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Michael Robinson Chavez
Los Angeles Times

"DECONSTRUCTING MUBARAK"

Second Place
Mads Nissen
Berlingske / Panos Pictures

"LIBYAN REVOLUTION"

Third Place
Hiroto Sekiguchi
Yomiuri Shimbun

"TSUNAMI AFTERMATH"

Award of Excellence
Craig F. Walker
The Denver Post

"OCCUPY DENVER"

Third Place
Hiroto Sekiguchi
Yomiuri Shimbun


"TSUNAMI AFTERMATH"

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Yoshikatsu Hiratsuka, 66, breaks down and grieves by rubble that the body of his mother, Minori, 93, is still buried 6 days after tsunami devastated the area in Onagawa, Miyagi Pref. Yoshikatsu and his mother was together when tsunami clashed their home, swallowed them. He survived but not his mother. Yoshikatsu keeps saying out "Sorry for keeping you left here, Sorry...Sorry" as body of his wife, Hiroko, 61, is also laid on frozen ground beside of the wreckage where Minori is still buried. His son Masaru, 38, still remains undiscovered.