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Amsterdam : Netherlands | Feb 12, 2011 at 11:52 AM PST
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Here are sets of amazing photographs from the winners and contenders of 2010 World Press Photo Awards. South African photographer Jodi Bieber is the overall winner, also won first place award for her haunting portrait of a brutally mutilated Afghan girl. The 44-year-old freelance photo-journalist will receive a cash prize of €10,000 in a ceremony later this year. The photograph of the 18-year-old Bibi Aisha, who was rescued by the U.S. military and now lives in America awaiting reconstructive surgery won the overall top prized World Press Photo award for 2010 which was also featured on the cover of August's TIME magazine.

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Peter Lakatos, from Hungary, MTI, won 1st Prize Singles Spot News for this picture of a suicide jumper on fire in Budapest
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  • Taxis waiting at a railway crossing in Calcutta were taken by Martin Roemers, a Panos Pictures photographer based in the Netherlands, winning him 1st Prize Daily Life Stories category

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