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Exhibit of Best Press Photographs of 2010 Opens at United Nations Headquarters

NEW YORK, N.Y.- An exhibition of the best press photographs of 2010 opened in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at United Nations Headquarters in New York at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 4 August. This traveling exhibition of winning images selected at the fifty-fourth annual World Press Photo Contest in Amsterdam will be on display until 28 August. Among the features in the exhibition is the World Press Photo of the Year 2010, a photograph that represents an issue, situation or event of great journalistic importance, regarded as the photojournalistic encapsulation of the year. The international jury selected an image by South African photographer Jodi Bieber as World Press Photo of the Year 2010. The picture shows Bibi Aisha, 18, who was disfigured as retribution for fleeing her husband’s house in Oruzgan province, in the center of