‘Iraqi Prisoner’ Wins Photo Of The Year

A small pair of sandals lies a few feet away in the sand.

Bouju, a French national, will receive the award and $12, 700at a ceremony in the Netherlands on April25 .

Bouju, 42 , spent nine weeks in Iraq in March and May of last year as he was embedded with the U.S.101 st Airborne Division,3 rd Brigade.

He told the Associated Press that the photo was made during a rare moment of humanity in a war zone.

"My little girl was four at the time and I couldn’t help thinking what would she have thought in the same situation," he said.

Bouju wasn’t able to get the prisoner’s name and doesn’t know where he or the child is now.