2006: The Year in Photo-horrorism

members and ex-members of Mara Salvatrucha
The Annenberg School at USC is hosting the Getty/TNT/Canon/LATimes World Press Photo Award-Winning Images of '06 thru Feb. 1 and it's bloody horrifying. And not just because TribCo axe-man David Hiller is in town (photo below -- James O'Shea was on hand but held fire, er, I mean he didn't speak). Matter o' fact, USC's Annenberg School is the only host of this traveling Dutch-based show in the U.S. other than the United Nations building in New York (on arguably international soil).

This is the third consecutive year that the Annenberg School has hosted this event and it may be the last -- Dean Geoffrey Cowan is set to depart at semester's end and quite frankly, the subject matter displayed is rather alien to the American media's penchant for truthiness.

The exhibit is open to the public, and unfortunately, only until Feb. 1, at which point the Annenberg lobby will again be flooded with plasma-vision "Situation Room" action -- where fake boobs are born with Wolf Blitzer's blessing. For directions, use this GMap.

More photos of the photos after the jump.