Top news photos from 2014 chosen
By China Daily | China Daily | Updated: 2015-02-13 07:58
Winners were announced in the 58th World Press Photo Contest, the world's largest annual press photography contest, on Thursday in Amsterdam. The 2015 contest drew 97,912 entries from 131 countries around the world, submitted by 5,692 press photographers, photojournalists and documentary photographers. An international jury of leading professionals in the field of photojournalism began judging the entries at the World Press Photo office in Amsterdam on Feb 1, headed by jury chair Michele McNally, director of photography and assistant managing editor of The New York Times. The 2015 Awards Days, an annual celebration of the prizewinners, will take place in Amsterdam on April 24 and 25. The prizewinning pictures are presented in an exhibition that travels year-round to about 100 cities in 45 countries, to start in Amsterdam in De Nieuwe Kerk on April 18. All photos provided by World Press Photo.
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Wei, a 19-year-old Chinese worker, stands next to Christmas decorations being dried in a factory where red powder used as coloring hovers in the air in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, on Dec 6. Contemporary Issues, 2nd Prize Singles / Chen Ronghui, China |
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