Le gagnant du World Press Photo Contest 2016 dévoilé
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Le gagnant du World Press Photo Contest 2016 dévoilé

Depuis 1955, l’organisation World Press Photo récompense chaque année les photos de presse les plus réussies. Les critères sur lesquels se basent les juges comprennent tout autant la qualité graphique de l’image que la puissance du contexte où elle a été prise.

Antoine Bordeleau Photo : © Warren Richardson - Hope for a New Life

La tâche qui incombe aux juges de cette compétition est plus qu’ardue. Ils doivent départager, à travers des milliers de photos, les perles rares méritant le titre de photo de l’année dans leurs catégories respectives en plus de devoir nommer un grand gagnant toute catégorie confondue. Les membres du panel de sélection Francis Kohn, Tim Clayton, Michaela Herold, George Steinmetz, Narda van ‘t Veer, Vaughn Wallace, et Huang Wen ont délibéré et c’est le photographe australien Warren Richardson qui a remporté le prix de Photo de presse de l’année 2015 pour cette incroyable image d’un père passant son bébé à travers une barrière de barbelés à la frontière entre la Serbie et la Hongrie.

Migrants crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary.
© Warren Richardson, Australie, 2015, Hope for a New Life

Les juges ont également mis en ligne cette vidéo expliquant les raisons qui les ont poussés à choisir cette photo comme grande gagnante de ce prestigieux concours.

La sélection que doivent faire les juges ne se limite toutefois pas à une seule image, car il y a une multitude de catégories pour lesquelles ils doivent choisir les photographies les plus poignantes. Des nouvelles générales aux sports en passant par les questions contemporaines et la vie courante, ces sélections englobent toutes les facettes de la vie humaine et de la nature qu’un photographe peut capturer, certaines étant spécifiques à l’année en cours (la crise des réfugiés syriens en Europe, par exemple). Les juges ont dû cette année faire leurs choix parmi 82 951 photos prises par 5 775 photographes provenant de 128 pays différents. Les photos gagnantes font l’objet d’une exposition itinérante qui s’arrêtera à Montréal, du 31 août au 2 octobre 2016 au Marché Bonsecours.

Vous pouvez visionner la totalité des photographies lauréates via le site web de World Press Photo, mais nous avons ici sélectionné une collection des images les plus puissantes dans chacune des catégories.

Nouvelles générales
3. Hasaka, Syria - August 1, 2015 A doctor rubs ointment on the burns of Jacob, 16, in front of a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, center, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, at a YPG hospital compound on the outskirts of Hasaka. According to YPG fighters at the scene, Jacob is an ISIS fighter from Deir al-Zour and the only survivior from an ambush made by YPG fighters over a truck alleged to carry ISIS fighters on the outskirts of Hasaka. Six ISIS fighters died in the attack, 5 of them completely disfigured by the explosion.
© Mauricio Lima, Brésil, 2015 pour The New York Times
Nouvelles générales – Crise des réfugiés en europe
1 - Migrants and refugees arrived by boat in November near the village of Skala on the Greek island of Lesbos. Under Europe’s system of open internal borders, the island’s thinly patrolled, easily accessible coastline, within sight of the Turkish coast, might as well be the frontier of France or Germany or Sweden.
© Sergey Ponomarev, Russie, 2015, pour The New York Times
nouvelles générales – les enfants de douma
-- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2015 -- A wounded Syrian girl looks on at a make shift hospital in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, following shelling and air raids by Syrian government forces on August 22, 2015. At least 20 civilians and wounded or trapped 200 in Douma, a monitoring group said, just six days after regime air strikes killed more than 100 people and sparked international condemnation of one of the bloodiest government attacks in Syria's war. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY
© Abd Doumany, Syrie, 2015, pour Agence France-Presse
nouvelles générales – l’après-tremblement de terre au népal
8—Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, April 28, 2015: Flames rise from burning funeral pyres during the cremation of earthquake victims, at the Pashupatinath temple on the banks of Bagmati river on April 28, 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. On the 25th of April, just before noon local time, as farmers were out in fields and people at home or work, a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, killing over 8,000 people and injuring more than 21,000 according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Homes, buildings and temples in Kathmandu were destroyed in the 7.8 magnitude quake, which left over 2.8 million people homeless, but it was the mountainous districts away from the capital that were the hardest hit. Villagers pulled the bodies of their loved ones from the rubble by hand and the wails of grieving families echoed through the mountains, as mothers were left to bury their own children. Over the following weeks and months, villagers picked through ruins desperate to recover whatever personal possessions they could find and salvage any building materials that could be reused. Despite relief teams arriving from all over the world in the days after the quake hit, thousands of residents living in remote hillside villages were left to fend for themselves, as rescuers struggled to reach all those affected. Multiple aftershocks, widespread damage and fear kept tourists away from the country known for its searing Himalayan peaks, damaging a vital climbing and trekking industry and compounding the recovery effort in the face of a disaster from which the people of Nepal continue to battle to recover.
© Daniel Berehulak, Australie, 2015, pour The New York Times
faits divers
Migrants crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary.
© Warren Richardson, Australie, 2015, Hope for a New Life
Faits divers – conséquences des frappes aériennes en syrie
Smoke billows from a building early on October 30, 2015, following reported shelling by Syrian government forces in the rebel-controlled area of Douma, east of Damascus. AFP PHOTO / SAMEER AL-DOUMY
© Sameer Al-Doumy, Syrie, 2015, pour Agence France-Presse
faits divers – avalanche au pied de l’everest
A wall of rock, snow and debris roars toward Everest Base Camp in Nepal before slamming into to the southern part of the camp at midday on April 25, 2015, killing at least 22 people. The avalanche was triggered by a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people in the country. Rescue helicopters managed to reach the site about 18 hours after the avalanche as bad weather, aftershocks and fears of further avalanches rattled survivors. At the time of the disaster, the 5,364-meter-high Base Camp was teeming with hundreds of climbers and supporting teams who use the base to prepare their ascent to the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth.
© Roberto Schmidt, Allemagne, 2015, pour Agence France-Presse
faits divers – rupture de la frontière turque
Islamic State members ask people to go back to city center at the Turkish Akcakale crossing gate in Sanliurfa province, on June 13, 2015. Turkey said it was taking measures to limit the flow of Syrian refugees onto its territory after an influx of thousands more over the last days due to fighting between Kurds and jihadists. Under an "open-door" policy, Turkey has taken in 1.8 million Syrian refugees since the conflict in Syria erupted in 2011. AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC / AFP / BULENT KILIC
© Bulent Kilic, Turquie, 2015, pour Agence France-Presse
sports
BEAVER CREEK,COLORADO,USA,08.FEB.15 - ALPINE SKIING - FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, Birds of Prey, Alpine combined, downhill, men. Image shows Ondrej Bank (CZE). Ondrej Bank (CZE) crashed during the downhill race of the alpine combined at the FIS World Champioships 2015 in Beaver Creek. Keywords: crash. Photo: GEPA pictures/ Christian Walgram
© Christian Walgram, Autriche, 2015, pour GEPA pictures, Championnat du monde FIS
sports – hockey à Vetluga
Любительский хоккей в российской глубинке Матч между юниорскими любительскими командами города Ветлуга и посёлка Шаранга, город Ветлуга Нижегородской области
© Vladimir Pesnya, Russie, 2015, pour Sputnik
sports – les lutteurs gris-gris du sénégal
© Christian Bobst, Suisse, 2015
© Christian Bobst, Suisse, 2015
sports – le club de football des survivants de l’ébola
© Tara Todras-Whitehill, États-Unis, 2015, pour Vignette Interactive
© Tara Todras-Whitehill, États-Unis, 2015, pour Vignette Interactive
questions contemporaines
© Zhang Lei, Chine, 2015, pour Tianjin Daily, Haze in China
© Zhang Lei, Chine, 2015, pour Tianjin Daily, Haze in China
questions contemporaines – talibes, esclaves des temps modernes
Runaway talibes stand on the bank of Senegal river, in Saint Louis city, north of Senegal, May 20, 2015. Saint Louis is known as Talibe city. A city with small proportions compared to Dakar but with a large number of Talibes. Due to that many of them choose the streets instead of Daaras.
© Mário Cruz, Portugal, 2015
questions contemporaines – tous dans le même bateau
An overcrowded rubber dinghy sailed from the Libyan coast is apprached by the M.S.F. (Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders) search and rescue ship Bourbon Argos in the Mediterranean Sea, in international waters. The migrants on board the dinghy in distress have issued an emergency call and are waiting to be rescued. On the horizon, an offshore oil platform just off the Libyan coast. 26 August 2015. In 2015 the ever-increasing number of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea on unseaworthy vessels towards Europe led to an unprecedented crisis. Nearly 120 thousand people have reached Italy in the first 8 months of the year. While the European governments struggled to deal with the influx, the death toll in the Mediterranean reached record numbers. Early in May the international medical relief organization Médecins Sans Frontières (M.S.F.) joined in the search and rescue operations led in the Mediterranean Sea and launched three ships at different stages: the Phoenix (run by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station), the Bourbon Argos and Dignity.
© Francesco Zizola, Italie, 2015, pour Noor
vie courante
<> on December 10, 2015 in UNSPECIFIED, China.
© Kevin Frayer, Canada, 2015, pour Getty Images, China’s Coal Addiction
vie courante – l’avantage antarctique
5. ANTARCTICA - DECEMBER 03, 2015: Priest, Father Benjam Maltzev looks on in the Bell room, after a vigil at the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity on the 3rd of December, 2015 at the Bellingshausen Russian Antarctic research base in the Fildes Peninsula on King George Island, Antarctica. More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world. But today, an array of countries are rushing to assert greater influence in Antarctica. Russia built the continent’s first Orthodox church, pictured here, on a glacier-filled island with fjords and elephant seals. Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a linchpin in China’s plan to operate 5 bases on Antarctica. And India’s futuristic new Bharathi base resembles a spaceship. The continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve for decades to come, but many are looking toward the day those protective treaties expire — and exploring the strategic and commercial opportunities that exist right now.
© Daniel Berehulak, Australie, 2015, pour The New York Times
vie courante – l’assemblée de félicitée de dharma
<> on October 30, 2015 in UNSPECIFIED, China.
© Kevin Frayer, Canada, 2015, pour Getty Images
vie courante – journalisme citoyen dans les favelas brésiliennes
February 2015 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Cops patrolling the streets of Vila Aliança, a favela near Complexo do Alemao. After a militar police cop kill the mototaxi driver Diego da Costa Algavez (22) in the streets of the favela, several cars and high caliber armed cops invaded the streets in alert of a possible confrontation with the gangs and from the population.
© Sebastián Liste, Espagne, 2015, pour Noor
gens
PRESEVO, SERBIA - OCTOBER 7, 2015: A child refugee is covered with raincoat while she waits in line to get registered in Presevo refugee registration camp. Most of the refugees who crossed Serbia try to continue their route towards Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and other countries of the European Union.
© Matic Zorman, Slovénie, 2015, Waiting to Register
gens – exposition
"I was born just 5 months after the day of the explosion. I was a very sickly child and I remember feeling like something was wrong, not growing like a normal child. When I was born I was quickly admitted into the intensive care unit. I had cramps and I was very weak. Half of my childhood, I spent in hospital without receiving a diagnosis. I was treated for bronchitis, then pneumonia, and then neuroses."
© Kazuma Obara, Japon, 2015
gens – la traditon « la maya »
A 'Maya' girl sits in an altar during the traditional celebration of 'Las Mayas' on the streets of the small village of Colmenar Viejo, near Madrid, Spain Saturday, May 2, 2015. The festivity of 'Las Mayas' comes from pagan rites and dates from at least the medieval age, appearing in ancient documents. It takes place every year in the beginning of May and celebrates the arrival of the spring. A girl between 7 and 11years is chosen as 'Maya' and should sit still, serious, and quiet for a couple of hours in an altar on the street decorated with flowers and plants, afterwards they walk to the church with their family where they attend a ceremony. Not more than four, or five girls are chosen as a Maya each year.
© Daniel Ochoa de Olza, Espagne, 2015, pour The Associated Press
nature
Sunbather oblivious to the ominous shelf cloud approaching - on Bondi beach. A massive “cloud tsunami” looms over Sydney in a spectacular weather event seen only a few times a year. The enormous shelf cloud rolled in from the sea, turning the sky almost black and bringing violent thunderstorms in its wake.
© Rohan Kelly, Australia, 2015, Daily Telegraph, Storm Front on Bondi Beach
nature – temps durs pour les orangs-outans
"Rescue" of a five month old male baby orangutan from captivity in Sungai Besar village by the BKSDA (Department of Wildlife and Nature Conservation) staff and wildlife veteranarian Dr. Ayu from International Animal Rescue.
© Tim Laman, États-Unis, 2015
nature – guerre d’ivoire
ZAKOUMA NATIONAL PARK, CHAD: Rangers from a horse patrol group exhibit their riding skills as they return to base at Zakouma National Park, Chad after weeks on elephant patrol. The horse patrols are the old guard of Zakouma's rangers and have seen a good deal of conflict in their time in the park. Zakouma lost nearly 75% of its elephants in the decade before 2011 due to raids by Janajaweed and Sudanese poachers, many of them from the Sudanese military. The president of Chad, Idris Deby, is a big supporter of the elephant of Zakouma and of its elephants. The herds here until recently used to be as large as 1000 animals all moving together, severe poaching over the last decade saw that number decimated and now only around 10% of the number remains. Since 2011 however there has been control over poaching and only 3 elephant have been poached in the last 2 years. The credit for that lies with these rangers and the new management of the park, including nomad groups who are a vital part of intelligence gathering for Zakouma.
© Brent Stirton, Afrique du Sud, 2015, Getty Images pour National Geographic
nature – les caméléons sous pression
Furcifer balteatus, a juvenile in a recently burned landscape. Fires are often deadly for chameleons, because they can't move fast enough to escape them. The common practice of burning the landscape at the end of every dry season has affected many species of chameleons, and reduced their populations.
© Christian Ziegler, Germany, 2015, pour National Geographic
projets long-terme – aggressions sexuelle dans l’armée américaine
US Army Spc. Natasha Schuette, 21, was pressured not to report being assaulted by her drill sergeant during basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Though she was hazed by her assailant’s fellow drill instructors, she refused to back down and Staff Sgt. Louis Corral is now serving four years in prison for assaulting her and four other female trainees. The US Army rewarded Natasha for her courage to report her assault and the Sexual Harassment/ Assault Response & Prevention office distributed a training video featuring her story. She is now stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
© Nancy Borowick, États-Unis, 2015
projets long-terme – une vie dans la mort
Howie and Laurel Borowick sit next to the bathroom telephone as they hear the most recent news from their oncologist- good scans for both of them, and their respective tumors are shrinking. What if one got good news and one got bad? Do they celebrate for themselves and mourn for the other?Chappaqua, New York. March 2013.
© Nancy Borowick, États-Unis, 2015
projets long-terme – Corée du Nord : le culte de kim
A North Korean woman sits next to models of military weapons at a festival for the "Kimilsungia" and "Kimjongilia" flowers, named after the country's late leaders, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The exhibition was held to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War on July 27.
© David Guttenfelder, États-Unis, 2015