LOVE U BIBI ............ SUMERA NIAZ SOLANGI Benazir Bhutto snap secures top photography prize! Sharing old news but never shared her though sharing here as well. An evocative image of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has won the top prize in a prestigious photography awards scheme and the award winning photo is on display here at the National Theatre on the banks of river Thames. Sydney-born Daniel Berehulak, from Getty Images, took the winning photo during a press conference at Benazir Bhutto’s house, in Karachi. The Australian cameraman took the photograph of Ms.Bhutto on October 21 last year when the former premier was adjusting her headscarf during a press conference at her house. Quran Khawani was held at Bilawal House for those killed in the deadly suicide attack two days earlier on her homecoming parade after eight years in exile. Berehulak received the award in ‘The Press Photographer’s Year’ category run in association with the British Press Photographer’s Association. The presentation ceremony was held recently in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. He has spent the past five years traversing the globe, snapping some incredibly memorable images. Among them is a striking photo of Saddam Hussein sitting in the dock during his trial in Baghdad in 2006. His earlier accomplishments include thought-provoking portrait series on the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. But it was a haunting photograph of late Benazir Bhutto that won Berehulak prize in the 2008 World Press Photo Competition. Berehulak, 33, was one of just three photographers and three journalists chosen to interview and photograph Ms. Bhutto. Three days earlier, Berehulak had joined Ms. Bhutto on the flight over from Dubai where she had spent the past eight years in exile. Berehulak’s camera snapped as Ms. Bhutto spoke to the international journalists about the suicide bomb attack. color photo “It was more like an intimate interview session than a press conference,” Berehulak told local media from his North London home. “She was sitting down in her home and we had half an hour with her. She went to adjust her headscarf. Reading into it, it looks as though someone else is adjusting her headscarf and in some way adjusting her. Obviously the fact that she has now passed on … it definitely gives it prescience.” World Press Photo Competition, attracted more than 80,000 images by 5000 photographers in 125 countries.
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