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Press Photographer’s Year winners announced

This year’s Press Photographer’s Year awards have been announced, and as usual are an excellent overview of press photography in the last 12 months.

As you’d expect, there are many images of events like the Port au Prince earthquake and the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

The winner of the Photographer of the Year prize was David Bebber of The Times.

Multimedia didn’t get ignored, though. First prize in that category went to Rebecca Harley for her short slideshow, Memories of a House.

Felix Clay of The Guardian won the Digital Film first prize for The Bridgewater Canal:

Barton’s Britain: The Bridgewater Canal from Felix Clay on Vimeo.

Heathcliff O’Malley from The Daily Telegraph won a commendation for his footage from Helmand province, which is real front-line stuff. It’s a very honest view of what the soldiers there deal with every day; no artificial heroics, no overblown drama. Just the truth.