“the world’s greatest superpower: Mother Nature”

Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly has won 2005's World Press Photo for the photograph shown here, taken in an emergency feeding centre in Niger.

"This picture has haunted me ever since I first saw it two weeks ago. It has stayed in my head, even after seeing all the thousands of others during the competition. This image has everything — beauty, horror and despair. It is simple, elegant and moving."
James Colton, chairman of the jury