World Press Photo 2009

[Tamila]

1 - Anthony Suo, USA, picture of the Year 2008
Robert Cole, a police officer in Ohio is evicted in the room to make sure that after the eviction for nonpayment of mortgage residents actually left the house and that no more weapons. As a precaution, police stations go to the evicted house with weapons drawn, because here you can often find the vandals, squatters or drug addicts. Cases of deprivation of property rights for non-payment mortgages have early signs of the growing economic crisis in the United States.

"The strength of this photo in a contrast of opposites, in a double subtext. It looks like a classic frame from the conflict zone, although in fact people just evict for debts. Now the war in the literal sense of the word, comes to people in the house because that they can not pay their mortgages, "- said about the winning photo Marianne Golon, chairman of the jury.

2 - also Anthony Suo, USA, 2 bed /everyday life
Man in the street of the New York Stock Exchange March 14, the day when the indices bank Bear Stearns have dropped by about half.
3 - Jérôme Beaune, France, 2 place /art and entertainment
Anais (12 years) - a young dancer of the Paris School of Opera and Ballet.
4,5 - Kasper Kowalski, Poland, 2 place /Arts and Entertainment (series)
The daily cycle of activity on the beach of a small Polish spa at Vladislavovo, on the Baltic Sea
6 - Andre Vieira, Brazil, 3 bed /art and entertainment
Designer clothing Shunnoz Fiel - representative of a new generation of Angolan diazynerov and stylists. The period of peace after years of civil war, coupled with the money pouring into the industry from the rise in oil production, helped establish in Angola generation of young professionals interested in fashion.
7 - Thomas Gudzovati, Poland, 3 bed /sports essays
Young jockey standing beside his horse at the Naadam festival in Mongolia in July. Festival, rooted in the XII century and the era of Genghis Khan, including horse racing, shooting and wrestling. Before thousands of horses are selected for participation in different types of racing across the steppe. Because of low weight, as jockeys are usually chosen by children. It is believed that the child jockey is a guarantee that the races will test the qualities of the horse rather than rider.
8,9 - Nam Sang-Han, South Korea, 3 bed /single portraits novice sects of Tibetan Buddhism in a monastery in the Himalayas.
10 - Jérôme Beaune, France, 2 place /portraits
Actor, director, artist and photographer Dennis Hopper (72)