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The 2010 Pulitzer Prize

The photography awards for feature photography have gone to Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post for Ian Fisher : American Soldier .

Walker won the Pulitzer in feature photography “for his intimate portrait of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in Iraq, poignantly searching for meaning and manhood,” according to the prize’s Web site.

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German Photo Prize Goes to Stephen Shore

The 2010 Cultural Award of the German Society of Photography (DGPh – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie e.V.) is being awarded to Stephen Shore.

The prize has been awarded annually since 1959 in recognition of important contributors to the world of photography. Previous winners include Henri Cartier-Bresson, F.C. Gundlach, David Hockney, Man Ray, August Sander, and Wim Wenders.

The Awarding held on 11 September 2010 in the NRW Forum for Culture and Economy in Duesseldorf as a part of the Quadrennial 2010, the exhibition; “The Red VW Bus - Stephen Shore and the New Dusseldorf photography.

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Ikuru Kuwajima, a photojournalist based in Ukraine who has been named the winner of the Fujifilm Distinctions Awards 2009.

My personal favorites; Langjiazi - I was far away be beautiful, Pat Moss - Untitled and Toby Smith - Drax from his recent work Light After Dark. Smith has visited every Power Station in England, shooting at night using long exposures.

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2010 World Press Photo Winners Announced

The 53rd Annual World Press Photo of the Year has been awarded to Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo, for a photo of women shouting from a rooftop during protests after Iran’s contested presidential election won.

World Press Photo of the Year 2009

Das ist also das World Press Photo 2009 - Iranische Frauen stehen auf einem Dach in der Hauptstadt Teheran, sie protestieren laut schreiend in der Nacht gegen die Präsidentenwahl in Teheran.

Ein Foto des italienischen Fotografen Pietro Masturzo, entstand am 24. Juni 2009 kurz nach den umstrittenen Präsidentschaftswahlen.

See the stunning winning pictures from the World Press Photo Awards at the New York Times Lens blog: The Best in the World