Andrea Gjestvang's photos of survivors of the massacre on the island Utøya

...evoke with their strong forward looking beautiful posture thoughts like "Don't let terror win, but never forget what happened".

On 25 April 2013, the Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang was awarded for her series 'One day in history' with the 'L'Iris d'Or/Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year'.

Chair of the Honorary Jury, Catherine Chermayeff, Director of Special Projects at Magnum Photos, says: “'One Day in History' is a quiet, thoughtful and ultimately powerful voice for the children and survivors of the massacre in Norway. We were all moved by the dignity and beauty of these images.”

Sony World Photography Awards presents selected images in each of the competition's categories in an online gallery such as in 'Fashion & Beauty', 'Parisian Twenties' by French portrait/reportage photographer Thierry Bouët who depicts nudeness without nakedness, in 'Sport', images like 'Scream' by Getty Images photographer Adam Pretty who captured a female athlete in a powerful pose during London 2012 Olympic Games, or in 'Conceptual', Ukrainian artist Roman Pyatkovka's 'Soviet Photo' series showing graphically reworked images by underground photographers from former times such as the picture of a woman with balaclava: "Pictures of which could put into prison."


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