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The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a picture by Samuel Aranda from Spain as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. The picture shows a woman holding a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011. Samuel Aranda was working in Yemen on assignment for The New York Times. He is represented by Corbis Images.

Objective Reality Foundation presents the WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2011 exhibition in Ìîscow May 19th through July 1st. This travelling annual exhibition, unique in its kind, presents almost 200 works of the winners of the world’s most prestige annual photojournalism contest. World Press Photo’s final selection took place in Amsterdam in February 2012, it was the 55-rd time that the jury gathered together to commit their votes for the best photojournalistic works of the year. The show reflects the key events of 2011.

Through the involvement of Objective Reality Foundation over the past six years the World Press Photo exhibition tour in Russia has become an annual tradition.
 
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