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Nominated for the main category "
World Press Photo
": A woman and a man argue about whether a memorial in Washington, DC, where a black man kneels in front of US President Lincoln should be removed.
The photographer Evelyn Hockstein captured the scene - she is also in the
running
in the “
Spot News
”
category
.
Photo: Evelyn Hockstein / Evelyn Hockstein / The Washington Post
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An Armenian family has to leave their home in Nagorno-Karabakh after the armed conflict with Azerbaijan flared up again.
The photograph by Russian Sputnik photographer Valery Melnikov is
in the final selection
for the main category »
World Press Photo
«.
Photo: Valeriy Melnikov / Valery Melnikov
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For the first time in five months, the 85-year-old resident of a nursing home in São Paulo is hugged again.
After no visits were allowed due to the corona pandemic, a "hugging curtain" was installed.
The Danish photographer Mads Nissen captured the moment in Brazil - and qualified for the last six in the competition for the “
World Press Photo
” of the year, and the picture is also included in the “
General News
”
category
.
Photo: Mads Nissen / Politiken / Panos Pictures / Mads Nissen / Politiken / Panos Pictures
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The difficult situation of LGBTQ + people in Russia is illustrated by this photo by Oleg Ponomarev.
It shows Ignat, a trans man, with his girlfriend Maria in Saint Petersburg.
According to a law that came into force in 2020, people are no longer legally allowed to change the gender entered in the birth certificate.
The photo is nominated in the main category »
World Press Photo
« - and also in the
portrait
category.
Photo: Ponomarev_Oleg / Oleg Ponomarev
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In early 2020, Kenya experienced the worst plague of locusts in 70 years.
The Spaniard Luis Tato photographed a man who fought against a huge swarm in the Archers Post settlement in Samburu County - a candidate for the “
World Press Photo
” 2021. The picture is part of a report series that is also featured as a story in the “
Nature
«Is nominated.
Photo: Luis Tato for The Washington Post / Luis Tato / The Washington Post
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The Italian photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli from the Contrasto agency captured the despair of a man for the Washington Post who witnessed the destruction caused by the great explosion in the middle of Beirut on August 4, 2020.
It is one of the six pictures that made it into the final selection in the main category »
World Press Photo
«.
The picture comes from a series that was included in the "
Spot News
"
category
is nominated
.
Photo: Lorenzo Tugnoli / Lorenzo Tugnoli / Contrasto / The Washington Post
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In the “
World Press Photo Story of the Year
”
category
, the strongest photo series will be awarded a prize.
Among the three stories qualified for the final selection is that of the Canadian photographer Chris Donovan, who accompanied the Flint Jaguars basketball team.
The jaguars give the crisis-ridden city in the US state of Michigan stability - but were hit hard even by the corona crisis.
(The report is also nominated in the »
Sport
« category.)
Photo: Chris Donovan
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In a photo report for the Getty agency entitled »Habibi«, the Italian Antonio Faccilongo shows extraordinary love and family stories: It is about Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
In the picture a pair of twins whose father has been imprisoned for life since 2003;
his semen was smuggled out for artificial insemination.
The series is nominated in the categories “
World Press Photo Story of the Year
” and “
Long-Term Projects
”.
Photo: Antonio Faccilongo / Antonio Faccilongo / Getty Reportage
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The third report series nominated for the “
World Press Photo Story of the Year
” award is “Paradise Lost” by Valery Melnikov from the Russian Sputnik agency (as well as in the “
General News
”
category
).
Scenes from the armed conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh are shown - and what consequences it has for the people.
Some set fire to their homes before fleeing the region.
Photo: Valeriy Melnikov / Valery Melnikov
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Another scene from the Nagorno-Karabakh war: a soldier finds a moment of calm on a plastic sheet in the trenches.
The picture by Armenian photographer Vaghinak Ghazaryan is in the final selection for the »
Contemporary Issues Singles
«
category
.
Photo: Vaghinak Ghazaryan
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Also nominated in “
Contemporary Issues Singles
”: Jérémy Lempin's admission from the palliative care department of a clinic in Calais, France, where animals are used in therapy.
Photo: JEREMY LEMPIN / Jérémy Lempin
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The third nominated single image in the »
Contemporary Issues Singles
«
category
shows the Yemeni woman Fatima and one of her nine children fishing.
She returned to her village, which had been destroyed by the civil war.
She was photographed by Pablo Tosco, Argentina.
Photo: Pablo Tosco
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A series by US photographer Maya Alleruzzo has been nominated for the AP agency
in the “
Contemporary Issues Stories
” category.
It shows Yazidi survivors of the "Islamic State" in northern Iraq.
Photo: Maya Alleruzzo / Maya Alleruzzo / AP
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Also among the last three in the “
Contemporary Issues Stories
”
category
: Zishaan A Latif documented the consequences of anti-Muslim unrest in the northeast of the Indian metropolis of Delhi.
Photo: Zishaan A Latif
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The photo reportage »Sakhawood« by Alexey Vasilyev is also nominated for the category »
Contemporary Issues Stories
«.
It shows the growing local film industry in the northeastern Russian region of Yakutia.
Photo: Alexey Vasilyev
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Nominated for the
best
single
picture
in the thematic category »
Environment
«
: a photo by KM Asad from Bangladesh.
There is a lack of water in the village of Kalabogi, and a woman is collecting morning dew.
Photo: KM Asad
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This photo by Hkun Lat shows the consequences of jade mining in Myanmar.
Demand from China in particular has risen sharply in recent years.
The photo is nominated as a single image in the »
Environment
« category.
Photo: Hkun Lat
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Also
in the race
as the best single image in the »
Environment
« category: A Californian sea lion plays with an FFP2 mask in the sea off Monterey.
The shot by Ralph Pace shows the danger posed by disposable masks to wildlife.
Photo: Ralph Pace
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The Pantanal in Brazil is the largest tropical wetland on earth.
Large parts of it were destroyed by fire.
Lalo de Almeida documented this catastrophe on behalf of the newspaper “Folha de São Paulo” - the series is nominated in the story category in the subject area “
Environment
”.
Photo: Lalo de Almeida / Folha de São Paulo
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The photo report by Aitor Garmendia, which is also nominated for the story category on the subject of »
Environment
«,
reports from inside the Spanish meat industry
.
Photo: Aitor Garmendia
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»Make your own glaciers« - this is the motto of the photo series for »National Geographic« by the Slovenian Ciril Jazbec, with which he is among the candidates for the best
environmental
story.
It's about the ice formations that the inhabitants of the northern Indian region of Ladakh pile up in winter so that they can give them water in summer.
Photo: Ciril Jazbec
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The “
General News
”
category
is of course shaped by the pandemic.
One of the nominations is this recording of a wrapped Covid 19 victim from Indonesia.
Joshua Irwandi took photos of the body on the hospital bed.
Photo: Joshua Irwandi
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Newsha Tavakolian from Magnum Photos agency photographed these women mourning General Qasem Soleimani for Time magazine.
The Iranian military leader was killed in a US attack.
The photo is nominated in the "
General News
" category.
Photo: Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum for Time Magazine / Newsha Tavakolian / Magnum / Time Magazine
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A photo series by Laurent Geai about the pandemic in France is nominated in the story category "
General News
".
Here in the picture: 45 sick people from the Paris area were transported on April 10 in TGV high-speed trains to Bordeaux and Poitiers, where there were still free beds.
Photo: Laurence Geai
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Also in the selection for the story category in the »
General News
« area is a report from the border area between Switzerland and Germany.
At the end of April, Roland Schmid photographed how people deal with the fact that national borders are becoming more important again due to the pandemic.
Photo: Roland Schmid
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The series by Polish photographer Karolina Jonderko is nominated
in the “
Long-Term
Projects” category.
Under the title »Reborn« she photographed realistically designed dolls as well as people's emotional reactions to them.
Photo: Karolina Jonderko / Karolina Jonderko / Napo Images
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Another
long-term project
is “Trapped in Greece” - about people who have been stuck in Greece since the height of the refugee crisis in 2016.
The photographer Angelos Tzortzinis has worked in refugee camps on the islands of Samos (here in the picture) and Lesbos.
Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis / Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation
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Subject category
»
Nature
«: Here the Spaniard Jaime Culebras is nominated for the photography of glass frog eggs in Ecuador.
Photo: Jaime Culebras
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Also in the
nature
competition: A Rothschild giraffe is brought to safety from a flooded island in western Kenya - photographed by Ami Vitale for CNN.
Photo: Ami Vitale / CNN
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There are still some specimens of the Florida panthers in the Everglade swamps.
She photographed Carlton Ward Jr. in her habitat, which is threatened by colonization, and he is nominated in the "
Nature
" category.
Photo: Carlton Ward Jr.
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In the
nature
story category, Ezra Acayan from the Philippines is in the running - with spectacular pictures of the eruption of the Taal volcano.
Photo: Ezra Acayan / Ezra Acayan / Getty Images
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A completely different form of
nature
photography: Jasper Doest documented his family's lockdown friendship in Vlaardingen in the Netherlands with two domestic pigeons - Ollie and Dollie.
Photo: Jasper Doest
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The
pandemic has also left its mark on
portrait
photography.
Here a doctor in Mexico City at the end of her shift - taken by Iván Macías.
Photo: Iván Macías
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A father teaches his autistic daughter to start a model airplane.
The photo of Tatiana Nikitina, taken in Moscow, is in the running for the best
portrait
.
Photo: Tatiana Nikitina
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"The Ameriguns" is nominated
in the story category in the field of "
portraits
".
Gabriele Galimberti from Italy portrayed gun owners in the USA for "National Geographic" - like here Torrell Jasper, known as Black Rambo.
Photo: GABRIELE GALIMBERTI / Gabriele Galimberti / National Geographic
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Natalia Kepesz has
portrayed the
young participants in military summer camps in Poland
and is nominated for this series.
Photo: Natalia Kepesz
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The Russian photographer Alisa Martynova has portrayed African immigrants in Italy - her series entitled “Nowhere Near” has been
nominated
for the
portrait
award
in the story category
.
Photo: Alisa Martynova
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In the
»Sport«
category
, this shot of the fall in the final sprint of the first stage of the Tour de Pologne is in competition.
Tomasz Markowski caught the drivers Dylan Groenewegen (left) and Fabio Jakobsen (right) in flight.
Photo: Tomasz Markowski
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Sport
knows no age limit: Irishman Stephen McCarthy captured the 87-year-old Masters athlete Pat Naughton while training under Corona conditions for the Sportsfile agency.
Photo: Stephen McCarthy / SPORTSFILE / Stephen McCarthy / Sportsfile
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Australian photographer Adam Pretty also recorded a Corona evasive training in Kochel am See: Because climbing halls and other
sports
facilities were closed, Georg Filser-Mayerhofer climbed a pile of wood.
Photo: Adam Pretty / Getty Images
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The Iranian parkour athlete Saeed Ramin was seriously injured seven years ago.
Despite his paralysis, he continues to train and has regained some of his skills.
Fereshteh Eslahi portrayed him for Podium Photos.
The picture is nominated in the
sports
story category.
Photo: Fereshte Eslahi \ Podium Photos / Fereshte Eslahi \ Podium Photos
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The photo series by Henrik Hansson, who is also nominated in the
sports
category
, shows how the bridge club in Borlänge, Sweden is dealing with the pandemic
.
Photo: Henrik Hansson
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This recording by Olga Sieviaryniec, who is waiting for her husband Paval in front of a prison in Minsk, is nominated
in the “
Spot News
”
category
.
He was arrested for supporting an opponent of Alexander Lukashenko's presidential election in Belarus.
Paval Sieviaryniec is still not at large in early 2021.
Nadia Buzhan took the photo of the wife waiting for free.
Photo: NADIA BUZHAN / Nadia Buzhan
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Also in “
Spot News
”: Nuno André Ferreira, who photographed this child for Agência Lusa on the edge of a large forest fire in Oliveira de Frades, Portugal.
Photo: Nuno Andre Ferreira / Nuno André Ferreira / Agência Lusa
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In the story category of "
Spot News
" photography, the pictures of AFP photographer Ernesto Benavides are in the running, who documented the state crisis in Peru, where the president was removed from office in November.
Photo: ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AGENCIA FRANCE PRESSE / Ernesto Benavides / AFP
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Also nominated for “
Spot News
Stories”: John Minchillo's photo coverage for the Associated Press about the protests in Minneapolis after the violent death of George Floyd in a police operation.
Photo: John Minchillo / John Minchillo / AP
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