A photo of Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s detective Robert Kole searching a home in Cleveland to ensure evicted residents had left the premises following a mortgage foreclosure was awarded the top prize in the World Press Photo competition. The photo was taken by Anthony Suau for Time magazine.
The image was part of a story that placed second in the Daily Life category of the contest and documented the housing market collapse and foreclosure crisis in Cleveland.
In an interview published by Photo District News Online Suau said he pleaded with Time to run the essay. Time never printed the finished project and the photos ran on Time.com. In a strange twist, Suau himself is caught in the economic crisis and may have to leave his own home.