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3 This exhibition shows the results of the 63rd annual World Press Photo Contest. The contest rewards professional photographers for the best pictures - presented as singles or in stories - contributing to the past year of visual journalism.
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4 5 Portraits, 3rd Prize Singles Portraits, 2nd Prize Singles
Alon Skuy Lee-Ann Olwage South Africa, Sunday Times South Africa
Black Drag Magic - Portrait of a Drag Artist and Activist Musa’s Struggle and Search for the Stage Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie, a drag artist and activist, poses at Professional dancer Musa Motha, who dances on crutches, poses a shisanyama—a community space where women cook and sell after a practice session in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa. meat—in Khayelitsha, a township located on the Cape Flats, near Cape Town, South Africa. Musa was a rising football player when, at the age of 11, he had his leg amputated below the knee as a result of cancer. Musa refocused Belinda, the photographer, and other black, queer, gender non- his ambitions and took up dance. He uses gravity and his crutches, conforming and transgender people collaborated in a project to together with the physical flexibility he learned as a football player, decolonize drag culture and find a particularly African expression to perfect his moves. He performs with the Vuyani Dance Theatre, a of drag. The aim was also to highlight the need for the African contemporary dance company in Johannesburg. lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer (LGBTQ+) community to find their identities irrespective of their backgrounds, and to reclaim the public space in a community where they are subject to discrimination, harassment and violence. Discrimination is part of everyday life for LGBTQ+ people in townships such as Khayelitsha, especially in public areas.
6 7 Nominee, World Press Portraits, 3rd Prize Stories Photo of the Year, Portraits, 1st Prize Singles Tadas Kazakevičius Tomek Kaczor Lithuania Poland, for Duży Format, Gazeta Wyborcza
Awakening Ewa, a 15-year-old Armenian girl, recently woken from catatonic Between Two Shores state brought on by Resignation Syndrome, sits in a wheelchair in a The Curonian Spit is a 98-kilometer-long curved, sand-dune spit refugee center in Podkowa Leśna, Poland. that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. Even at its heart, you are never far from one or the other shore. The Resignation Syndrome (RS) puts patients into a semi-coma. It photographer wants to convey that space is supposed to be heard, affects psychologically traumatized children in the midst of lengthy smelled, absorbed, and felt with all possible senses because the asylum processes. Remission and gradual return to normal function eyes do not show enough. The subjects of the portraits chose their occurs after life circumstances improve. Ewa succumbed to RS own locations, and closed their eyes to emphasize their connection while her family were in Sweden and threatened with deportation to to the landscape. Poland, their country of first arrival as refugees. They feared being Karolis is the first of a new generation Vitalija stands beside a boat her sent back to Armenia. The family was deported to Poland, despite of fishermen. late artist husband was planning Ewa’s illness, but she recovered eight months after they arrived. to restore. Local sculptor Albertas ‘feels’ his place in Griekyne forest. Saulius, a graphic artist born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Snow covers sand dunes. A tree beside the Curonian Lagoon. A signpost on the path to the Vecekrugo dune. Cormorants have been making a comeback since the 1980s. Arunas is famous for driving his big Ford Thunderbird.
8 9 Portraits, 2nd Prize Stories Portraits, 1st Prize Stories Tatsiana Tkachova Adam Ferguson Belarus Australia, The New York Times Magazine
Between Right and Shame Belarus abortion laws are among the most liberal in Europe. Yet abortion is still a taboo for many women, and the decision to have a termination is often accompanied by a sense of shame. Belarusian women who have considered or undergone abortion tell their stories. They did not want to show their faces and their names have been changed. The Haunted As the Islamic State group (IS) retreated from territory around Diana (91) had her leg amputated she could not cope with two children, Mosul in northern Iraq, thousands of former IS prisoners, including when she was very young and fell so had an abortion the second time pregnant at the age of 20. The father she conceived. Yazidi people and other minorities, were liberated. Many were and she were in a casual relationship in severe states of trauma having undergone human rights and he left her when he found out. Alexandra (35) had an abortion when violations perpetrated by IS. People living in refugee camps in the His mother said she did not want a she was 23, after her older boss had region suffer the effects of this personal and cultural trauma, crippled daughter-in-law. Diana felt forced her into a sexual relationship. which include feelings of powerlessness, tension, and a variety of nobody needed her with her disability, She again had a termination some physical illnesses. never again allowed anybody to come years later, when she was a nursing close, and never married. mother and expecting a second child. Rezan (11), who was kidnapped by Noora Ali Abbas (60) sits with her She was not allowed an immediate IS in 2014 and freed in early 2019, at grandson Harreth (6) at their tent in Natalia (62) was pregnant at the time pill-induced abortion, but proceeding the Khanke IDP Camp in Dohuk, Iraqi Salamiyah IDP Camp 2, Nineveh, Iraq. of the explosion at the Chernobyl with a pregnancy she knew she was Kurdistan. Noora suffers from depression and nuclear power plant. Although the later going to end upset her deeply. anxiety and doesn’t like to let Harreth baby was born healthy, she didn’t dare Jitan (14), pictured in Khanke Village, out of her sight. risk another pregnancy as she feared Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, was kidnapped the effects of radiation. She also felt in 2014 and now speaks Arabic better than his native Kurdish.
10 11 Environment, 3rd Prize Singles Environment, 2nd Prize Singles Frédéric Noy Noah Berger France, Panos Pictures United States, for Associated Press
Lake Victoria Dying Battling the Marsh Fire A fisherman who works illegally on Lake Victoria refloats the boat Firefighters battle the Marsh Complex Fire, near the town of that he keeps hidden all day, before going fishing with a colleague, Brentwood, California, USA, on 3 August. in Murchison Bay, Uganda. The Marsh Complex Fire began near Marsh Creek Road in Contra Lake Victoria, nearly 60,000 square kilometers in area, harbors Costa County on 3 August and burned until 7 August, laying waste to immense natural resources but is threatened by industrial, more than 300 hectares of land. California usually has a fire season wastewater and agricultural pollution, over-harvesting of resources, in the fall, when strong winds blow across forests and brushland land clearance around the banks, and decreased rainfall due to that has dried out from summer heat and not yet experienced global heating. This impacts both biodiversity and the livelihoods winter rains. Many scientists attributed the early fires to the climate of more than 30 million people in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. crisis, saying that a warmer atmosphere means that the vegetation Fishing alone economically supports more than 3 million people, is drying out more than it did a century ago. Old, faulty equipment according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. belonging to the state’s largest power companies has also been Small-scale fishing is illegal because the equipment used catches blamed for sparking fires in windy weather. President Donald immature fish before they can breed, but poorer fishers cannot Trump accused the Californian state government of bad forest afford the necessary nets nor the larger boats that can take them management, saying that was the cause of the fires. beyond the worst pollution around the shoreline.
12 13 Environment, 1st Prize Singles Environment, 3rd Prize Stories Esther Horvath Katie Orlinsky Hungary, for The New York Times United States, for National Geographic
The Carbon Threat The Arctic permafrost is thawing at a faster rate than climatologists predicted, releasing carbon gases that could speed up global Polar Bear and her Cub heating. Permafrost is carbon-rich frozen soil that covers 24% of A polar bear and her cub come close to equipment placed by the Northern Hemisphere land mass. As it thaws, it releases carbon scientists from Polarstern, a ship that is part of a scientific dioxide and methane. The thaw impacts people living in the region expedition investigating the consequences of Arctic climate change, as it undermines house foundations, makes the landscape more in the central Arctic Ocean. difficult to navigate and causes ice cellars (homemade freezers dug into the permafrost) to flood and provisions to spoil. The Arctic harbors some of the fastest-retreating sea ice on Josiah Olemaun, a young whaler, takes Children cross a flooded walkway in the planet and has twice the average global heating rate. This a break from stacking whale meat Newtok, Alaska, on a summer bird will strongly affect the global climate in terms of increasing in the family ice cellar, in Utqiaġvik, hunt. Their village is rapidly sinking temperatures and sea-level rise, yet Arctic climate system Alaska, USA. and shrinking as a result of thawing processes are poorly represented in climate models because until permafrost and erosion. now scientific missions have not been able to penetrate the region The Batagaika crater, Siberia, formed during the six-month long night of the Arctic winter. The Polarstern by melting permafrost, first appeared is especially designed to withstand extremely low temperatures in the 1960s and is now nearly a kilometer long and 86 meters deep. and break through thicker ice, enabling around 100 researchers and crew to work all year round. Data on the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, ecosystem and biogeochemistry will be fed into global climate models.
14 15 Environment, 2nd Prize Stories Environment, 1st Prize Stories Maximilian Mann Luca Locatelli Germany, DOCKS Collective Italy, for National Geographic
Fading Flamingos Lake Urmia, in northwest Iran, once one of the largest salt lakes in The End of Trash - Circular Economy Solutions the world, is drying up. Intensified droughts and elevated summer For centuries, industrialized countries have followed a take-make- temperatures have sped up evaporation. Illegal wells together waste linear economy: raw materials are gathered and transformed with a proliferation of dams and irrigation projects along the into products that are sold and then discarded as waste. The model lake’s tributaries have diverted water to farm fields. Research not only drains natural resources, but also—in the demands it conducted in 2014 showed that the lake had shrunk to about 12% makes in energy consumption—exacerbates global heating. A of its 1970s size. The exposed lakebed forms a vast salt desert circular economy offers an alternative by designing waste and that cannot support agriculture and is susceptible to salt storms pollution out of the system, keeping products and materials in use, which adversely affect surrounding agriculture, and cause eye, skin and regenerating natural systems. and lung disorders. President Hassan Rouhani of Iran has pledged Staff check the algae bioreactor at a A vertical farming facility in Newark, US$5 billion over ten years to revive Urmia. pilot plant at CLEARAS Water Recovery New Jersey, USA, produces fresh A tourist takes a selfie at Lake Urmia. headquarters in Missoula, Montana, vegetables in a way that uses 5% USA. The plant cleans wastewater of the water needed in a field. Visitors walk along the shore. using algae to filter out chemicals. A ferry lies stranded at a ferry slip. Travel across the lake is no longer possible. Amager Bakke, a waste-to-energy plant near Copenhagen, Denmark, Men socialize at a traditional hammam. produces enough electricity to Farmers harvest apples near the lake. power at least 60,000 homes and heat 72,000. Rahim, who works as a shepherd, sits at home while his mother rinses produce.
16 17 Spot News, 3rd Prize Singles Spot News, 2nd Prize Singles Ramon Espinosa Dai Kurokawa Spain, Associated Press Japan, European Pressphoto Agency
Dorian’s Devastation Nairobi DusitD2 Hotel Attack Volunteers wade along a flooded road in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Women are evacuated as security forces look out for perpetrators on 3 September, after Hurricane Dorian hit the island. of an attack on the DusitD2 luxury hotel and business compound, in Nairobi, Kenya, on 15 January. Hurricane Dorian made landfall on the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama in the northern Bahamas on 1 September, reaching Five attackers threw bombs at vehicles in the parking area before Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale and breaking records as entering the hotel lobby, where one staged a suicide bombing. At the strongest Atlantic hurricane to directly impact a land mass. least 700 people were evacuated from the complex, with 21 killed Punishing winds and rising floodwaters devastated homes, crippled and 28 wounded. The Somalia-based Islamist extremist group al- hospitals, and downed electricity supplies. At least 71 people were Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack, releasing a statement killed and 9,000 homes affected, impacting some 29,500 people that called it a response to US president Donald Trump’s decision to and causing US$3.4 billion of damage, equal to about a quarter of recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The DusitD2 complex the island nation’s annual economic output. Although scientists are houses a number of international companies, and is frequented uncertain whether the climate crisis will lead to an increase in the by government officials and foreign visitors, making it a target that number of hurricanes, warmer ocean temperatures are expected to would draw media attention. The attack and subsequent security intensify wind speeds, and higher sea levels could make the impact operation lasted 20 hours, and ended with all five attackers of landfall more damaging. being killed.
18 19 Nominee, World Press Photo of the Year, Spot News, 3rd Prize Stories Spot News, 1st Prize Singles Oliver Weiken Farouk Batiche Germany, Deutsche Presse-Agentur Algeria, Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Deadly Bomb Blast in Cairo At least 20 people were killed and 47 injured in a terrorist attack outside a cancer hospital in the Kasr al-Aini area of central Cairo, Egypt, on 5 August. Egypt’s Ministry of Interior said a car carrying Clash with the Police During an Anti-Government Demonstration a bomb drove into oncoming traffic and collided with three others, Students scuffle with riot police during an anti-government triggering the explosion and a fire that forced the evacuation of demonstration in Algiers, Algeria, on 21 May. nearby buildings, including the hospital. Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfik said that the car had been packed with explosives intended Algeria had been embroiled in protests since February. Initially, for use in terrorist attacks elsewhere. The Egyptian government protests had been aimed at ousting long-time president, Abdelaziz put blame for the attack on the Islamist Hasm Movement, a violent Bouteflika, an 81-year-old veteran of Algeria’s independence breakaway faction of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was once struggle who had been in ill-health and not seen in public for some the country’s largest Islamist group, but has been banned in Egypt time. Bouteflika resigned in April, handing over to a military-backed since 2013. caretaker government, but demonstrations continued. Protesters A man reacts at the site of the attack. Men stand around the body of a victim demanded the cancellation of the presidential elections set to of the attack. take place on 4 July and a return to civilian democracy. They also People look on in the aftermath of called for the departure of government officials associated with the explosion. Onlookers gather at the site of the Bouteflika administration, including the interim president the explosion. and prime minister. Protests continued into 2020 without successful resolution.
20 21 Nominee, World Press Photo of the Year, Spot News, 2nd Prize Stories Nominee, World Press Photo Story of the Year, Matthew Abbott Spot News, 1st Prize Stories Australia, Panos Pictures for The New York Times Mulugeta Ayene Ethiopia, Associated Press
Australia’s Bushfire Crisis The annual fire season in Australia began early and was Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crash Site exceptionally severe. Far stronger wildfires than usual, mostly On 10 March, Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, a Boeing 737 MAX, battled by volunteer firefighters, raged through New South Wales crashed with enormous impact into a field, six minutes after and Victoria as well as areas in South Australia and Queensland, take-off from Addis Ababa airport, killing all 157 people on board. laying waste to bushland and rainforest and destroying homes. By Circumstances seemed similar to an earlier 737 MAX crash, in the end of January 2020, more than 30 people had been killed, 3,000 October 2018. In both cases pilots were struggling to deal with homes lost, and around 12.6 million hectares of land burned (nearly an automated safety system designed to prevent stalling, which three times the size of the Netherlands). was repeatedly pushing the nose of the plane down, even though nothing was wrong. It later emerged that American Airlines pilots Aluminum, which melts at 660.3˚C, A Boeing 737 drops fire retardant had confronted Boeing about potential safety issues with the MAX. has streamed from a burning car in Hill Top, on 21 December. in Conjola Park, New South Wales, Boeing had promised a software fix, which had not been done by the 31 December. People take refuge on a beach near time Flight ET302 crashed. Countries across the world grounded a caravan park at Lake Conjola, as fire the plane. A week after the crash, empty coffins were buried at A firefighting helicopter dumps approaches, on 31 December. a ceremony in Addis Ababa, as victims were still unable to be water on a spot fire in Hillville, on identified. Officials gave relatives bags of earth from the crash site. 12 November. Onlookers inspect debris at the crash on 13 March. Firefighters abandon their vehicle and site, on 11 March. A grieving relative is held back by flee, in Orangeville, on 5 December. Relatives mourn at a ceremony others at the crash site, on March 13. for those killed, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, on A relative throws dirt in her face as 17 March. she grieves at the crash site, on 14 March. (Nominee, World Press Photo Relatives grieve at the crash site, of the Year)
22 23 General News, 3rd Prize Singles General News, 2nd Prize Singles Ricardo García Vilanova Alessio Mamo Spain Italy, for L’Espresso
Unconscious Protester during the Tishreen Revolution Russian Mother and her Child at Al-Hol Camp A man assists a fellow protester, who became unconscious after A Russian woman carries her child while queuing at a makeshift government forces fired tear gas and smoke grenades during a hospital in ‘The Annex’, at Al-Hol Refugee Camp in northern Syria, on protest in Baghdad, Iraq, on 15 November. 14 November.
Protests began in Iraq on 1 October, directed at the government’s Al-Hol was home to tens of thousands of refugees, many of them failure to deal with unemployment, provide basic public services the wives and children of suspected Islamic State group (IS) fighters and end corruption. This escalated into calls to oust the displaced from former IS-held territory in northeastern Syria. ‘The administration and for an overhaul of the political system imposed Annex’ housed women of foreign origin. Western countries generally by the US in 2003 after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. hesitated to repatriate former IS members, citing security risks, Government forces acted with exceptional severity, firing live although some did accept orphaned children. As the campaign rounds and, according to eyewitness reports given to Amnesty against IS grew more successful, al-Hol, which was controlled by International, shooting tear-gas canisters and smoke grenades the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), overfilled and directly at protesters. A statement released by the UN on 29 conditions grew squalid, with hundreds of people, particularly November said that at least 354 people had been killed and 8,104 children, dying of disease and malnutrition. injured since the protests began.
24 25 World Press Photo of the Year Nominee, World Press Photo of the Year General News, 1st Prize Singles General News, 3rd Prize Stories Yasuyoshi Chiba Ivor Prickett Japan, Agence France-Presse Ireland, for The New York Times
ISIS and its Aftermath in Syria As the Islamic State group (IS) drew back from northern Syria, numerous fighters surrendered and tens of thousands of people, Straight Voice including wives and children of foreign IS fighters, emerged. A young man, illuminated by mobile phones, recites protest poetry Kurdish militias of the Syrian Democtratic Forces (SDF) were while demonstrators chant slogans calling for civilian rule, during a faced with the problem of what to do with so many prisoners. On 9 blackout in Khartoum, Sudan, on 19 June. October, following US withdrawal from the region, Turkey invaded northern Syria, aiming to end Kurdish control. The fate of the many Protests in Sudan began in December 2018 and spread rapidly thousands of prisoners grew even more uncertain. throughout the country, demanding an end to the 30-year rule of Ahmed Ibrahim (18), a badly burned Mohammed Ameri (6) is treated for dictator Omar al-Bashir. On 11 April, al-Bashir was removed from SDF fighter, is visited by his girlfriend multiple injuries near Baghuz, on office, and a transitional military government established. Protests at a hospital in Al-Hasakah, on 20 3 February. continued, calling for power to be handed to civilians. On 3 June, October. (Nominee, World Press Photo Men walk through a destroyed government forces opened fire on unarmed protesters. Scores of the Year) of people were killed and many more subject to further violence. neighborhood in Raqqa, northern The authorities sought to defuse protests by imposing blackouts, Women and children who have fled Syria, on 4 April. (Nominee, World one of the last areas of IS control Press Photo of the Year) and shutting down the internet. Protesters communicated by text wait on a bus before being taken to message, word of mouth and using megaphones, and resistance to a secure camp, on 7 February. military rule continued. Despite another severe crackdown on 30 June, the pro-democracy movement was eventually successful in signing a power-sharing agreement with the military, on 17 August.
26 27 General News, 2nd Prize Stories Nominee, World Press Photo of the Year General News, 1st Prize Stories Fabio Bucciarelli Italy, for L’Espresso Nicolas Asfouri Denmark, Agence France-Presse
Chile: The Rebellion Against Neoliberalism In Chile, people rose throughout the year in protest against Hong Kong Unrest economic inequality. Protesters demanded comprehensive Protests began in Hong Kong at the end of March in response to economic reform, the replacement of the constitution, and government proposals to allow extradition to mainland China, and reforms to the privatized pensions, health and education systems. gathered momentum as various pro-democracy groups united. As Demonstrations grew in size and became increasingly violent. the protests escalated, both in frequency and size, so did police According to Human Rights Watch, the authorities used excessive countermeasures. On 1 October, police fired live ammunition at force against demonstrators, including pellet shotguns that caused protesters for the first time. The bill was withdrawn on 23 October, numerous eye injuries, and were accused of abuse, including rape, but by then demands had broadened to include implementation of of people in detention. genuine universal suffrage and release of arrested protesters, and demonstrations continued into 2020. Women singing a protest song wear Demonstrators resist water-cannon red scarves and lipstick symbolizing jets during clashes in Santiago, on Police detain a protester during Riot police charge protesters on the sexual nature of police assaults, 28 November. demonstrations in the Wan Chai Nathan Road, on 1 December. and are blindfolded in solidarity with district, on 1 October. A demonstrator is carried to a first- A woman holds up an umbrella people blinded by police. aid point after inhaling tear gas, in Students cross a road to school after (a symbol of protest) during Police shoot tear gas towards Santiago on 26 November. participating in a human-chain rally, demonstrations in the Causeway protesters, on Plaza Baquedano, on 12 September. Bay district, on 1 October. Santiago, on 6 December.
28 29 Sports, 3rd Prize Singles Sports, 2nd Prize Singles Oli Scarff Silvia Izquierdo United Kingdom, Agence France-Presse Peru, Associated Press
Liverpool Champions League Victory Parade Cheering the Goal A trophy-shaped balloon floats over the crowd in Liverpool, England, Fans of Brazil’s Flamengo football team cheer as Gabriel Barbosa as football fans line the streets on 2 June during the open-top bus scores a goal against defending champions River Plate of Argentina, parade celebrating Liverpool’s win against Tottenham Hotspur in the in the final of the Copa Libertadores, broadcast on giant screens UEFA Champions League final. during a watch party at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 23 November 2019. Some 750,000 fans turned out for the parade, according to Merseyside Police. The 2-0 win at the Metropolitano Stadium, Barbosa scored two goals in the final few minutes, effecting a Madrid, Spain, the day before, delivered the first trophy for Liverpool comeback for Flamengo, who won the match 2-1 after being 0-1 since winning the English Football League Cup in 2012, and the first down for much of the game. This was the first time that Flamengo win in seven finals for coach Jürgen Klopp. Liverpool last won the had won the Copa Libertadores—South American club football’s UEFA Champions League in 2005. highest-level competition—in 38 years. The boy’s painted beard is possibly in homage to his hero Barbosa.
30 31 Sports, 1st Prize Singles Sports, 3rd Prize Stories Mark Blinch Kim Kyung-Hoon Canada, for NBAE South Korea, Reuters
Japan’s Veteran Rugby Players Tokyo’s Fuwaku Rugby Club, founded in 1948, is one of around 150 Japanese clubs that stage competitive, full-contact matches Kawhi Leonard’s Game 7 Buzzer Beater for players over the age of 40. Japan has the largest proportion Kawhi Leonard (squatting, center) of the Toronto Raptors watches of people over 65 in the world—some 28% of its population— his game-winning buzzer-beater shot go into the net, while playing according to a United Nations report. Seniors are particularly against the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference vulnerable to loneliness, with 15% of elderly men who live alone Semifinals of the 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) having fewer than one conversation in two weeks. Rugby not only Playoffs, at the Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Canada, on 12 May. keeps the players active, but offers a ready-made social life.
Fuwaku team members do stretching Wearing protective leg pads, A buzzer-beater is a successful shot made just as the buzzer exercises before a friendly match in Nagayama (center) stands together sounds to indicate the end of a game, or period in a game. Leonard’s Fukaya on 16 June. with teammates before a match. ball hit the rim as the final buzzer sounded, and bounced around four times before dropping through the net. This was the first Game Ryuichi Nagayama (center) practices Nagayama stretches as he watches 7 game-winning buzzer-beater shot in NBA history. Toronto Raptors before a match in Kumagaya. At a televised exercise program at home 86 years old, he is the club’s oldest in Tokyo. and the Philadelphia 76ers had at this point each won three games active player. of the seven-game series. After eliminating the 76ers, Toronto Raptors went on to be the first team based outside the USA to win Members of the team have a drink the NBA finals. at a restaurant after a match.
32 33 Sports, 2nd Prize Stories Sports, 1st Prize Stories Olivier Papegnies Wally Skalij Belgium United States, Los Angeles Times
The Gouandé Gazelles Rise from the Ashes The Gazelles de Gouandé from Gouandé village in northern Benin is Following a wildfire that devastated their town, members of the one of 16 football teams set up across the country with the aim of Paradise Bobcats from the small community of Paradise, California, giving young women more control over their futures through sport. USA, returned to their football field to revive the team and embark The project aims to empower women by promoting self-confidence, on a new season. Nearly everyone on the team lost their home, widening educational opportunities, and through advocacy against but the fire stopped at the edge of the football field. Players early marriage. Benin is implementing a new sports strategy in began returning when coach Rick Prinz started practices, some schools, and in January 2019 President Patrice Talon announced commuting for up to 90 minutes. They saw reviving the team as a plans for four new football schools, including one for women. part of rebuilding the community.
Yvette Saba Sambieni (center) leaves Bélassé Tchari (left) encourages her Emmie Morgan and her son Setson, Lukas Hartley (center) listens to a morning mass, having practised for a daughters’ footballing ambitions. a Paradise Bobcats running back, coach give a pep talk before their first match since dawn. comfort each other at the site of their game since the wildfire, on 22 August. Two Gazelles strikers face ‘Beton’, the burned home, on 11 June. The Dassari football team arrive in Dassari team goalkeeper, during the Emmie Morgan cheers as first Gouandé by taxi to play their first match on 24 February. Lukas Hartley deals with his responders are honored during the game of the season, against the nerves before a Paradise Bobcats Bobcats’ first game since the fire. Gazelles on 24 February. playoff game against West Valley in Cottonwood, California.
34 35 Nature, 3rd Prize Singles Nature, 2nd Prize Singles Antonio Pizarro Rodriguez Alejandro Prieto Spain, Diario De Sevilla Mexico
Roadrunner Approaching the Border Wall A greater roadrunner approaches the border wall at Naco, Arizona, USA, on 28 April. The King of Doñana Two Iberian lynx take fright after hearing shots from a hunter’s gun, The wall along the US border with Mexico, championed by near Aznalcázar, Spain, on 3 January. US president Donald Trump, will run through one of the most biologically rich and diverse regions of North America, disrupting The Iberian lynx, found in parts of Spain and Portugal, is the world’s animal corridors, their habitats and access to water and food. More most endangered feline species, according to the World Wildlife than 1,000 km of the 3,100-kilometer-long border is closed by Fund. The species has been brought to the brink of extinction by a such barricades, with the president proposing a further 800 km by number of factors, including the fragmentation of its forest habitat early 2021. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has warned that the and subsequent genetic isolation, being poached for its fur, and a impermeable barrier, associated human activity, and all-night bright decreasing food base. Rabbits, their staple diet, have been almost lights could negatively impact 23 endangered and at-risk species. eliminated from the area by rabbit hemorrhagic disease. A lynx population of some 5,000 in the early 1960s has been reduced to a few hundred, but recent surveys by the World Wildlife Fund indicate that numbers are slowly on the rise following conservation efforts.
36 37 Nature, 1st Prize Singles Nature, 3rd Prize Stories Alain Schroeder Peter Mather Belgium Canada
Wolverine, Arctic Snow Machine Wolverines are elusive, solitary animals that inhabit remote tundra and snow forests in the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia and Final Farewell North America. They can travel up to 25 kilometers a day in search The body of a month-old orangutan lies on a rescue team’s surgical of food. Tenacious predators, they prey on smaller animals such drape, near the town of Subulussalam, Sumatra, Indonesia, on 10 as rabbits and rodents, but may try for bulkier quarry if it’s injured, March. She died soon after being found with her injured mother on a feed opportunistically on larger corpses, and dig into burrows to eat palm oil plantation. hibernating animals. Large snowshoe-like paws and hydrophobic fur coats equip them well for life in the snow: the Iñupiat people of Orangutans live on just two islands in the world, Sumatra and northern Alaska particularly value the fur for lining parkas. Borneo, and are being forced out of their natural rainforest habitat, Wolverine biologist Tom Glass takes A wolverine runs along a mountain largely by farming and commercial activity. Sumatran orangutans, a picture of a wolverine’s teeth, to be ridgeline, in Brooks Mountains, Alaska. which once ranged over the entire island, are now restricted to the used for identification and a health Iñupiat hunter Quiyaan Harcharek north. According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are only around check, during a GPS collaring process, wears a wolverine-rimmed parka on 14,000 Sumatran orangutans left. As female orangutans dedicate in North Slope, Alaska, USA. a wolverine hunt in North Slope. eight to nine years raising each child before having another, A wolverine moves easily through populations are easily at risk of decline. The baby orangutan’s a snowstorm in North Slope. mother, named Hope by rescue workers, was found totally blind, with a broken clavicle and 74 air-gun wounds. She had been shot at by villagers after eating fruit from their orchards.
38 39 Nature, 2nd Prize Stories Nature, 1st Prize Stories Brent Stirton Alain Schroeder South Africa, Getty Images, for National Geographic Belgium, for National Geographic
Pangolins in Crisis Saving Orangutans Pangolins are scaly-skinned mammals, and while sometimes Indonesia’s orangutans are under severe threat from the ongoing mistaken for reptiles, they are more closely related to dogs and depletion of the rainforest, and are critically endangered. As bears than anteaters or armadillos. They range through Asia and logging, mining, and palm oil cultivation increase, orangutans find parts of Africa. Pangolin scales are highly prized in some Asian themselves squeezed out of their natural habitat. Organizations countries for traditional medicine, and the meat is considered such as the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) a delicacy. At least one million pangolins are estimated to have care for lost, injured and captive orangutans, aiming to reintroduce been poached in the last ten years. All eight pangolin species are them into the wild. Human caregivers take on the maternal role that protected, and two are critically endangered. female orangutans play, until the young are aged seven or eight, when they would naturally leave their mothers in the wild. A Temminck’s pangolin learns to forage Crime-unit officers sit with a again, near Harare, Zimbabwe, after confiscation of 3,600 kg of pangolin Mother-substitutes carry orphaned A veterinarian carries Diana, an being rescued from traffickers. scales, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. orangutans to a forest school where 8-year-old female orangutan, for a they will teach them to climb trees, final release into the wild in the Jantho A man prepares to slaughter a A sixth-generation traditional at SOCP Quarantine Centre, Sumatra. Pine Forest Nature Reserve, Sumatra. pangolin in a restaurant where the medicine doctor and his wife grind meat sells for around US$376 per pangolin scales with herbs, in Duong Fahzren, a 30-year-old male kilogram, in Guangzhou, China. Lam, Vietnam. orangutan, undergoes a routine medical check at the quarantine center.
40 41 Contemporary Issues, 3rd Prize Singles Contemporary Issues, 2nd Prize Singles Mark Peterson Sean Davey United States, Redux Pictures, for The New York Times Australia, for Agence France-Presse
Hitler’s Birthday / Easter Weekend Bushfire Evacuation Center Members of the white supremacist group Shield Wall Network Abigail Ferris (in mask) plays with friends at a temporary evacuation celebrate Hitler’s birthday, on Lake Dardanelle, Arkansas, USA, center in Bega, New South Wales, Australia, on 31 December. Abigail on 20 April. and her family had been evacuated from a nearby camping spot during bushfires on New Year’s Eve. Right-wing extremist activity has grown in the US over the past decade, according to a study published by Washington-based think Widespread drought conditions, higher than average temperatures tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The and strong winds triggered devastating bushfires in New South study points to the rise in internet and social media use by far-right Wales and other regions in Australia, well ahead of the usual groups, connections between local and international groups, and bushfire season. The months from February 2017 to the end of 2019 political developments in the US as major contributing factors. had been the driest on record in New South Wales for any 36-month Although the rise began before Donald Trump began campaigning period. University of Sydney scientists were among those who for the US presidency, the study suggests that individuals have saw the drought, low humidity and westerly winds as part of the been energized by his election. In September, US Homeland Security climate emergency. Australian prime minister Scott Morrison faced named white supremacy a leading terrorist threat. FBI director a public backlash for his response to the fires and for his continuing Christopher Wray later told the House Judiciary Committee that far- reluctance to link them to Australia’ s climate policy. right activity posed a steady threat of violence to the US.
42 43 Nominee, World Press Photo of the Year Contemporary Issues, 3rd Prize Stories Contemporary Issues, 1st Prize Singles Nicolò Filippo Rosso Nikita Teryoshin Italy Russia
Exodus A political and socio-economic crisis in Venezuela, from 2016 onwards, led to an increasing outflow of migrants from the country. Colombia feels the impact of this exodus most keenly. According to Nothing Personal - the Back Office of War the UNHCR, by October 2019 approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans A businessman locks away a pair of anti-tank grenade launchers at had left the country, of which 1.6 million were in Colombia. More the end of an exhibition day, at the International Defence Exhibition than half lacked regular status, and so had no access to health, and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on 18 education or legal employment. Even though Venezuela officially February. closed its land border with Colombia in February, around 300 clandestine crossing points remained active. IDEX is the biggest defense exhibition and conference in the People follow a path to enter Colombia Women mourn a Venezuelan migrant Middle East, and one of the biggest arms trade-fairs in the world. illegally, in North Santander, Colombia, who died in Riohacha, Colombia, 17 No official attendance figures are released, but according to UAE on 9 October 2018. August 2018. state media, the event was expected to draw 1,200 global defense specialists, 1,235 exhibitors and more than 105,000 visitors. Luis Arevalo sits mourning his sister Migrants sit in a truck at the border Attendees include defense ministers, military chiefs of staff and Luisana, in Riohacha, Colombia, on 17 town of Paraguachón, Colombia, key government decision-makers, who interact in conference August 2018. waiting for a ride to the major city of halls, social events and back-office meetings. War is staged in an Maicao, on 11 August 2018. artificial environment where mannequins and screen images take Venezuelan children wait in line for a free meal in Paraguachón, Colombia, Migrants crowd onto a truck near the the place of real people, and with outdoor demonstrations and daily on 10 August 2019. Colombia-Venezuela border, in La choreographed battle displays on water. Guajira, Colombia, on 6 July 2018.
44 45 Contemporary Issues, 2nd Prize Stories Contemporary Issues, 1st Prize Stories Steve Winter Lorenzo Tugnoli United States, for National Geographic Italy, Contrasto, for The Washington Post
The Tigers Next Door The Longest War Between 5,000 and 10,000 tigers live in captivity in the US. Roadside The Taliban made significant territorial gains and increased their zoos and other businesses breed tigers and charge guests to influence in Afghanistan in 2019, coming to control or contest pet and pose with them. Individuals also keep tigers as pets. By around half the country, in some districts acting as a shadow contrast, there are only 3,900 wild tigers in Asia and 1,659 in government. Peace talks begun in January appeared to be nearing accredited zoos worldwide. By the time cubs are four months old agreement in August, but were scuppered by US president Donald they become too large and dangerous to keep as pets, and are sold Trump in September. Fighting escalated during talks, leaving on, opening concerns that this feeds the illegal international trade Afghan forces overstretched and in some cases overwhelmed. It in tiger parts. also severely impacted the civilian population, resulting in high casualties and forced displacement. Kevin Antle poses with his staff in a Gregg Woody, owner of Woody’s pool they use in a tiger show, at his Menagerie, and his wife display an A Taliban fighter sits in a car in A group of Taliban fighters have Myrtle Beach Safari entertainment eight-week-old cub named Sophie the Khogyani district of eastern lunch in a hideout in a remote part facility in South Carolina. at the Ogle County Fair in Illinois. Afghanistan, on 11 December. of Khogyani district.
Hulk, a 12-week-old cub, is petted Owner Pat Craig and his dog make Shakila (35) stands surrounded by her An anti-mine team detonate an by the McCabe family at the Ringling the rounds of The Wild Animal Refuge, children in a shelter at the Hewad Wall improvised explosive device (IED) Animal Care Center, in Eureka in Colorado. informal settlement in Kabul. found on the Ghazni-Kandahar Springs, Arkansas. highway in eastern Afghanistan.
46 47 Long-Term Projects, 3rd Prize Daniele Volpe Italy
Elena Ramírez weeps during the be identified and buried in a named burial of two daughters who were grave, on 29 November 2017. murdered by the military in 1986, in Former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, Xecol, Chajul, on 21June 2013. who ruled Guatemala in 1982 Portraits of victims and people and 1983, testifies during his trial missing during the civil war lie, for genocide and crimes against as a protest, in front of police at humanity, in Guatemala City, on 9 the Congress of the Republic of May 2013. He was found guilty then Guatemala, Guatemala City, on 13 acquitted on procedural grounds March 2019, during discussion of at a second trial, but the trial was Ixil Genocide legislation aimed at freeing dozens seen as a milestone in holding During the 1980s, in the midst of the 1960–1996 Guatemalan of military officials and prohibiting those responsible for the atrocities Civil War, the state-backed military identified all indigenous Maya future prosecutions for war crimes. to account. peoples as guerilla supporters. The Ixil Maya community, who live near the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes in western Guatemala, were A skull and other remains found in Ixil women listen to the translation the targets of genocide. Victims of the military were often buried a clandestine grave are studied by from Spanish into their native forensics experts in Guatemala City, language, during Ríos Montt’s trial, in clandestine mass graves, while many survivors who had fled on 12 April 2013. The needles indicate Guatemala City, on 9 April 2013. to isolated mountain areas died from malnutrition and treatable four bullet wounds, which were the Feliciana Bernal, who is looking for diseases. Exhumations play an important role in gathering evidence cause of death. of civilian massacres and in reconciling survivors with their grief, her one-year-old son who died more as they are at last able to give their loved ones a dignified burial. A procession makes its way to the than 30 years previously, stands cemetery in Finca Estrella Polar, on between trenches dug by forensic The photographer sees this photo project as his contribution 20 November 2014, to bury the 77 anthropologists in Xe’Xuxcap, Nebaj, to fortifying the historical memory of the country, as a tool for victims of a massacre that took place western Guatemala, on 18 April 2013. Guatemalan people so they do not forget. in Covadonga in 1982. People watch forensic anthropologists Clothes and personal items found in exhume graves in a former military the graves of a clandestine cemetery base in Cotzal, on 12 September 2014. in Santa Avelina, Cotzál, are exhibited Members of the community attend in the hope that relatives will an exhumation in Xe’Xuxcap, on 16 recognize them, so that remains can April 2013.
48 49 Long-Term Projects, 2nd Prize Sabiha Çimen Turkey
Kevser, who is shy, uses a palm leaf Students play in the yard of a Qur’an to mask her face, at a Qur’an school school in Istanbul. in Istanbul. Asya plays with pet birds in her friend Students sing religious farewell songs Hodja’s room, at a Qur’an school during their graduation ceremony, at a in Rize. Qur’an school in Istanbul. Hafız: Guardians of the Qur’an Elif (9), a new student at a Qur’an An isolation room, where students school in Rize, wears a hijab for the Muslims who completely memorize the Qur’an are allowed to can memorize the holy texts without first time. use the title ‘Hafız’ before their names. They believe that whoever distraction, at a Qur’an school in Kars. memorizes the holy book and follows its teachings will be rewarded by Allah and will rise in status in Paradise. The Qur’an has 6,236 Sisters Gülnur (left) and Havvanur verses, and committing them to memory is a task that can take (right) graduate from a Qur’an school in Kars. three or four years and requires discipline, devotion and focus. The photographer, who attended a Qur’an school herself when she was 12, follows the daily lives of students, showing not only their journey to become hafızes, but also how they retain the dreams and adventurous nature of young women their age, as well as the rule-breaking practices and the fun of school life when they are not studying.
50 51 World Press Photo Story of the Year, Bab el-Oued residents argue in front of Friends relax and watch television in Long-Term Projects, 1st Prize a building known as ‘The Liner’, in May their diki, a converted storeroom in 2014. Bab el-Oued. Young people often seek refuge in diki—private places that are Romain Laurendeau An Ultra football fan yells after a ‘bubbles of freedom’ away from the France last-minute goal, at a match in Algiers gaze of society and from conservative on 12 February 2016. Ultras—quasi- social values. political groups of fans—play a large and sometimes violent role in protests. Ultra fans sing during a football They are known to shout out during the match in the 5 July 1962 Stadium 62nd minute of matches in reference in Algiers in December 2015. After to 1962, the year of Algeria’s liberation. street demonstrations were banned in 2001, football stadiums became Young people watch a football match places where youth could protest at the Olympia cinema in Algiers, on 16 through song. March 2016. Football, for many young men, becomes both an identity and a A young couple challenge a taboo as Kho, the Genesis of a Revolt means of escape. they kiss in a public space in Algiers, in December 2016. Young people make up more than half of Algeria’s population, Moh and his friends, all born in Bab and according to a UNESCO report 72% of people under 30 in el-Oued, hang out on their favorite Young men play football in the ‘Climat Algeria are unemployed. Pivotal moments in Algerian history terrace, in February 2016. de France’ quarter, in November 2015. have had angry youth at their core. High unemployment leads to boredom and frustration in everyday life and many young people Young people, families, women and Football fans gather in the street and feel disconnected from the state and its institutions. In neglected elders from different neighborhoods sing during a match that is taking working-class neighborhoods such as Bab el-Oued in Algiers, a mingle on 5 April in one of the large place behind closed doors due to sense of community and solidarity is often not enough to erase marches that took place weekly in violence, on 22 November 2014. the trials of poor living conditions. In February 2019, thousands of Algiers after the regular Friday Prayer, as part of the 2019 protests. Ultras chant insults against the state, young people from working-class neighborhoods again took to the the president, generals and the police streets in what became a nationwide challenge to the reign of long- A young man gathers an audience as during the final of the Algerian Cup in time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Kho (the word means ‘brother’ he experiments with a trumpet in the Algiers, on 1 May 2016. in colloquial North-African Arabic) is about the genesis of a revolt. It crowded ‘Climat de France’ quarter of is the story of the deep unease of youth, who, by daring to challenge Bab el-Oued. Nobody knows how to authority, inspired the rest of the population to join their action, play the instrument, but it generates giving birth to the largest protest movement in Algeria in decades. widespread enthusiasm.
52 53 General jury Lekgetho Makola – South Africa, head of Market Photo Workshop Lucy Conticello – Italy/USA/United Kingdom, director of Photography, M magazine, Le Monde Sabine Meyer – USA/France, director of Photography, the National Audubon Society Chris McGrath – Australia, photographer for Getty ImagesMariana Bazo, Peru, photojournalist Pete Muller – USA, photographer and multimedia producer Tanvi Mishra, India, photo editor, curator, and creative director, The Caravan
News and Documentary jury Chair: Lekgetho Makola – South Africa, head of Market Photo Workshop Julieta Escardó – Argentina, photographer, editor, educator Emmeline Yong – Singapore, co-founder and director of Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Film Michael von Graffenried – Switzerland, photographer and chair of Swiss Press Award Fiona Shields – United Kingdom, head of Photography, The Guardian News and Media Group
Portraits jury Chair: Lucy Conticello – Italy/USA/United Kingdom, director of Photography, M magazine, Le Monde Delphine Diallo – France/Senegal, photographer/visual artist Dan Winters – USA, photographer
Nature and Environment jury Chair: Sabine Meyer – USA/France, Director of photography, National Audubon Society Ian Teh – United Kingdom/Malaysia, photographer for Panos Pictures Lars Lindemann, Germany, director of Photography, GEO magazine
Sports jury Chair: Chris McGrath – Australia, photographer for Getty Images Jean-Denis Walter – France, founder and head of Gallery Jean-Denis Walter Abby Nicolas – USA, photo editor, Sports Illustrated magazine
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