Ringier Photo Award 2009: The winners
Serbian photographer Marko Djurica won the 2009 Ringier Photo Award for his photograph «Kosovo Independence.» The runner-up prizes went to «Combat of the Ghosts» by Michal Beránek of the Czech Republic and «Close call …» by Viktor Veres of Hungary.
Ringier was looking for the best press photo of the year for the fourth time. 45 photographers from eight countries submitted their favorites from last year, which were judged by a jury of 19 experts. The photo "Kosovo Independence" by 34-year-old Serbian Marko Djurica was chosen as the best picture of the year. He was in Kosovo during the unrest in March 2008 for the Ringier daily newspaper Blic and captured the moment when Serbian demonstrators clashed with NATO peacekeepers. He remembers the situation well: "The level of violence was very high, and the clouds of tear gas were often so thick that I could no longer see exactly what I was photographing." Djurica is all the more pleased about the appreciation of his
work that is not always without danger.
Michal Beránek took second place with the technically impressive sports study "Combat of the Ghosts". The picture was taken in August 2008 at the Olympic Games in Beijing for the Ringier newspaper Sport. "I am of course delighted to receive this award, but I also accept it on behalf of all the photographers at Ringier Zeitung Sport," explains Beránek modestly, "because we are a team." The picture "Close call ..." by Hungarian photographer Viktor Veres was voted into third place. The spectacular near-collision was part of an air show in the United Arab Emirates and was published in the Ringier newspaper Blikk.
Every year since 2006, Ringier has presented the Photo Award to the best pictures that appeared in one of Ringier's publications in the previous year.
work that is not always without danger.
Michal Beránek took second place with the technically impressive sports study "Combat of the Ghosts". The picture was taken in August 2008 at the Olympic Games in Beijing for the Ringier newspaper Sport. "I am of course delighted to receive this award, but I also accept it on behalf of all the photographers at Ringier Zeitung Sport," explains Beránek modestly, "because we are a team." The picture "Close call ..." by Hungarian photographer Viktor Veres was voted into third place. The spectacular near-collision was part of an air show in the United Arab Emirates and was published in the Ringier newspaper Blikk.
Every year since 2006, Ringier has presented the Photo Award to the best pictures that appeared in one of Ringier's publications in the previous year.
Winning picture by Marko Djurica:
Picture by Michal Beránek, 2nd place:
Picture by Viktor Veres, 3rd place:
