The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) and OnAsia have unveiled the winners of the annual FCCT/OnAsia Photojournalism Contest. The competition was the largest in its six-year history, attracting submissions from more than 375 photographers, a record, and over 6,000 images. Judges selected winners in four categories: Spot News, Feature Photography, Migration (a special category sponsored by the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand) and Photo Essay. In addition, the judges selected a Photographer of the Year, the contest’s top prize.
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In Papua New Guinea, Rasta was accused of being a sorcerer after the death of a young man in 2003. During the funeral, a crowd surrounded Rasta and began to beat her, strangling her with a rope and wielding axes, bush knives and wooden sticks. (Photographer of the Year: Photo Essay by Vlad Sokhin)
The Dani people populate the Baliem Valley in West Papua, Indonesia, and in the past lived in a Stone Age fashion, with many practicing cannibalism. Asike Halu, 67, poses near the ATM machine of the BRI bank in Wamena town. Asike makes money from tourists, allowing them taking photos of him for 50 cents to $1. (Photographer of the Year: Photo Essay by Vlad Sokhin)
A day labourer takes a drink from a bottle while working in a small plastic recycling factory in Bangladesh. (Feature Photography – Honourable Mention by Akhlas Uddin)
Diver Joel Gonzaga of the Philippine fishing boat "Vergene" works in and around a skipjack tuna fishing net using just a single plastic air hose connected to a rusty compressor onboard the fishing boat at the surface. (Feature Photography – Winner by Alex Hofford/Greenpeace)
Myanmar migrant Sher Naytoo, 19, talks with local boys who are curious about his small motorcycle in Buffalo, New York. (Migration Issues Winner – Burma to Buffalo: James Robert Fuller)
This is a story about the lifestyle of Maikos and Geikos. Umeyae, 21, and Umechie, 16, are cleaning a room. Every morning, they have to do laundry and clean their accommodations and the teahouse where they entertain their guests, before they go to practice traditional Japanese style entertainment. (Photo Essay Winner – Subtle beauty: Kazuhiko Matsumura)
Tomitae, 16, is playing a party game called Tora Tora with her guest. She plays the role of a tiger, and her guest plays the role of a military commander. In this game her guest wins, because a military commander has the power to win over the tiger. (Photo Essay Winner – Subtle beauty: Kazuhiko Matsumura)
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves as she crosses a crowd of supporters while arriving for a political rally as part of her electoral campaign at a stadium in Pathein, some 200 kilometres west of Yangon, on Feb 7, 2012. (Spot News – Honourable Mention by Christophe Archambault/AFP)
Ashamoni (aged 18 months) has died with his family in a landslide in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Every year people are killed because of landslides. (Spot News – Honourable Mention by Kauser Haider)sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 13, 2012. (Spot News - Honourable Mention by Kauser Haider)
Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf River into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 13, 2012. (Spot News – Winner by Munir uz Zaman/AFP)Chittagong, Bangladesh. Every year people are killed because of landslides. (Spot News – Winner by Munir uz Zaman/AFP)
