Tomasz Gudzowaty and Filip Cwik have won awards at the 54th annual World Press Photo Contest in the ‘Sport’ and ‘People in the News Stories’ categories, with the main prize awarded to Jodi Bieber from Time weekly for a photo of an Afghani victim of husband abuse.

Tomasz Gudzowaty, an eight-time winner of the competition, came second in the Sport category with a photo series called Mexico Car Frenzy.

Gudzowaty’s black and white photos show amateur car races in a Mexican desert.

Previously Gudzowaty, who represents Your Photography and Focus Fotoagentur agencies, won World Press Photo prizes in 1999, 2000, twice in 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2009. ...more.

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So far seven Poles have been awarded the prize, including Tomasz Gudzowaty, Filip Cwik, Kacper Kowalski, Rafal Milach Witold Krassowski, Maciej Skawinski and Poland’s incumbent Foreign Minister and former journalist now foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski.

Source: thenews.pl