World Press Photo of the Year 2004

World Press Photo of the Year 2004
Autor: Arko Datta, India, Reuters
Woman mourns relative killed in tsunami, Cuddalore, India, Tamil Nadu, 28 December 2004
Datta had to shoot fast, before they took the bloated body away. He felt that its gruesomeness would've distracted too much from the grieving subject of the picture, so he decided just to include the hand.