Remember that old saying, 'a picture is worth a thousand words'? If you were like us, then you would have once tried to convince your Primary teacher that your portrait of John Howard scrawled on the back of a Marvel comic with a greylead and half of a moldy banana qualified as your 1,000 words of homework.
If a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then 2010's winners of the World Press Photography competition are threatening to send us journalists out of business.
The winning categories heavily feature war and famine, but we've tried to mix it up with some of our own favourites.