An image of an emotionally and physically spent U.S. soldier in a bunker in Afghanistan by Britain's Tim Hetherington for Vanity Fair magazine won the top World Press Photo prize for news photography on Friday.
Judges described the photo as an image that shows "the exhaustion of a man -- and the exhaustion of a nation," adding people everywhere were tiring of the world's numerous conflicts.
"We're all connected to this. It's a picture of a man at the end of a line," said jury chairman Gary Knight, describing it as an "intelligent photograph".
"It represents the exhaustion I have and you may also have with the numerous conflicts in the world."
Prizes for photos in 2007 were awarded to 59 photographers of 23 nationalities.
Getty Images Inc won five awards, including top prize in the spot news singles and spot news stories categories for photos of the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, as well as a picture of dead mountain gorillas in the contemporary issues singles category.
John Moore's picture for Getty Images of Bhutto's assassination shows a hazy impression of the moment of the impact of the bomb, with people trying to flee the scene.
Full article from reuters.co.uk/
and see Tim Hetherington's - a Vanity Fair photographer based in Britain - photograph winning photograph here.
credits: Harro ten Wolde; Stephen Weeks
Read Tim Hetherington's biography at soros.org/ and see more of his pictures at timh-images.com/ and at mentalpicture.org/
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