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Exhibition: World Press Photo 2010th

The World Press organizes Photo Foundation annually to the world's largest and most prestigious photo Competition. At the 2010 competition in 5847 photographers from 128 countries participated with 101 960 Photos. The award-winning images will be in about 100 cities in over 45 countries gezeigt.Die sometimes very shocking works currently do in Leipzig Hauptbahnhof station.

I've now seen the exhibition evening, as experience shows that scurry around to the night only a few visitors in the halls and you feel not by the crowds of people as oppressed. When watching turned to me again the question of why people do not make it easy to add live peacefully in front of him. There are documented so many bad and despicable conditions that I was taken quickly by a comprehensive human hatred. When any cooked the emotions so high in me that I had tears in his eyes.

So at this point the serious note: Some of these pictures are deeply disturbing and can be - how shall I say this - cause unpleasant feelings. There is blood and brutality seen. The situations are not provided. Welcome to Reality.

Let me start with harmless photos, and perhaps even provoke a smile or a raised eyebrow.

Sports

Tiger Woods exchanged the bat with his caddy. Usual professional.

Lance Armstrongs Waden während der Tour de France.

ancient Olympics for athletes.

Entertainment

"Dirty Kids" at a kind of happening in the U.S..

people with clothing from the Middle East, photographed in front of different backgrounds.

Ambianceurs et Société of the Personnnes elegant - SAPE (Society the entertainer and elegant people) in Congo-Brazzaville dates back to the 20s and 30s of last century, as privileged Congolese dressed stylishly visits from Paris came back. Today, there is this high-fashion subculture in the context of poverty. Many save for years to be able to buy a suit, but the originality of the combination and selecting the right accessories is one more than the issued amount. Members of the SAPE, also called Sapeurs consider themselves artists and are admired by the community. Some are famous and come out at weddings and funerals. Everyone has a repertoire of gestures which distinguishes him from others and many have funny nicknames.

adorn close-ups of the women's eyes Roof of a train that runs through Kibera, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya. On this 2km ² barracks full of live from 700,000 to 1.2 million people in poverty. Men who have a job, riding the train to work, the women stay at home. The eyes on the train's roof are part of the project "Women are Heroes" with which the photographer wants to make the key role of women in society.

animals

diversities

Chemically contaminated oranges.

In her last moment in the White House President George W. Bush and Laura Bush are waiting with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn before his swearing in on the arrival of Barack Obama.

Obama waits a moment before he enters the swearing in of the podium.

see in the world, people exposed to the pressure of having to comply with an often dictated by the industry of beauty. Christopher, 22, seen in a New York beauty salon his chest after waxing.

Now we come to the difficult images. There are four photos.

followers of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi protests in June in the streets of Tehran against the Outcome of the presidential elections. The current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the overwhelming winner of the elections of 12 June explained, but the supporters of the opposition leader spoke of electoral fraud. In the days after the election, thousands gathered for the largest protest in the capital since the revolution in 1979. Despite all attempts by the government to block access, social media networks played an important role in communication about the protest. The government security forces went out and attack the demonstrators. On 22 June it was reported 457 arrests and at least eight dead. President Ahmadinejad presented on 5 August the oath of office for his second Amtsperidoe from.

An injured protester covers his face after riots broke out on 13 June.

Guinea Bissau, one of the poorest countries in the world, developed into a center of cocaine trade in South America, drug cartels, the new smuggling routes to Europe were looking for. With over 100 islands off the coast of Maine and a seaworthy boats without offering Guinea-Bissau safe places for the unloading, storage and dne transportation of cocaine. Army officers and political leaders are involved in the lucrative drug trade. According to Interpol, was the former President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who on 2 March was murdered, some of his generals, with whom he had differences of opinion, to force them out of the trade.

crack was unknown in Guinea-Bissau, to the traffickers found the country. Today, the dependence has driven many women into prostitution.

men prepare cocaine capsules which are swallowed and smuggled into Europe.

view into the interior of an Italian slaughterhouse. The meat ends up on the counters of our discount store.

The exhibition runs until 30 January.