Hope for a New LifeSpot News, first prize singles August 28, 2015 A man passes a baby through the fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border in Röszke, Hungary, 28 August 2015. Warren Richardson "Warren Richardson is a freelance photojournalist currently working in Eastern Europe. Born in Australia in 1968, he is a self-taught photographer who (...)
"Victims lie in the rubble, on the day after the Rana Plaza building, which accommodated five garment factories, collapsed." FINAL EMBRACE 25 April 2013Savar, Bangladesh Victims lie in the rubble, on the day after the Rana Plaza building, which accommodated five garment factories, collapsed. The relationship between the two people is not known. In the days (...)
MASSACRE AT WESTGATE MALL 21 September 2013Nairobi, Kenya A woman and two children hide during an attack on the Westgate mall. They eventually escaped unharmed. On 21 September, masked gunmen opened fire at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall. The upmarket mall was popular among expats and the Kenyan elite. In a siege that lasted four days, at least (...)
BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING 15 April 2013Boston, USA Carlos Arrendondo (left) climbs over barricades on Boylston Street, to reach people injured by the first of two bombs that exploded near the finish line at the Boston Marathon, on 15 April. The bombs went off 12 seconds apart, killing three people and injuring at least 264. The winners had crossed the line some hours earlier, but (...)
REBELS ATTACK GOVERNMENT CHECKPOINT30 January 2013Damascus, Syria Two Free Syrian Army fighters take up position for an attack on the Ein Tarma checkpoint. Rebel fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) attacked a government checkpoint, in the Ein Tarma neighborhood, on 30 January. The battle for the suburbs of Damascus was considered crucial to both parties. In this incident, (...)
TYPHOON SURVIVORS18 November 2013Tolosa, Leyte, Philippines Survivors carry religious images, ten days after Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the central Philippines. One of the strongest typhoons ever recorded, Haiyan raged through 47 provinces, causing immense destruction. Over a million houses were damaged, half of them totally destroyed, and more than 4 million people were (...)
Siege of Aleppo18 October 2012Aleppo, Syria Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard in Aleppo’s Karm al-Jabal neighborhood, as light enters through a wall peppered by shrapnel. In July, the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) entered Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and commercial capital. Rebel-held neighborhoods, initially in southwest Aleppo and later throughout the city, became (...)
Collaborator20 November 2012Gaza City, Palestinian Territories Palestinians drag the dead body of a suspected collaborator with Israel through the streets of Gaza City, on 20 November. That week had seen heavy bombardment of Gaza by Israel, in what was known as Operation Pillar of Defense. The dead man was one of six alleged collaborators killed at a city intersection by masked men, (...)
Battle to Death17 October 2012Aleppo, Syria A Free Syrian Army fighter mourns the death of his brother, killed during clashes with government forces. The Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo was the scene of some of the bloodiest clashes in the ongoing uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Both government and opposition forces considered control of Aleppo to be (...)
interrogation31 July 2012Aleppo, Syria A man suspected of giving money to government informants is held at a school occupied by the dissident Free Syrian Army (FSA), in the northern city of Aleppo. He was one of two captives believed to be members of the pro-government Shabiha militia, who were held and interrogated for 48 hours before having the money that was on them confiscated. (...)