World Press Photo Contest 2019 Winners
The winner: crying girl on the border, by John Moore. Yanela, from Honduras, cries as her mother, Sandra Sanchez, is searched by a US border patrol agent, in McAllen, Texas, US. This image was also nominated in the “spot news” category. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images/World Press Photo 2019)
General news, singles winner: the disappearance of Jamal Kashoggi, by Chris McGrath. An unidentified man tries to hold back the press as Saudi investigators arrive at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, amid a growing international backlash against the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images/World Press Photo 2019)
Photo story of the year, winner: The Migrant Caravan. During October and November 2018, thousands of Central American migrants joined a caravan heading to the US border. The caravan, assembled through a grassroots social media campaign, left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on 12 October 2018, and as word spread drew people from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. (Photo by Pieter Ten Hoopen/Agence VU/Civilian Act/World Press Photo 2019)
Contemporary issues, stories winner: Blessed Be the Fruit. Ireland’s Struggle to Overturn Anti-Abortion Laws. Women fold a cloth in front of a banner reading “Our toil doth sweeten others”, created by the artist Alice Maher, at the Eva international art festival in Limerick. Campaigners used art to open conversations on topics previously considered off-limits in a conservative society. (Photo by Olivia Harris/World Press Photo 2019)
Contemporary issues, singles winner: The Cubanitas, by Diana Markosian. Pura rides around her neighbourhood in a pink 1950s convertible, as the community gathers to celebrate her 15th birthday, in Havana, Cuba. (Photo by Diana Markosian/Magnum Photos/World Press Photo 2019)
Environment, singles winner: Akashinga – the Brave Ones, by Brent Stirton. Petronella Chigumbura, 30, a member of an all-female anti-poaching unit called Akashinga, undergoes stealth and concealment training in the Phundundu wildlife park, Zimbabwe. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images/World Press Photo 2019)
General news, stories winner: Yemen crisis, by Lorenzo Tugnoli. A veiled woman begs outside a grocery store in the village of Azzan, Yemen, which was under the control of al-Qaida until the Shabwani elite forces liberated the area in December 2017. Over the past year, the shadow war between al-Qaida and local Yemeni fighters has intensified. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/The Washington Post/Contrasto/World Press Photo 2019)
Environment, stories winner: Almajiri Boy, by Marco Gualazzini. An orphaned boy walks past drawings on a wall depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in Bol, Chad. This image was also nominated as part of a set in the “photo story of the year” and “environment story” categories. (Photo by Marco Gualazzini/Contrasto/World Press Photo 2019)
Long-term projects, winner: Garett, an upper ranking Young Marine, dances with his girlfriend at an annual ball in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Students from the programme, along with family and close friends, meet for an evening to honour cadets and their accomplishments. The evening begins with dinner and speeches, and ends with a dance. (Photo by Sarah Blesener/Redux/World Press Photo 2019)
Nature, stories winner: A falcon hunting camp in the desert outside Abu Dhabi, UAE. This camp uses captive-bred Houbara bustards, the preferred prey species of Arab falconers across the region. In the UAE, where a huge amount has changed over the last 60 years, falconry is seen as a link back to the past and to the ancient culture of the Bedouin. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images/National Geographic/World Press Photo 2019)
Portraits, singles winner: Dakar fashion, by Finbarr O’Reilly. Curious residents and a street vendor selling material look on as models Diarra Ndiaye, Ndeye Fatou Mbaye and Malezi Sakho wear outfits by the Senegalese designer Adama Paris in the Medina neighbourhood of Senegal’s capital, Dakar. (Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly/World Press Photo 2019)
Portraits, stories winner: A collaborative project about the mythology of twinhood and how paradoxical beliefs regarding twins manifest in Nigeria. West Africa has more twins than any other region in the world. Communities have developed cultural practices in response, from veneration to demonisation. In some areas the twin spirit is worshipped and celebrated. In others, twins are vilified, persecuted and killed for their perceived role in bringing bad luck. (Photo by Benedicte Kurzen & Sanne de Wilde/Noor/World Press Photo 2019)
Sports, singles winner: Morin Ajambo, a boxer and mother of seven, trains in the Katanga slum in Kampala, Uganda. (Photo by John T. Pedersen/World Press Photo 2019)
Sports, stories winner: Iran’s Persepolis football club misses an opportunity in a counterattack during the final match of the AFC Championship League against Japan’s Kashima Antlers in Tehran. (Photo by Forogh Alaei/World Press Photo 2019)
Nature, singles winner: Frogs with their legs severed struggle to the surface, surrounded by frogspawn, after being thrown back into the water in Covasna, Romania. (Photo by Bence Mate/World Press Photo 2019)
This incredible picture of a woman covered in blood in Kabul was one of the star entries at the photographic awards. (Photo by Andrew Quilty/World Press Photo 2019)
Olympic champion Claressa Shields (right) smashes Hanna Gabriels in a boxing match in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Terrell Groggins/World Press Photo 2019)
Being pregnant after Farc child-bearing ban, by Catalina Martin-Chico. Yorladis is pregnant for the sixth time, after five other pregnancies were terminated during her Farc years in Colombia. She says she managed to hide the fifth pregnancy from her commander until the sixth month by wearing loose clothes. Yorladis and her partner live in a house in a temporary camp in Colinas. (Photo by Catalina Martin-Chico/Panos/World Press Photo 2019)
A child lying on a mattress surrounded by a garbage patch floating on the Pasig River in Manila, Philippines. (Photo by Mario Cruz/World Press Photo 2019)
Wrestlers grease up before a match at the Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival, in Sarayiçi, Turkey. (Photo by Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/World Press Photo 2019)
The moment a puma tries to take down a full-grown female llama on the Torres del Paine, Chile. (Photo by Ingo Arndt/National Geographic/World Press Photo 2019)
A wild Saker Falcon mother and her chicks high over the steppe of Central Mongolia. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images for National Geographic/World Press Photo 2019)
Two women stand on a mound before a church service in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria. (Photo by Bénédicte Kurzen/Noor and Sanne de Wilde/World Press Photo 2019)
A young child gasps for air in the Intensive Care Unit of the al-Sadaqa Hospital, in Yemen. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/The Washington Post/Contrasto/World Press Photo 2019)
A family slaughter a pig at a Mennonite camp in Mexico to mark the arrival of the “small moon”. (Photo by Nadia Shira Cohen/World Press Photo 2019)
Year-old puma cubs feed from the remains of an adult guanaco, in Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile. (Photo by Ingo Arndt/National Geographic/World Press Photo 2019)