The Contest Designed by Photojournalists for Photojournalists

Compete with the very best in still and television photojournalism, in picture editing, and Web editing. Now in its eighth year, the Best of Photojournalism (BOP) is the world's leading digital photojournalism contest.

BOP is a project of the National Press Photographers Association.

1st Place, International News Picture Story

Walter Astrada/AFP

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Monday Lawiland, 7 years old, screams as he sees kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 January 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search for protestors.

SUMMARY

On December 30th 2007 three days after elections were held in Kenya,, the Electoral Commission declared President Mwai Kibaki re-elected and he was hurriedly sworn in. Since then until February 29 Kenya has been convulsed by ethnic bloodshed. Initially praised as a model of democratic engagement, the nation quickly plummeted into chaos as the opposition leader Raila Odinga and his supporters claimed the election was rigged. An undercurrent of tribalism that ran through the election from the start has heightened the charges. Odinga’s supporters accused Kibaki of favoring his Kikuyu community, which is the largest tribe in Kenya and has dominated politics and power structures here since the country gained independence from Britain in 1963. Since the vote on Dec. 27 until February 29 the Red Cross has estimated the death toll resulting from weeks of violence at over 1,000 and said 300,000 people had been displaced, many of whom lost their homes in ethnic clashes.

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