World Press Photo of the Year 2009 Announced
An Italian freelance photographer won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition with an image of a woman shouting her protest at the results of the Iranian presidential election from a Tehran rooftop at dusk.
Judges said Pietro Masturzo’s image was beautiful and captured the tension and emotion of the moment, as the protests were gathering strength.
“The photo shows the beginning of something, the beginning of a huge story,” jury chair Ayperi Karabuda Ecer said of Mr. Masturzo’s photo. “It touches you both visually and emotionally and my heart went out to it immediately.”
Jury member Guy Tillim said the shot managed to combine elements of conflict and everyday life — “the holy grail of photography.”
It is “a very beautiful image of an Iranian landscape which would be worth looking at in itself. But it also arouses our curiosity about the woman shouting — incorporating this moment, the importance of this historical event,” Mr. Tillim said.
Judges awarded prizes to 63 photographers from 23 countries in one of journalism’s most prestigious photo contests. The jury spent two weeks reviewing a record 101,960 photographs by 5,847 photographers from 128 different nations.
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