World Press Photo of the Year 2009

The 52nd World Press Photo winner is U.S. photographer Anthony Suau (wikipedia; I got a Trojan Horse virus alert from AVAST while trying to load his personnal website) for a photo illustrating the subprimes crisis in the U.S.A. The photo was taken in March of 2008 and published in the U.S. Time Magazine and shows an armed police officer securing a house. Jury chair MaryAnne Golon said: "The strength of the picture is in its opposites. It looks like a classic conflict photograph, but it is simply the eviction of people from a house following foreclosure. Now war in its classic sense is coming into people's houses because they can't pay their mortgages."

Detective Robert Kole must ensure residents have moved out of their home, Cleveland, Ohio, March 26,2008. Credits : A. Suau/Time