By the numbers: 5, 247 Photographers, 124 Nationalities, 101, 254 pictures. Three hundred and fifty images by 57 photographers of 24 nationalities were awarded prizes in nine categories. To view the entire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest: 2012 World Press Photo. -- Paula Nelson (16 photos total)
2012 World Press Photo of the Year: A woman holds a wounded relative during protests against President Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 15, 2011. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)
- Adam Pretty
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- Android
- Betty Images
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- Jenny E. Ross
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- Olympic Games
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- Oslo
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- Paula Nelson
- Postal system
- Pyongyang
- Ras Lanuf
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- religion science society sports technology
- religion science society sports technology
- Saleh
- Samuel Aranda/The New York Times
- Sanaa
- Senegal
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- Stephanie Sinclair
- Stephanie Sinclair/VII Photo Agency
- Syria
- Tahani
- the New York Times
- Utoya
- Vincent Boisot/Riva Press
- Yemen
- Yolande Mancini
- Yuri Kozyrev
The vast devastation wrought by the earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, may only be matched by the destroyed lives left in their wake. Few survivors have been found, but families continue to search for their sons, daughters, wives, husbands and friends. Threats of a nuclear reactor meltdown and resulting disaster loom. -- Paula Nelson (51 photos total)
The rubble caused by an earthquake and tsunami fill the landscape in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
- Afghanistan
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- Aomori Prefecture
- Asia
- Associated Press
- buy food
- Disaster
- Earth
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- Environment
- Fukushima
- Fukushima Prefecture
- Geography
- Getty Images
- heavy machinery
- Higashimatsushima City
- Hiroshi Adachi
- iPhone
- Iwate
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- Iwate Prefecture
- Japan
- Japan
- Japan Air Self-Defense Force
- Jiji Press
- Jo Yong-Hak
- Lee Jae-Won
- May Day
- MIKE CLARKE
- Mississippi
- Mississippi River
- Miyagi
- Miyagi Prefecture
- Nagahama City
- Natori
- Natori City
- Nature
- New York Times
- New York Times
- Nippon Television
- Noboru Hashimoto
- NY Times Co.
- oil
- opened supermarket
- Osama bin Laden
- Otsuchi
- Ōtsuchi, Iwate
- Paula Nelson
- radiation
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- religion science society sports technology
- religion science society sports technology
- Rescue
- Reuters
- Saito
- Samuel Morse
- Sendai
- Shiga Prefecture
- The Yomiuri Shimbun
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- Toru Hanai
- TORU YAMANAKA
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- U.S. Air Force
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- Victory Day
- Watari
- Yoichi Hayashi
- Yomiuri Shimbun
- Yomiuri Shimbun
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- Yuriko Nakao