PICTURE OF YEAR
PICTURE OF YEAR
Yusuke Harada
Rebel fighters kneel down to pray on the road to Sirte from Misrata in the outskirts of Sadada, LIBYA. Many rebel fighters set up a base in the town of Sadada to prepare the military strategy for taking control of Sitre, Gadhafi's hometown and one of the former dictator's last bastions of support in the country. 20110912


Dette bildet fra Libya ble kåret til årets bilde i konkurransen PGB Photo Award 2012.

Japanske Yusuke Harada ble tildelt Picture of the Year i konkurransen PGB Photo Award 2012. Bildet er tatt i Libya under den arabiske våren og viser opprørere som kneler for å be på veien fra Sirte til Misrata. 33 år gamle Harada har fotografert flere kriser og konflikter verden over, men fokuserer på å dokumentere diskrimering og brudd på menneskerettigheter.

3000 fotografer fra 93 land deltok i årets utgave av konkurransen. Blant vinnerne av de ni kategoriene var britiske Anastasia Taylor-Lind, som gjestet Dok12 i februar, danske Mads Nissen som vant portrettkategorien med et bilde av Jens Stoltenberg og svenske Martin von Krogh.

Rémi Ochlik, som mistet livet på tragisk vis i Syria tidligere i år, fikk førstepris i kategorien Spot News Picture of the Year.

PGB Photo Award reklamerer med at de er konkurransen som gir tilbake. Hvert år doneres det penger til et formål valgt av vinnerfotografen. Les mer om konkurransen på www.thephotoaward.com

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General News

GENERAL NEWS 1st PRICE
GENERAL NEWS 1st PRICE
Mads Nissen/ Berlingske/ Panos Pictures
Hussein Saleh Hassan, age 52, is fatally wounded. He was hit in the head by a gunshot when he together with a group of local residents attacked and burned down the central police station in Tobruk on 17 February. This was one of the very first violent attacks performed by civilians during the Libyan revolution.


GENERAL NEWS 2nd PRICE
GENERAL NEWS 2nd PRICE
Damir Sagolj / Reuters
A picture of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung decorates a building in the capital Pyongyang early October 5, 2011.


GENERAL NEWS 3rd PRICE
GENERAL NEWS 3rd PRICE
Scott Typaldos
Two chained schizophrenic patients on the floor in large urine filled room, Ghana


Feature Picture of the Year

FEATURE 1st PRICE
FEATURE 1st PRICE
Anastasia Taylor-Lind / VII Photo Agency
Artak Petrosyan and his bride Armine Baghdasaryan sit at the main table during the evening reception in Khtsaberd village hall. The young couple will receive a wedding payment of approximately €575 (300,00 ad) as part of the government's “Birth Encouragement Program”. Khtsaberd village, Hadrut Region, Nagorno Karabakh, 16th July 2011.


FEATURE 2nd PRICE
FEATURE 2nd PRICE
Ed Kashi/VII
Mainly Russian and European tourists flock to the Kremlin Palace, which is part of a new style of Las Vegas like themed holiday resorts that have opened up along the Mediterranean coast in Antalya, Turkey on April 12, 2011.


FEATURE 3rd PRICE
FEATURE 3rd PRICE
Ilvy Njiokiktjien
CAROLINA / SOUTH AFRICA - Boys pose in army style under the stars on the last evening of their nine day camp. The kommandokorps camp is organized by self acclaimed 'Kolonel' Jooste, a South African white man who fought in the old apartheid army. He wants to put the white youth up against Nelson Mandela's culturally mixed 'rainbow nation'.


Spot News Picture of the Year

SPOT NEWS PICTURE OF YEAR 1ST PRICE
SPOT NEWS PICTURE OF YEAR 1ST PRICE
Remi Ochlik / IP3 PRESS
On august, 25, 2011 In Tripoli - Rebels fighters in Abu Slim neighborhood against the last resistance of the Gadaffi loyalist forces. They captured some african people supposed to be Gadaffi mercenaries and snippers 20110925, Tripoli, Libya


SPOT NEWS PICTURE OF YEAR 2nd PRICE
SPOT NEWS PICTURE OF YEAR 2nd PRICE
JACOB EHRBAHN / Politiken
The Egyptian Revolution 2011 - While Anti-Mubarak demonstrators defend their frontline barricades against pro-Mubarak demonstrators trying to enter theTahrir square., four men are shot and brought to an improvised first-aid station where doctors struggle to save their lives. Three of the four men die. Five days later, this young man's bloody shirt is exhibited at the first-aid station under the heading "Clothes of the Martyrs". The anti- Mubarak demonstrators are convinced that the hated police officers fired the shots. February 3, 2011.


Portrait Picture of the Year

PICTURE OF YEAR PORTRAIT 1st PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR PORTRAIT 1st PRICE
Mads Nissen
The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg portrayed after the funeral of his close friend 45-year-old Monica Elisabeth Bosei, also called 'Mother Utoya'. After the terrorist attack in Norway on July 22nd, Stoltenberg urged the world to face the hatred and racism with even more tolerance, democracy and love.


PICTURE OF YEAR PORTRAIT 2nd PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR PORTRAIT 2nd PRICE
Oliver Scarff / Getty Images
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 19: Allan and Dinah Procter, from Preston, holds their 20 month old White Wyandotte Bantam hen which won a 1st prize in its breed at the Poultry Club's 2011 National Show on November 19, 2011 in Stoneleigh, England. The Poultry Club's 2011 National Show takes place on November 19 and 20, 2011 culminating in the crowning of 'Gold Cup Supreme Champion' from all the birds entered into the competition. The Poultry Club was founded 1877, it was established to safeguard the interests of all pure and traditional breeds of poultry including chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.


PICTURE OF YEAR PORTRAIT 3rd PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR PORTRAIT 3rd PRICE
Sebastian Liste / Reportage by Getty Images
SALVADOR DE BAHIA, BRAZIL – FEBRUARY 5, 2011: Vanessa (13) reunited with her mum. Vanessa´s mother abandonated her when she was six years old. Few years later Vanessa started to prostitute herself to survive, on February 5, 2011 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This impoverished community took up residence in an old abandoned chocolate factory on the coast in Salvador de Bahia. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which is safer that the alternatives available to them. However they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally.


Nature Picture of the Year

PICTURE OF YEAR NEATURE  1st  PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR NEATURE 1st PRICE
Ivan Alvarado / REUTERS
Lightning bolts strike around the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain near southern Osorno city June 5, 2011. A volcano dormant for decades erupted in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic chain in south-central Chile, belching an ash cloud more than 6 miles (10 km) high that blew over the Andes mountain range.

PICTURE OF YEAR NATURE 2nd PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR NATURE 2nd PRICE
Kevin Frayer / AP
In this aerial photo taken Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, an Afghan shepherd directs his sheep through an opening in a mud wall as seen from a medevac helicopter of the U.S. Army's Task Force Shadow "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment near Mara in the volatile Helm and Province, Southern Afghanistan. "Helmand From Above"

PICTURE OF YEAR NATURE 3rd PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR NATURE 3rd PRICE
Elisabeth Ubbe
Nature doesn´t fit. It was never discovered why the hare was pressed into the wastepaperbasket. In the afternoon there was no trace of it anymore. But the children in the school nearby talked about it for a long time. 20110420, Nacka/Stockholm, Sweden


Sports Feature Picture of the Year

PICTURE OF YEAR SPORTSFEATURE 1ST PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR SPORTSFEATURE 1ST PRICE
Tomasz Gudzowaty, Yours Gallery/Fotoagentur Focus
Street boxing in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The ring near Viaducto Glicerio 11-09-06

PICTURE OF YEAR SPORT FEATURE  2nd PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR SPORT FEATURE 2nd PRICE
Adam Pretty/Getty Images
Competitors warm up ahead of the Synchronized Swimming Team Tech Final during Day Four of the 14th FINA World Championships at the Oriental Sports Center on July 19, 2011 in Shanghai, China.

PICTURE OF YEAR SPORT FEATURE  3rd PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR SPORT FEATURE 3rd PRICE
Jack Mikrut/ Dagens Industri
Douglas Roos, Martin Lidberg och Sedric Danielsson The founders and owners of the healthcamp in Rättvik Dalarna in Sweden. 20110526


Sports Action Picture of the Year

PICTURE OF YEAR SPORTS ACTION 1st PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR SPORTS ACTION 1st PRICE
Dylan Martinez/REUTERS
Manchester United's Wayne Rooney celebrates after scoring a goal during the first leg of their Champions League quarter final soccer match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in London April 6, 2011.

PICTURE OF YEAR SPORTS ACTION 1st PLACE
PICTURE OF YEAR SPORTS ACTION 1st PLACE
Adam Pretty/Getty Images
Vadim Kaptur and Timofei Hordeichik of Belarus compete in the Men's 10m Platform Synchro preliminary round during Day Two of the 14th FINA World Championships at the Oriental Sports Center on July 17, 2011 in Shanghai, China.

PICTURE OF YEAR SPORTS ACTION 3rd PRICE
PICTURE OF YEAR SPORTS ACTION 3rd PRICE
Tim Clayton / Freelance / Corbis
Alex Revell falls from his bike during the thrills and spills of the New Zealand Cyclocross Championships sponsored by AJ Hackett Bungy, held at Jardine Park, Queenstown, as part of the Queenstown WInter Festival. The men's event was won by Dan Warren from Hastings while Anja McDonald from Dunedin won the women's event. Queenstown, New Zealand, 2nd July 2011