The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest announced Friday that it had selected this picture by Samuel Aranda as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011.
Jurors said the photo of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen captured multiple facets of the "Arab Spring" uprisings across the Middle Eastlast year. It was taken at a field hospital inside a mosque in Sanaa on October 15.
Jury chair Aidan Sullivan said: "The winning photo shows a poignant, compassionate moment, the human consequence of an enormous event, an event that is still going on. We might never know who this woman is, cradling an injured relative, but together they become a living image of the courage of ordinary people that helped create an important chapter in the history of the Middle East."
The 2010 award was given to South African photographer Jodi Bieber.
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