2008 World Press Photo of the Year Winners
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A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition
Jury members said the strength of the photo by Anthony Suau for Time magazine was in its opposites - it looks like a classic war photograph, but is simply the eviction of people from a house.
Picture: REUTERS
The winner in the General News Singles category, by Brazilian photographer Luiz Vasconcelos, was another eviction scene showing a woman holding her naked child while being pushed away from her home by a line of riot police
Picture: REUTERS
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Carlos Cazalis, a photographer based in Mexico, has won the first prize of the Contemporary Issues Stories category with this photo of a homeless person in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Picture: REUTERS
Walter Astrada won first prize in the Spot News Singles category for his picture of a Kenyan boy screaming as he sees a policeman with a baton approaching the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi
Picture: AFP/GETTY
Carlos F Gutierrez has won the first prize of the Nature Singles category with this photo of Chaiten volcano eruption, Chile
Picture: REUTERS
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