch Me if You Can' opened within five days of each other at the end of the year. In the first, set in 1860s New York, DiCaprio plays a young Irish man out to avenge the death of his father. The second is based on the story of a real-life teenage con artist. After the hype surrounding Titanic in 1997, DiCaprio appeared to slip from public favor and critical esteem, and for a while took something of a background role. Appearing in two major films, released so close together, shot him back into the limelight.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Emanuele Scorcelletti
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-05-2002
    • Country France
    • Place Cannes
    • Caption US actress Sharon Stone puts on a show for photographers. She was at the French coastal resort as a jury member for the Cannes Film Festival. During the day she would judge films with jury members, and in the evening attend public screenings, such as the one depicted here.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Paolo Porto
    • Nationality Italy
    • Organization / Publication for Thor Productions
    • Category Arts and Entertainment
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-02-2002
    • Country Italy
    • Place Rome
    • Caption Ines Cera of the Belgian dance troupe Compagnie Thor improvises in the studio.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Peter Bialobrzeski
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Laif Photos & Reportagen for Geo
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 2001
    • Country Hong Kong
    • Caption Neon Tigers. Asian cityscapes have undergone radical change in recent years.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Alexandra Boulat
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication VII for Paris Match
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-01-2002
    • Country France
    • Place Paris
    • Caption At his studio on the Avenue Marceau, Yves Saint Laurent assesses one of the gowns to be presented at his last show. The veteran French designer closed his offices after 40 years as a leader on the fashion scene. He gave his final haute couture show at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in January.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Fernando Moleres
    • Nationality Spain
    • Category Arts and Entertainment stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 00-08-2002
    • Country USA
    • Place Black Rock Desert, Nevada
    • Caption A record 29,000 people from 20 different countries attended the annual Burning Man festival. Billed as a week-long celebration of art, counterculture and radical self-expression, the festival began in 1986 in San Francisco, but in 1990 moved to its present location. It culminates with the ceremonial torching of a gigantic wooden statue of a man.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Matias Costa
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Agence Vu / Grazia Neri
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-06-2002
    • Country Spain
    • Place Madrid
    • Caption A premature baby, born after six months of pregnancy, is treated in an incubator at the Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Sarah Leen
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication for National Geographic
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-04-2002
    • Country USA
    • Place Washington DC
    • Caption A silicone mask of the face of Cassandra Wheatley captures the texture and appearance of real skin. It is being held by the model herself, and was made by the British firm Hybrid Enterprises. She sat immobile for 40 minutes while technicians painted silicone material on to her face, then covered it in plaster to make a mold. A second, flexible, mold was made over this cast. The two surfaces were separated and liquid, flesh-toned silicone injected between them. Peeling away the flexible mold revealed the final mask. False hair was applied using hypodermic syringes. This technology is primarily used to create prosthetics for the film industry, but is also being considered for medical applications.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Qi Xiaolong
    • Nationality China
    • Organization / Publication Tianjin Daily
    • Category Science & Technology
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 2002
    • Country China
    • Place Tianjin
    • Caption A patient is treated using acupuncture at the Ai Min Weight Reduction Clinic. The clinic, which is known for its high success rate, uses a synthesis of traditional Chinese medicine, dietary programs and exercise to achieve weight loss. Acupuncture is officially accepted as a technique for weight reduction in China, but is not common because the treatments are more time-consuming than other methods.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Peter Essick
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 05-04-2001
    • Country USA
    • Place Idaho
    • Caption Spent nuclear reactor fuel is kept sealed in steel cylinders behind glass walls, at a government facility. A long-awaited cleanup is underway at 114 of the US's nuclear facilities. The nuclear age has produced 52,000 tons of spent fuel from commercial, military and research nuclear reactors, as well as some 91 million gallons of waste from plutonium processing - both are classified as high-level waste, the most dangerously radioactive kind. Radioactivity can last for millions of years. Depleted uranium, contaminated tools, and plutonium itself are among other products of the nuclear industry requiring safe storage. High-level waste in the USA is accumulating at a rate of more than 2,000 tons a year. In addition to waste storage, nuclear reactors must be decommissioned and contaminated soil and groundwater cleaned up.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer David I. Gross
    • Nationality USA
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 13-06-2002
    • Place Pristina, Kosovo
    • Caption Relatives of the missing protest for action outside parliament. Some 3,800 people are still missing in relation to the former armed conflict in Kosovo. Bereft families continue to seek information about the fate of their relatives. Forensic scientists helping to identify remains are hindered by the fact that many corpses are incomplete, and often the remains of a number of people are buried together.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Witold Krassowski
    • Nationality Poland
    • Organization / Publication Network Photographers for National Geographic
    • Category Science & Technology stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 2002
    • Country Poland
    • Caption May-June. A driver tops up an OL-49 locomotive with oil before a run. The locomotives that ply the route from Wolsztyn to Poznan in western Poland form one of the last scheduled steam-train services in Europe. Huge OL-49 engines, more than half a century old, consume up to 18,000 liters of water, three tons of coal, and eight liters of oil on the 180-kilometer round trip. It takes one-and-a-half hours for the drivers to ready the train for the journey, stoking up the boiler to build up steam.
    • Year 2002
    • Photographer Antonin Kratochvil
    • Nationality Czech Republic
    • Organization / Publication VII for Discover
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-02-2002
    • Country DR Congo
    • Place Kabo
    • Caption A woman sells 'bushmeat' at a logging village on the fringes of the Ndoki national reserve. Animals hunted for bushmeat include antelope, crocodiles, elephant and primates. Over a million tons of wildlife, the equivalent of 4 million cattle, are killed annually in Central Africa alone, seriously depleting stocks of some species. Poorer rural peoples in the Congo Basin have traditionally relied on wildlife for between 60 per cent and 80 per cent of their protein. But in recent years hunting for bushmeat has accelerated beyond sustainable levels, as demand from cities and logging settlements has grown. Illegal commercial hunting has burgeoned, threatening a number of animal populations in the area. Species with slow reproductive patterns, such as gorillas and elephants, are especially threatened as they are often killed before reaching maturity.
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