Winners of the World Press Photo Contest 2020

Yasuyoshi Chiba, Agence France-Presse, won the World Press Photo of the Year award, and the first prize in the General News Singles category. | A young man, illuminated by mobile phones, recites protest poetry while demonstrators chant slogans calling for civilian rule, during a blackout in Khartoum, Sudan on June 19, 2019.

Adam Ferguson for The New York Times, won first prize in the Portraits Stories category. | Rezan (11), who was kidnapped by IS in 2014 and freed in early 2019, at the Khanke IDP Camp in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan on April 20, 2019.

Tomek Kaczor for Duzy Format, Gazeta Wyborcza, won first prize in the Portraits Singles category and was also a nominee for the World Press Photo of the Year. | Ewa, a 15-year-old Armenian girl who has recently woken from catatonic state brought on by Resignation Syndrome, sits in a wheelchair, flanked by her parents, in a refugee reception center in Podkowa Lesna, Poland on June 1, 2019.

Nikita Teryoshin which won first prize in the Contemporary Issues Singles category, and was also a nominee for the World Press Photo of the Year. | A businessman locks away a pair of anti-tank grenade launchers at the end of an exhibition day, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on February 18, 2019.

Ramon Espinosa, The Associated Press, won third prize in the Spot News Singles category. | Volunteers wade along a flooded road in Freeport, Grand Bahama on September 3, 2019, after Hurricane Dorian hit the island.

Tadas Kazakevicius, won third prize in the Portraits Stories category. | Vitalija, wife of an artist who has passed away, stands beside a boat her late husband was planning to restore, on the Curonian Spit, Lithuania on July 27, 2018.

Mulugeta Ayene, Associated Press, won the first prize in the Spot News Stories category, and was nominated for both the World Press Photo of the Year award, and the World Press Photo Story of the Year award. | A relative of a victim of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 plane crash throwing dirt in her face as she grieves at the crash site, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 14, 2019.

Mulugeta Ayene, The Associated Press, won first prize in the Spot News Stories category and was also nominated for the World Press Photo Story of the Year. | Relatives grieve at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 13, 2019

Mulugeta Ayene, The Associated Press, won first prize in the Spot News Stories category and was also nominated for the World Press Photo Story of the Year. | Onlookers inspect debris at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 11, 2019.

Noah Berger for The Associated Press, won second prize in the Contemporary Issues Singles category. | Firefighters battle the Marsh Complex Fire, near the town of Brentwood, California, United States on August 3, 2019.

Mulugeta Ayene, The Associated Press, won first prize in the Spot News Stories category and was also nominated for the World Press Photo Story of the Year. | Relatives of a victim of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 crash mourn at a ceremony for those killed, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 17, 2019, a week after the incident.

Katie Orlinsky for National Geographic, won third prize in the Environment Stories category, Kenyon Kassaiuli, Jonah Andy, Larry Charles, and Reese John cross a flooded walkway in Newtok, Alaska, United States, on an early summer bird hunt on May 27, 2019. Their village is rapidly sinking and shrinking as a result of warming weather, thawing permafrost and erosion.

Mark Blinch for NBAE, which won first prize in the Sports Singles category. | Kawhi Leonard (squatting, center) of the Toronto Raptors watches his game-winning buzzer-beater shot go into the net, while playing against the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs, at the Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Canada on May 12, 2019.

Alain Schroeder for National Geographic, won first prize in the Nature Stories category. | Mother-substitutes carry orphaned orangutans to a forest school where they will teach them to climb trees, at SOCP Quarantine Centre in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia on January 22, 2019.

Romain Laurendeau, won the World Press Photo Story of the Year award, and the first prize in the Long Term Projects category, A young man gathers an audience as he experiments with a trumpet in the crowded 'Climat de France' quarter of Bab el-Oued, Algiers, Algeria on December 8, 2014. Nobody knows how to play the instrument, but it generates widespread enthusiasm.

Daniele Volpe won third prize in the Long Term Projects category. | Clothes and personal items found in the graves of a clandestine cemetery in Santa Avelina, Cotzál, are exhibited in the hope that relatives will recognize them, so that remains can be identified and buried in a named grave. November 29, 2017.

Romain Laurendeau won the World Press Photo Story of the Year award, and the first prize in the Long Term Projects category. | Football fans gather in the street and sing during a match that is taking place behind closed doors due to violence, in Algiers, Algeria on November 22, 2014.

Alain Schroeder for National Geographic won first prize in the Nature Stories category. | A veterinarian carries Diana, an eight-year-old female orangutan, for a final release into the wild in the Jantho Pine Forest Nature Reserve, Sumatra on April 11, 2019. Since 2011, more than 100 orangutans have been released back into their natural habitat at Jantho, and several new births have been recorded.

Mulugeta Ayene, The Associated Press, won first prize in the Spot News Stories category and was also nominated for the World Press Photo Story of the Year. | Relatives of a victim of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 crash mourn at a ceremony for those killed, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 17, 2019, a week after the incident.

Silvia Izquierdo, The Associated Press, won second prize in the Sports Singles category, Fans of Brazil's Flamengo football team cheer as Gabriel Barbosa scores a goal against defending champions River Plate of Argentina, in the final of the Copa Libertadores, broadcast on giant screens during a watch party at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on November 23, 2019.

Sean Davey, Agence France-Presse, won the second prize in the Contemporary Issues Singles category. | Abigail Ferris (in mask) plays with friends at a temporary evacuation center in Bega, New South Wales, Australia on December 31, 2019. Abigail and her family had been evacuated from a nearby camping spot during bushfires on New Year's Eve.

Oli Scarff, Agence France-Press, won third prize in the Sports Singles category. | A trophy-shaped balloon floats over the crowd in Liverpool, England, as football fans line the streets during the open-top bus parade celebrating Liverpool’s win against Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Champions League final on June 2, 2019

Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, which won third prize in the General News Singles category. | A Russian woman carries her child while queuing at a makeshift hospital in 'The Annex', at Al-Hol Refugee Camp in northern Syria on November 14, 2019.

Ivor Prickett for The New York Times, won third prize in the General News Stories category and was a nominee for the World Press Photo of the Year. | Ahmed Ibrahim (18), an SDF fighter badly burned in conflict with Turkish forces, is visited by his girlfriend at a hospital in Al-Hasakah on October 20, 2019. She had at first been unable to enter the room, as she was horrified by his injuries, but a nurse encouraged her to go in to hold Ahmed's hand and have a short conversation.

Matthew Abbott, Panos Pictures for The New York Times, won second prize in the Spot News Stories category, Aluminum, which melts at 660.3℃, has streamed from a burning car in Conjola Park, a town where bushfires razed more than 89 properties, in New South Wales, Australia on December 31, 2019

Nicolas Asfouri, Agence France-Presse, won first prize in the General News Stories category and was a nominee for the World Press Photo Story of the Year, A woman holds up an umbrella (a symbol of protest) during demonstrations in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on October 1, 2019, the day police first used live ammunition against protestors.

Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto for The Washington Post, part of a series which won first prize in the Contemporary Issues Stories category. | An Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) anti-mine team detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) found on the Ghazni-Kandahar highway in eastern Afghanistan on December 2, 2019. IEDs are one of the leading causes of casualties among civilians and members of the ANDSF.

Esther Horvath for The New York Times, won first prize in the Contemporary Issues Singles category. | A polar bear and her cub come close to equipment placed by scientists from Polarstern, a ship that is part of a scientific expedition investigating the consequences of Arctic climate change, in the central Arctic Ocean on October 10, 2019.

Luca Locatelli for National Geographic, part of a series which won first prize in the Environment Stories category. | Amager Bakke, a waste-to-energy plant that replaced an old coal incineration plant, near Copenhagen, Denmark, produces enough electricity to power at least 60,000 homes and heat 72,000. Advanced filtration technology reduces emissions of noxious nitrogen oxides to almost zero. October 4, 2019.

Sabiha Cimen, won second prize in the Long Term Projects category, Students skip in the yard of a Qur'an school in Istanbul, Turkey on December 17, 2019.

Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times, won first prize in the Sports Stories category, Emmie Morgan cheers as first responders are honored during the Paradise Bobcats' first game on August 23, 2019 since the fire that devastated their town.

Frederic Noy, Panos Pictures, which won third prize in the Contemporary Issues Singles category. | A fisherman who works illegally on Lake Victoria refloats the boat that he keeps hidden all day, before going fishing with a colleague, in Murchison Bay, Uganda on January 9, 2019

Alon Skuy, Sunday Times, won third prize in the Portraits Singles category. | Professional dancer Musa Motha, who dances on crutches, poses after a practice session in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa on September 18, 2019.

Lee-Ann Olwage, won second prize in the Portraits Singles category, Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie, a drag artist and activist, poses at a shisanyama, a community space where women cook and sell meat, in Khayelitsha, a township located on the Cape Flats, near Cape Town, South Africa on August 4, 2019.

Oliver Weiken, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, won third prize in the Spot News Stories category. | Men stand around the body of a victim of a car bomb attack in Cairo, Egypt on August 5, 2019.

Brent Stirton, Getty Images for National Geographic, part of a series which won second prize in the Nature Stories category, A man reaches for a pangolin that is about to be slaughtered and prepared for a meal in a restaurant on the outskirts of Guangzhou, China on January 4, 2019. Pangolin meat at the restaurant sells for around US $376 per kilogram.

Farouk Batiche, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, which won first prize in the Spot News Singles category and was also nominated for the World Press Photo of the Year. | Students scuffle with riot police during an anti-government demonstration in Algiers, Algeria on May 21, 2019.