Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 Winners

The winners of this year’s Istanbul Photo Awards, organised by Anadolu Agency, have been announced.


Photo of the Year 2021 & Single News First Prize. Mohammed Shajahan’s photograph titled Mom Love, selected from among nearly 15,000 photographs submitted from different parts of the world, won the Photo of the Year 2021 award. (Photo by Mohammed Shajahan/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)

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Single News Second Prize. Members of the MS-13 and 18 gangs in an overcrowded cell at Quezaltepeque prison in El Salvador. (Photo by Yuri Cortéz/AFP Photo/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Single News Third Prize. Refugees and migrants carrying their belongings flee a fire burning at the Moria camp on the north-eastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Single Sports First Prize. Football players of the Bohemians 1905 Prague thank their fans after a match against FK Pribram. (Photo by Vondrouš Roman/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Single Sports Second Prize. Garrett Gerloff (31) and Sandro Cortese (11) crash in the World Superbike warm-up during the World Championship on Phillip Island, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/AAP Photo/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Single Sports Third Prize. Georg Filser-Mayerhofer of Germany climbs a log pile while doing some bouldering training in Kochel Am See, Germany. (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


News Story Second Prize. A woman grieves the death of her mother who was killed in an attack on the village of Karayusuflu, in the Barda district of Azerbaijan. (Photo by Ugur Yildirim/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


News Story First Prize. Italian Red Cross operatives enter the house of a patient suspected of having contracted Covid-19 in Nembro. (Photo by Fabio Bucciarelli/The New York Times/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


News Story Third Prize. Artist and musician Raymond Essayan plays a piano in a destroyed building following the port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Sports Story First Prize. A game of Kok Boru, the national sport, in the village of Sovietkoe,40 km from Karakol in Kyrgyzstan. (Photo by Alain Schroeder/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Sports Story Second Prize. Canoeist Jiri Prskavec trains in front of his house during a coronavirus state of emergency in the Czech Republic. (Photo by Barbora Reichová/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Sports Story Third Prize. Children practise during a karate lesson in Aleppo, Syria. (Photo by Anas Alkarboutli/dpa/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Daily Life Story First Prize. Marion, who has metastatic cancer, embraces her son Ethan in the presence of Peyo, a horse used in animal-assisted therapy, in the Séléne Palliative Care Unit at the Centre Hospitalier de Calais, in Calais, France. (Photo by Jeremy Lempin/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)


Portrait Story First Prize. Armin Karami won for Foreign Mirror, a series of portraits made in Iran. (Photo by Armin Karami/Middle East Images/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021)

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