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Category: Photographer of the Year

First Place
Daniel Berehulak
Getty Images Reportage for The New York Times

Second Place
Paul Hansen
Dagens Nyheter

Third Place
Daniel Rodrigues
Freelance

Award of Excellence
Michael Robinson Chavez
the Los Angeles Times

Award of Excellence
Rick Loomis
the Los Angeles Times

 
Award of Excellence
Rick Loomis
the Los Angeles Times


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"I am ready to kill," Younus Yamsa, 43, said. Once he was the head of a large family, with an expensive house and hundreds of cows. Now, many of his relatives are dead or missing; their house is destroyed and their cattle slaughtered. He said he tried to defend them with his bow and arrows. But the attackers had guns. They cut off his mother's head, he said, and burned his wife and two of his children to death in their home. He packed a bag of clothes and cooking pots to sell for money to transport the survivors out of the country. But the market was attacked with grenades. Yamsa was injured in both legs. He can't walk without crutches. "If God gives me the opportunity to get revenge, I will take it," he said. "Otherwise, I will tell the story to my children so they can avenge us."

 

 

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