AP Photographer Wins World Press Photo [View All]

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World Press Photo of the year 2003 and first prize People in the News singles category by French photographer Jean-Marc Bouju of The Associated Press, showing an Iraqi man comforting his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POW's in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites), march 31, 2003. (AP/Jean-Marc Bouju)

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A picture of a hooded Iraqi war prisoner holding his 4-year-old son at a U.S. detention camp, by Associated Press Photographer Jean-Marc Bouju, won the World Press Photo of the Year award Friday.


The winning photo, made on March 31 in Najaf, was selected from a record of more than 63,000 images by 4,176 photographers from 124 countries.


In 2003, there was also a record 81 percent of entries taken with digital cameras, as was the winning photo.

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