AP
wins seven prizes in the World Press Photo competition
NEW YORK -- The Associated Press has
won seven prizes in the highly-competitive World Press Photo
competition, including top honors in the spot news-stories
and general news-singles categories in the annual global awards
program.
Some 80,000 images were submitted by photographers from 122
countries for this year's awards program, the organizers said.
In all, 63 photographers from 25 nations won awards.
Photo coverage by AP's Ben Curtis, David Guttenfelder, Tomas
Munita, Rafiq Maqbool and Rodrigo Abd enabled the world's
oldest and largest newsgathering organization to make "an
excellent showing in the competition," said Santiago
Lyon, AP director of photography.
Curtis and Guttenfelder won first-place awards, Munita and
Guttenfelder captured second-place honors, and Maqbool, Abd
and Munita were cited for third-place prizes.
"That's a spectacular finish in a very, very tough competition,"
said AP Executive Editor Kathleen in congratulating the photographers,
whose coverage of the aftermath of the Pakistan earthquake,
election violence in Togo, a profile of Guatemalan gangs and
a look at Kabul soccer players earned the awards.
