The South African Jodi Bieber won first prize for portrait of an Afghan woman disfigured by the Taliban.
Pub on the front page of Time Magazine on August 1, 2010 , the photo of the South African Jodi Bieber won first prize at the World Press Photo Awards 2010 in category "Portraits" . It shows the Afghan Bibi Aisha, whose nose and ears were cut off by the Taliban who accused him of leaving the house of her husband.
Two photographers from Agence France-Presse was also rewarded for their reports, the French Olivier Laban-Mattei and Christophe Archambault getting respectively the first prize in the category "General Information" and the third prize in the category "Nature" . Olivier Laban-Mattei has been rewarded for a story in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake of January 2010 in Haiti. On one of his photos, taken at the morgue of a hospital in the city, a man throws the body of a child on a pile of corpses. Christophe Archambault has meanwhile been rewarded for a series of shots of the Bromo volcano on Java island, topped by a thick cloud of ash.
The jury also awarded a special mention to a series of twelve photographs taken by Chilean miners stranded for 69 days to 700 meters deep in the mine San Jose. The record number of 108,059 picture was submitted for the 2010 edition the jury, which was awarded in nine categories 56 photographers from 23 different nationalities.
Source: AFP
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