World Press Photo of the year 2007

February 9, 2008 1:22 AM

World Press Photo of the year 2007. Category winners and runners up. (Some possibly NSFW)
posted by fearfulsymmetry (16 comments total)

These are great, thanks.
posted by MaryDellamorte at 1:42 AM on February 9, 2008

Yeah, are great and all accessible sans shitful flash interface
posted by mattoxic at 1:57 AM on February 9, 2008 [2 favorites]

These are fantastic. Thanks.
posted by Happy Dave at 2:25 AM on February 9, 2008

That was enough wtf and awesomeness for the whole day. Anyone has the backstory on the weird 19th century turkish schoolgirls?
posted by uandt at 2:26 AM on February 9, 2008

Paging Diane Arbus...
posted by maryh at 2:41 AM on February 9, 2008

this one is ... wow. powerful.
posted by lapolla at 4:18 AM on February 9, 2008

these are stunning, thanks for posting. This is extraordinary in so many ways (although there's a worrying, and totally inappropriate, Blazing Saddles thing going on).
posted by patricio at 4:51 AM on February 9, 2008

Weren't these posted before?
posted by delmoi at 5:18 AM on February 9, 2008

Wonderful post! Thanks!
posted by mikeo2 at 7:17 AM on February 9, 2008

You know your photo gallery is a piece of shit when it presents less background info than the EXIF data.

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    for (var i = 0; img = imgs.item(i); i++)
        img.onmousedown = img.onmousemove = img.onclick = null;
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posted by ryanrs at 8:12 AM on February 9, 2008

Heh, for a minute there I honestly thought the first linked photo was from Vietnam.
posted by pyrex at 9:09 AM on February 9, 2008

wow
posted by The Deej at 9:59 AM on February 9, 2008

The ACUs and MOLLE gear he's wearing tell me it's contemporary and not Vietnam, but I bet if we had a time machine and could go back to Cannae, we'd see expressions like that on some Romans' faces.
posted by pax digita at 11:49 AM on February 9, 2008

While there are plenty of powerful photos in there, let us not forget such amazing work as this.
posted by Green With You at 1:14 PM on February 9, 2008

The photog of the Bhutto shots, John Moore, narrated a NY Times slideshow on how they got taken.
posted by smackfu at 6:08 PM on February 9, 2008

der Spiegel has the backstory on the overall winner of the battle-weary soldier.
posted by Rumple at 11:26 PM on February 16, 2008