World Press Photo of the Year 2012 winner

The 55th annual World Press Photo Contest winner is Samuel Aranda (Spain). His winning photo shows a woman holding a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011.

Samuel Aranda was working in Yemen on assignment for The New York Times.

The winner of the contest receives the equivalent of about RM40,000, as well as "the most prestigious and coveted award in photojournalism".

The main prize is given to the image that "... is not only the photojournalistic encapsulation of the year, but represents an issue, situation or event of great journalistic importance, and does so in a way that demonstrates an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity".