Now. Pietro Masturzo’s haunting and eerily prescient “From the Rooftops of Tehran, June,” which shows opponents of the Iranian regime shouting their protests at twilight, is the World Press Photo of the Year for 2009.
“What we were really touched about is that this image in some way represents how a big story begins and how protest begins,” said Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, the vice president of pictures at Reuters and chairwoman of the jury.
“There is no big event going on,” she said, “but you still sense that there is something very particular and quite desperate in these lonely little people of the picture fighting something that you feel is much bigger. And we thought, as a jury, that it was very symbolic of how you can actually add layers to news and how you can view events differently from what we are used to.”