Winners

• 1971 Magazine Stern
  Stern (magazine)
  Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. In the first quarter of 2006, its print run was 1.019 million copies and it reached 7.84 million readers according to...
  
  
• 1972 Magazine Du
• 1973 Magazine Avenue
  Avenue (magazine)
  Avenue is a former Dutch glossy monthly magazine. In its original form it was established in 1965 and shut down in 1995. In 2001 publisher VNU restarted the magazine. It survived only four editions....
  
  
• 1974 Magazine Epoca
• 1975 Personenbeschreibung
• 1976 Magazine Zeitmagazin
• 1977 Magazine Bild der Wissenschaft
• 1978 National Geographic magazine
• 1979 Der 7.Sinn
• 1980 GEO
  GEO (magazine)
  GEO is a family of educational monthly magazines similar to the National Geographic magazine. It is known for its profound reports, which are accompanied by opulent pictures.The first edition appeared in Germany in 1976...
  
  
• 1981 Picture service of Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA)
• 1982 World Press Photo
  World Press Photo
  World Press Photo is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955 the organization is known for holding the world's largest and most prestigious annual press photography contest....
  
  
• 1983 Lotte Jacobi
  Lotte Jacobi
  Johanna Alexandra Jacobi was a German photographer, who immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi Germany....
  
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• 1984 Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin
• 1985 Robert Frank
  Robert Frank
  Robert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...
  
  
• 1986 Peter Magubane
  Peter Magubane
  -Early life:He was born in Vrededorp, now Pageview, a suburb in Johannesburg and grew up in Sophiatown. He started taking some photographs using a Kodak Brownie box camera as a schoolboy....
  
  
• 1987 Josef H. Darchinger
• 1988 Sebastiao Salgado
  Sebastião Salgado
  Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.-Biography:Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in...
  
  
• 1989 Barbara Klemm
• 1990 Cristina García Rodero
  Cristina García Rodero
  Cristina García Rodero is a Spanish photographer and member of the Magnum and Vu agencies. She was born in Puertollano, Spain in 1949, and studied painting at Complutense University in Madrid. She used to work as a teacher. She also won the Eugene Smith Foundation Prize in 1989 for photos of...
  
  
• 1991 Robert Lebeck
  Robert Lebeck
  Robert Lebeck is an award winning German photojournalist.-Biography:At the age of fifteen Lebeck was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front where he was captured as a POW by the Soviet Army...
  
  
• 1992/1993 Don McCullin
  Don McCullin
  Donald McCullin, FRPS CBE is an internationally known British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife...
  
  
• 1994 Mary Ellen Mark
  Mary Ellen Mark
  Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades, including three Robert F...
  
  
• 1995 Gilles Peress
  Gilles Peress
  Gilles Peress is an internationally renowned French photojournalist known for his documentation of war and strife, including in Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, Iran, and Rwanda. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Du magazine, Life, Stern, Geo, Paris-Match, Parkett, Aperture and...
  
  
• 1996 Regina Schmeken
• 1997 Peter Hunter (nee Otto Salomon, son of Dr. Erich Salomon)
• 1998 René Burri
  René Burri
  René Burri is a Swiss photographer known for his photos of major political, historical and cultural events and key figures of the second half of the 20th century. Burri worked for Magnum Photos and has been photographing political, military and artistic figures and scenes since 1946...
  
  
• 1999 Eva Besnyö
• 2000 Arno Fischer
• 2001 Herlinde Koelbl
• 2002 Reporters sans frontières
• 2003 John G. Morris
  John G. Morris
  John Godfrey Morris is a picture editor.- Career :Journalist John Godfrey Morris has spent a lifetime editing photographs for magazines and newspapers, working with hundreds of photographers, among them the great names of 20th century photography. He worked for the weekly picture magazine Life...
  
  
• 2004 Will McBride
• 2005 Horst Faas
  Horst Faas
  Horst Faas is a photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best-known for his images of the Vietnam War.-Life:...
  
  
• 2006 Martin Parr
  Martin Parr
  Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take a critical look at aspects of modern life, in particular provincial and suburban life in England...
  
  
• 2007 Letizia Battaglia
  Letizia Battaglia
  Letizia Battaglia is a Sicilian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia.-Biography:...
  
  
• 2008 Anders Petersen
  Anders Petersen (photographer)
  Anders Petersen is a Swedish photographer, who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.-Biography:Anders Petersen is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. He studied photography under Christer Stromholm in Sweden, 1966-1967...
  
  
• 2009 Sylvia Plachy
  Sylvia Plachy
  Sylvia Plachy is a Hungarian/American photographer.Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Czech Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II. Her father was a Hungarian Roman Catholic aristocrat and she was raised in his faith.Plachy's family moved to New York...
  
  
• 2010 Michael von Graffenried