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2 unusual facts about World Press Photo


Santiago Lyon

Lyon taught at the 2010 Joop Swart Masterclass organized by the World Press Photo Foundation and was Chair of the Jury for the 2013 World Press Photo contest.

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In 2008, Anthony Suau, of USA, won the World Press Photo of the Year for the second time (the first was in 1987).


Lori Grinker

Grinker has been exhibited and published internationally, garnering many awards, including a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, an Open Society Institute Distribution grant, the Ernst Hass Grant, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, among others.

Lou Dematteis

In 1986, his photographs of downed U.S. soldier-of-fortune Eugene Hasenfus received international recognition, including a citation from the World Press Photo competition and inclusion in the New York Times and National Press Photographers Association's Pictures of the Year.

Sharon Wohlmuth

After being hired as the second woman photographer for The Philadelphia Inquirer Wohlmuth worked there for 20 years, winning multiple awards including the World Press Photo Competition Feature Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Best Feature Photograph, and was a Nieman Foundation for Journalism finalist at Harvard University.


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Paolo Pellegrin

In the same year he covered the aftermath of the Tsunami and hurricane Katrina and won two World Press Photo awards, one for his work on the funeral of Pope John Paul II, and another for the reportage on the backstage of fashion shows in NYC.

Peter Thomann

His photograph "The Soul of a Horse" won the 1st prize WORLD PRESS PHOTO AWARD 1963 and in 1996 entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most frequently copied fotograph.