Max Becherer was awarded First Prize in the People and Events category of the 2006 Poland Press Photography Contest for his image of Iraqi mourners during the funeral of a man killed during the national elections of 2005.

Naim Rahim Judi Yacoubi, 37, was killed in a suicide bombing on election day in Baghdad, while taking tea to election officials at an Iskin neighborhood polling station where he had voted earlier that day.