LONDON ARMENIAN PHOTOGRAPHER EDMOND TERAKOPIAN AWARDED "WORLD PRESS PHOTO" PRIZE
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 27 2006
ISTANBUL, SEPTEMBER 27, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Exhibition of
photos of 2006 winners of the "World Press Photo" international most
famous annual photo exhibition has opened in the exhibition hall of
the Prague University from September 8. The traditional Prague prize
was this year for the first time given to famous London Armenian
photographer Edmond Terakopian.
E.Terakopian photograthed on July 7, 2005 a worker with injuries got
from the explosion taken place in the London underground and with
bloody bandage. He got with this photo the 3rd prize in the "Important
News" nomination of the "World Press Photo-2006" competition. And
this photo was awarded the annual city prize in Prague.
According to the Istanbul "Marmara" daily, during those July days
of 2005, ten English and international periodicals published in the
first page that photo of Edmond Terakopian. On the occasion of the
Prague prize, Edmond Terakopian was also given possibility to present
separately his 12 works as well which were dedicated to consequences
of the terrorism act taken place in London on July 7, 2005.
The "World Press Photo" exhibitions started in Prague from 1990 and
the Prague prize was also fixed on the initiative of Mayor of those
years Jaroslav Goran. This year the prize was given by present Mayor
Pavel Bem.
It is mentioned that this is Edmond Terakopian’s 8th international
prize. He was already proclaimed this year the best photographer of
the year during the annual awarding of the British press. And he also
got a special prize of British photographers-editors in March 2006,
in the "News Photographer of the Year" nomination.
4448 professional photographers from 122 countries of the world
participated this year in the "World Press Photo" awarding, presenting
83 thousand 44 photos. 63 photographers from 25 countries also got
prizes. Finbarr O’Reilly, a Canadian correspondent of the Reuter agency
got the main prize. In a photo taken in Nigeria he pictured a face
of a mother and a hand of a child waiting for humanitarian aid food.