South African Photographer Jodi Bieber Wins World Press Photo Contest

The annual best-of-the-best in photojournalism has just recently been announced, with this year’s winners of the World Press Photo Contest. Nearly 6,000 photographers submitted work, totaling over 100,000 images and resulting in 56 winners spread across nine categories. The top winner is South African photographer Jodi Bieber for her image of a woman terribly abused at the hands of the Taliban, her husband, and his family, taken for Time magazine. It’s a painful, incredibly heartbreaking photograph, as are many of the images by winners of the prize, given that the world events that make news aren’t always humanity at its best.