AFP awarded six prestigious photo prizes
04/16/2011 - Otsuchi, Japan - AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba
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04/16/2011 - Otsuchi, Japan - AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba
Massoud Hossaini (30) from Afghanistan won first prize in the “International News” category for a photograph of a little girl dressed in green crying in the midst of the victims of an attack in Kabul on 6 December 2011 that left 80 dead and 150 wounded.
AFP's clients worldwide will now have access to QMI Agency photos through AFP’s ImageForum platform. This agreement reinforces a long-standing partnership between the two entities.
“AFP clients will benefit from QMI Agency’s scale and the reach of our Canadian photo network,” said Philippe Mercure, QMI Agency Marketing Director. “AFP clients will be able to illustrate the most important events happening in Canada.”
GERMANY, HANOVER : Unidentified relatives of a German soldier killed in Afghanistan comfort each other following a funeral ceremony outside the Evangelische Epiphanias Church during a memorial service in the northern German city of Hanover, June 3, 2011. The three were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on May 28, 2011. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL
He won the prize, one of the most prestigious in journalism, for his picture of a girl screaming in the aftermath of a suicide attack in Kabul in December 2011.
06/12/2011 - Kabul, Afghanistan - AFP/Massoud Hossaini
Iran-based Behrouz Mehri won two prizes in the photojournalism feature category for his images of street children and heroin addicts in the strife-torn southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

Prune Perromat, AFP journalist in New York, appeared on Beast TV (The Daily Beast's video channel) on Friday May 11th to discuss the French presidential election.
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Jay Directo is 3rd in the « International News » category for his picture of children searching for objects to sell in Manila in August 2011.

Manpreet Romana receives the honorable mention in the « International News » category for the picture of this child crying during his father’s funeral, who died when their apartment building collapsed in New Dehli on November 15th, 2010.
AFP photographer, Ye Aung Thu, wins 2016 Myanmar National Press Award Best Photo of the Year