Ex. 1 Read the text. The annual World Press Photo exhibition is back in Moscow this month, presenting harrowing images of war

The annual World Press Photo exhibition is back in Moscow this month, presenting harrowing images of war, poverty and human resilience.

Located in KrasnyOktyabr’s former chocolate shop, the exhibition features almost 200 photographs from the international contest, which was held this year for the 56th time. This year’s winning entries were selected from over 100,000 pictures submitted by nearly 6,000 photographers from 124 countries.

World Press Photo exhibit organizer Erik de Kruijf said at the opening that the winning photograph has to show a newsworthy event, as well as appeal to the viewer’s emotions.

This year’s top honors went to “Gaza Funeral” by Swedish photographer Paul Hansen. Taken in Gaza City last November, the photo depicts two Palestinian children killed by an Israeli rocket being carried to their funeral. Hansen has fended off accusations that the image had been significantly altered, with organizers calling in an independent expert who verified its authenticity.

Some of the exhibition’s most compelling images are focused on a Somalian women’s basketball team. The black-and-white series by Danish photographer Jan Grarup shows the athletes training while under armed guard.

Grarup, who is known for his work in war zones, attended the team’s training sessions for several weeks. He said the athletes were initially camera-shy, but gradually got used to the presence of a white male photographer. Despite the dangers they face, the young women behave much like any team, clowning around in the weight room and shedding their waist-length head coverings to don baggy shorts and jerseys.

In another striking series, Italian photographer Paolo Patrizi documented Italy’s roadside sex workers, most of whom are African immigrants. Patrizi’s photos show the women, back to the camera, near their trash-strewn mattresses in forest clearings, fields and parking lots.

Similarly memorable – and disturbing – is American photographer Micah Albert’s image of a woman sitting on bags of trash she picked at a municipal dump outside Nairobi, Kenya. Albert’s photo was the winner in the Contemporary Issues Singles Category.