581 Many congrats to Balazs and Ben on winning 4 prizes in the World Press Photo 2008 contest. Balazs Gardi and Benjamin Lowy each won two prizes. Balazs Gardi won in the General News / 1st Prize Singles category for a black-and-white image of a bearded Afghan man holding a young boy wounded by shrapnel from a U.S. airstrike (see link). He also won in the General News / 1st Prize Stories category for his story titled 'Operation Rock Avalanche,' about a U.S. military operation in the Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan, one of the deadliest pieces of terrain for U.S. forces. Ben Lowy won in the Daily Life / 2nd Prize Singles category for his picture of a market in Kabul, Afghanistan (see link). He also won in the Portraits / 2nd Prize Stories for a series of images of blindfolded Iraqi detainees. Operation Rock Avalanche (by Balazs Gardi) http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=661 Afghanistan - Year 6 (by Ben Lowy) http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=665 7 2008-02-08T17:10:54Z 0 2008-03-12T12:57:07Z true 20312 false 3220 2008-02-11T15:03:28Z Venice CA true false vii-network-photographers-gardi-lowy-win-wp-awards 1 2008-03-12T12:57:07Z 5185