World Press Photo Awards 2005

World Press Photos 2005 — AP/Arko Datta/Reuters

World Press Photo of the Year 2004 by Indian photographer Arko Datta of the Reuters news agency, showing an Indian woman in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India, Dec. 28, 2004, mourning the death of a relative who was killed in the Asian tsunami catastrophe.

First prize, Sports Action Singles category, by British photographer Bob Martin, Sports Illustrated, showing 200m freestyle heats at the Paralympic Games.

First prize, Sports Features Stories category, by Peruvian photographer Daniel Silva Yoshisato, Agence France Presse, showing the Churumbamba women's football team in Peru.

First prize, Sports Features Singles category, by Australian photographer Adam Pretty, Getty Images, showing the 200m freestyle heats at the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, 2004.

First prize, Portraits Stories category, by American photographer Adam Nadel, Polaris Images, showing a portrait in Darfur, Sudan.

First prize, Daily Life Stories category, by Danish photographer Jan Grarup, Politiken/Rapho for Geo Magazine, showing Roma in Slovakia.

First prize, Nature Stories category, by German photographer Carsten Peter, National Geographic Magazine, tornadoes.

First prize, Nature Singles category, by American photographer Jahi Chikwendiu, The Washington Post, showing a sandstorm in Chad.

Second prize, Arts and Entertainment Singles category, by Austrian photographer Alfred Seiland, The New York Times Magazine, showing hanging gardens.

Second prize, People in the News Singles, by Dutch photographer Paul Vreeker, Reuters, showing an Iranian immigrant protesting against Dutch asylum laws in 2004.

Second prize, Daily Life Singles category, by American photographer Krisanne Johnson for U.S. News & World Report, showing an Old German Baptist girl playing basketball in Ohio, U.S.A., 2004.

Second prize, Spot News Singles category, by Shaul Schwarz, Corbis, showing a young looter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec. 27, 2004.

Second prize, Contemporary Issues Singles category, by Bangladesh photographer Shoeb Faruquee, Drik Picture Library, showing a patient at a mental hospital in Bangladesh.

Second Prize, Portraits Singles category, by Dutch photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for the New York Times Magazine, showing actress Charlize Theron.

Second Prize, Sports Action Stories category, by American Donald Miralle Jr., Getty Images, showing Olympic Games.

Second prize, General News Stories category, by Italian photographer Paolo Pellegrin, Magnum Photos for Vanity Fair, showing people during Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's funeral in 2004.

Second Prize, Spot News Singles category, by Yuri Kozyrev for Time Magazine, showing bodies of victims killed in a school seizure as they lay in a morgue in Vladikavkaz, Russia. At least 338 hostages, including 156 children, were killed after terrorists seized a school building in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia. Sept. 4, 2004.

Second prize, General News Singles category, by American photographer David Robert Swanson of the Philiadelphia Inquirer showing a U.S. soldier in ambush in Iraq, April 6 2004.

Third prize, General News Singles category, by Associated Press photographer John Moore, showing a detainee in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, June 22, 2004.

Third prize, Arts and Entertainment Stories category, by Italian photographer Marcello Bonfanti, showing a Cuban drag queen.