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Prix Rückblende à John MacDougall, AFP
Unidentified relatives of a German soldier killed in Afghanistan comfort each other following a funeral ceremony outside the Evangelische Epiphanias Church during a memorial service in the northern German city of Hanover, June 3, 2011. The three were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on May 28, 2011 © AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL
AFP photographer John MacDougall is named winner of Rueckblende 2011, the German prize for political photojournalism in Berlin on January 25, 2012 © AFP PHOTO / ODD ANDERSEN
Unidentified relatives of a German soldier killed in Afghanistan comfort each other following a funeral ceremony outside the Evangelische Epiphanias Church during a memorial service in the northern German city of Hanover, June 3, 2011. The three were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on May 28, 2011 © AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL
John MacDougall, a photojournalist at Agence France-Presse, was awarded the “Rückblende,” one of the most prestigious German photography prizes, for an image taken during a memorial service for three soldiers killed in Afghanistan. MacDougall is the first AFP photographer to receive the prize.
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