(via World Press Photo Of The Year 2011 » TotallyCoolPix) Brent Stirton of South Africa, a Getty Images photographer working for Kiev Independent, has won the first prize Contemporary Issues Singles with this picture of Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine August 31, 2011. Maria injects drugs on a daily basis and sees many men every week but claims she remains HIV negative. She says she need the money to support herself, her drug habit and her nine-year-old daughter. The prize-winning entries of the World Press Photo Contest 2011, the world’s largest annual press photography contest, were announced February 10, 2012. Picture taken August 31, 2011. REUTERS/Brent Stirton/Getty Images/Handout
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Brent Stirton of South Africa, a Getty Images photographer working for Kiev Independent, has won the first prize Contemporary Issues Singles with this picture of Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine August 31, 2011. Maria injects drugs on a daily basis and sees many men every week but claims she remains HIV negative. She says she need the money to support herself, her drug habit and her nine-year-old daughter. The prize-winning entries of the World Press Photo Contest 2011, the world’s largest annual press photography contest, were announced February 10, 2012. Picture taken August 31, 2011. REUTERS/Brent Stirton/Getty Images/Handout

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