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Category: World Understanding Award

Winner
Jan Grarup
Freelance
"Somalia in transition"

Judges' Special Recognition
Ryan Spencer Reed
Independent
"Despite similarities to reality"

Finalist
Edu Ponces
RUIDO Photo
"Sala Negra. Daily violence in Central America"

Finalist
Paula Bronstein
Freelance for Getty Images
"Between Life and War: The Struggles of Afghan Women"

Finalist
Renée Byer
The Sacramento Bee
"Living on a Dollar a Day: The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor"

 
Judges' Special Recognition
Ryan Spencer Reed
Independent
 

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"Despite similarities to reality"

Soldiers in the tactical operations center watch live footage from aerial targeting assets from a drone of a moving vehicle with mounted large caliber machine gun. Consumed by what is affectionately referred to as ‘kill TV’, they anxiously await the moment that the truck, the presumed insurgent, and the weapon are to be destroyed by a Hellfire Missile, while begrudging the long passage of time for fear that the enemy will get away by driving into a town where the likelihood of collateral damage would be higher. The driver and his passenger managed to exit the vehicle shortly before the armament crashed to the ground reducing the truck to a blinding ball of fire on screen.

 

 

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