NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2006: Still Photography Winners: Local Portrait and Personality

1st: A little girl who is an earthquake survivor...; Goran Tomasevic, Reuters
2nd: Railroad; Brian Cassella, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3rd: From left, Long Reach High School senior...; Ji-Eun Lee, Patuxent Publishing Company
HM1: An angry Jewish settler boy looks out from...; Damir Sagolj, Reuters
HM2: Women gang raped look for help; Stephanie Sinclair, Corbis for Stern
HM3: Hibakusha; Gerard Rancinan, Polaris/Time Magazine

HM3: Hibakusha; May 2005, Hiroshima, Japan: In 1957, the Japanese government recognised certain people as hibakusha: 1- Those who had been within 4km of the epicentre of the explosion on August 6, 1945. 2- Those who had been within 2km of the epicentre within two weeks of the explosion. 3- Those caught in the Black Rain. 4- Those who treated the victims in the city suburbs. 5- Those who were in the wombs of their hibakusha mothers. Two witnesses were required to validate hibakusha status./Sakaru Takigawa, age 79, was 19 at the time and 1,5 km away from the Hypocenter.

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