The World Press Photo 2011 has been hotly contested, with more than 5,691 photographers from 100 different nationalities and 108,059 images sent. It has been over 1 week since last Friday proclaimed winning photo published in the New York Times Spanish Samuel Aranda, a photo where you can see a woman holding a dying relative in Yemen. Aranda will be along with the prize, 10,000 € and a digital camera with a lot of lenses and accessories last generation.

First prize in the category of ‘General News’. Egyptian demonstrators protest in Liberation Square in Cairo, after hearing a speech by Mubarak on February 10, 2011. The image of Magnum photographer Alex Majoli, was published in Newsweek.

Publication of Time magazine and winner in the category of ‘News of The Individual’. Libyan rebels in Ras Lanuf, Libya, while fighting against the forces of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Photo by Yuri Kozyrev.

Winning photo to the category ‘Daily Living Single’. Displays the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung, as decoration of a building in the capital Pyongyang. Photo by Damir Sagolj.

Award winning photo ‘Contemporary Issues Single’. It shows Mary, addicted to drugs and sex worker in a room he rents for his work in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine. Photo by Brent Stirton.

Publication of the magazine ‘National Geographic’ award-winning ‘Stories Contemporary Photographic Sequence’. Two girls in Yemen, when they were only married 6 years and men 25. Stepahnie Stock Sinclair.

Award winning photo in the category” People in the News.” Nozomi Sabanai, along with sister, watching catamaran was launched by the tsunami in Otsuchi city, Iwate prefecture, Japan. Photo Yasuyoshi Chiba.

Award winning photo “Nature Individual ‘. A polar bear tries to climb the face of a cliff overlooking the ocean in Ostrova Oranskie north of Russia. Photo of Jenny E. Ross.

Photo winner of the category ‘Entertainment Individual’. The soldier Ben Vandandaigue Canadian Forces plays drums on Forward Operating Base Sperwan Ghar, overlooking the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Photo by David Goldman.
