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World Press Awards are in...
February 16, 2006 - ZUMA Press content received two prestigious World Press Photo awards this year.
Daniel Beltra's powerful environmental story on one of the worst droughts ever recorded in the Amazon won third place honors in the World Press Nature Story category. The drought, which some scientists blame on global warming, has dried up large parts of the world's largest river killing tens of millions of fish, stranding hundreds of remote communities, spreading disease and economic hardship across the region.
Robert Knoth received Honorable Mention for his portrait of two children suffering the effects of a nuclear disaster that happened decades earlier. Thousands of other people suffer from a range of birth defects and diseases associated with radiation exposure.
Robert's winning portrait is part of a larger essay published in zReportage called Chernobyl: Once a Killer, Always a Killer.
Both stories were shot on assignment for Greenpeace International and are available for syndication via ZUMA Press.
To view more of this year's World Press Photo award-winners, please visit http://www.worldpressphoto.nl.
Captions:
Top: Riverboat trapped on a sand bank during one of the worst droughts ever recorded in the Amazon.
© DANIEL BELTRA/ZUMA Press
Bottom: Natasha, 12, left, has microcephaly. Vadim, 8, has a bone disease and is mentally retarded.
© ROBERT KNOTH/TCS/ZUMA Press
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