World Press Photo, an independent non-profit organization founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1955, organizes the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest. Prizewinning photographs are assembled into a traveling exhibition that is visited by over two million people in some 45 countries worldwide.
This picture of US photographer Spencer Platt of Getty Images
has been selected World Press Photo of the Year 2006.
Young Lebanese drive through devastated neighborhood of South Beirut, 15 August
Young Lebanese drive through devastated neighborhood of South Beirut, 15 AugustJury chair Michele McNally of The New York Times says: "This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious." >More
