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The World Press Photo Foundation believes in the power
of showing and the importance of seeing high-quality
visual stories.

It all began in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers
organized an international contest (“World Press Photo”) to
expose their work to a global audience. Since then the contest
has grown into the world’s most prestigious photography
competition, and the worldwide exhibition travels to more
than 120 cities in 50 countries, reaching millions of people.
Along with our annual festival and the World Press Photo
House in Amsterdam, it showcases stories that make people
stop, feel, think and act.

Our contests reward the best in visual journalism and digital
storytelling. Our Develop programs - including the 6x6 Global
Talent Program, the African Photojournalism Database, the
Joop Swart Masterclass, the Solutions Visual Journalism
Initiative and the West Africa Visual Journalism Fellowship -
encourage diverse accounts of the world that present stories
with different perspectives. Witness, our online magazine,
publishes new talent and new thinking in visual journalism
and storytelling.

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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.

                                                                 This year 4,282 photographers from 125 countries
                                                                 entered73,996 photographs to the contest. These visual
                                                                 stories are judged in terms of their accurate, fair, and
                                                                 compelling insights about our world. All entrants accept the
For over six decades, the World Press Photo Foundation           code of ethics, and all winning pictures go through a rigorous
has been working from its home in Amsterdam as an                verification process, ensuring they can be trusted to show the
independent, nonprofit organization. In that time, new           scene witnessed by the photographer. The contest is judged
developments in media and technology have transformed            by a jury comprising leading photography professionals,
journalism and storytelling. Our mission has expanded,           and its membership of the jury changes every year. They are
and we draw on our experience to guide visual journalists,       independent of the World Press Photo Foundation, and it is
storytellers, and audiences around the world through this        the jury alone that chooses the winning pictures and stories
challenging and exciting landscape.                              that matter.

We support the conditions that make visual journalism and        #WPPh2020
storytelling possible, including the freedom of expression,
freedom of inquiry, and freedom of the press. The need for
images and stories we can trust has never been greater, and
the high-quality reports in this exhibition and on our media
channels bring you important insights about our world.
Sometimes that is done with beautiful photographs and
sometimes that requires presenting difficult stories, but they
are all accurate and they all matter.

We are supported by our global partner, the Dutch Postcode
Lottery, and our partners, Aegon and PwC. We appreciate the
help of our partners, contributors, supporters, Associates,
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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.

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Nominee, World Press                                                    Portraits, 3rd Prize Stories
Photo of the Year,
Portraits, 1st Prize Singles                                            Tadas Kazakevičius
                                                                        Lithuania
Tomek Kaczor
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.

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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.

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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.

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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
                                                                       in the 1960s and is now nearly a
is especially designed to withstand extremely low temperatures
                                                                       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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Nominee, World Press Photo of the Year,
Spot News, 2nd Prize Stories
                                                                                        Nominee, World Press Photo Story of the Year,
                                                                                        Spot News, 1st Prize Stories
Matthew Abbott
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)

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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.

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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
government forces opened fire on unarmed protesters. Scores                                                              Men walk through a destroyed
                                                                        of the Year)
of people were killed and many more subject to further violence.                                                         neighborhood in Raqqa, northern
                                                                        Women and children who have fled                 Syria, on 4 April. (Nominee, World
The authorities sought to defuse protests by imposing blackouts,
                                                                        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.

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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.

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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.

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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
                                                                       before a match in Kumagaya. At           a televised exercise program at home
7 game-winning buzzer-beater shot in NBA history. Toronto Raptors
                                                                       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.

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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.

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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.

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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
north. According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are only around                                                 Iñupiat hunter Quiyaan Harcharek
                                                                        check, during a GPS collaring process,
14,000 Sumatran orangutans left. As female orangutans dedicate                                                     wears a wolverine-rimmed parka on
                                                                        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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
                                                                        Venezuelan children wait in line for a
artificial environment where mannequins and screen images take
                                                                        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.

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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.

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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
                                                                        a clandestine grave are studied by             from Spanish into their native
the targets of genocide. Victims of the military were often buried
                                                                        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
diseases. Exhumations play an important role in gathering evidence                                                     Feliciana Bernal, who is looking for
                                                                        cause of death.
of civilian massacres and in reconciling survivors with their grief,                                                   her one-year-old son who died more
                                                                        A procession makes its way to the              than 30 years previously, stands
as they are at last able to give their loved ones a dignified burial.
                                                                        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.

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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.
                                                                                                                  Elif (9), a new student at a Qur’an
Hafız: Guardians of the 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
                                                                      (right) graduate from a Qur’an school
verses, and committing them to memory is a task that can take
                                                                      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.

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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

Romain Laurendeau                                                          An Ultra football fan yells after a
                                                                                                                        refuge in diki—private places that are
                                                                                                                        ‘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.
                                                                           Algiers after the regular Friday Prayer,
the trials of poor living conditions. In February 2019, thousands of
                                                                           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.

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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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