The 2020 World Press Photo Award Winners have been announced, and we’ve learned what cameras they’ve used.
We’re going to be honest; more than anything else, the 2020 World Press Photo Award Winners are demonstrating that their talents are far surpassing the gear they’re using. However, for curiosity’s sake, it’s always cool to just know what’s being used! With today’s announcement of the winning images, we got to take a look at the photos before the announcement and analyzed what was used. Some interesting tidbits about everything are below.
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A Listing of the Cameras Used
Cameras aren’t everything, but they sure do help a photographer create the images they’re putting out there. If you look at what the stats are saying, it seems like APS-C is more than good enough for professional work despite lots of folks not believing so. We’re also seeing medium format edging more into the press world, but full-frame is still dominant. DSLRs are also still the mainstay although Mirrorless is catching up. The information also indicates that large sensor compact cameras are highly capable. Here’s the list below of what we were able to gather.
The big winners are Fujifilm and Nikon in terms of camera manufacturers. Nikon’s high-end DSLRs are popular with photojournalists but so too is the Fujifilm X series. There is one photographer using a GFX 100 (which we find positively fascinating). And while Sony seems to be dominating in Mirrorless sales, they’re not so popular amongst pros in this segment: there isn’t even a single Sony a9 in the bunch that we’ve been able to find. Nikon and Canon’s Mirrorless options are also missing from this list. But the most fascinating and eye-opening cameras are the Fujifilm X100 series, the Leica M10, and a film shooter.
8 Fujifilm Cameras
1 Leica
1 DJI
1 Film shooter
8 Nikon cameras
3 Sony cameras
5 Canon cameras
9 Mirrorless cameras
13 DSLRs
1 Drone
The Winning Images
World Press Photo of the Year: Yasuyoshi Chuba (Fujifilm X-H1)
People chant slogans as a young man recites a poem, illuminated by mobile phones, before the opposition’s direct dialog with people in Khartoum on June 19, 2019. – People chanted slogans including “revolution” and “civil” as the young man recited a poem about revolution. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
Nominee Mulugeta Ayene (Canon 5D Mk III)
An Ethiopian relative of a crash victim throws dirt in her own face after realising that there is nothing physical left of her loved one, as she mourns at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, south-east of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Thursday, March 14, 2019. About 200 family members of people who died on the crashed jet stormed out of a briefing with Ethiopian Airlines officials in Addis Ababa on Thursday, complaining that the airline has not given them adequate information.
Onlookers inspect debris at Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, March 11, 2019, where Ethiopia Airlines Flight 302 crashed Sunday. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a deadly crash involving a new aircraft model touted for its environmentally friendly engine that is used by many airlines worldwide.
Relatives hold photographs of the victims at a mass funeral at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday, March 17, 2019. Thousands of Ethiopians have turned out to a mass funeral ceremony in the capital one week after the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. Officials have begun delivering bags of earth to family members of the 157 victims of the crash instead of the remains of their loved ones because the identification process is going to take such a long time
Relatives react at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Wednesday, March 13, 2019. The black box from the Boeing jet that crashed will be sent overseas for analysis but no country has been chosen yet, an Ethiopian Airlines spokesman said Wednesday, as much of the world grounded or barred the plane model and grieving families arrived at the disaster site.
Nominee Farouk Batiche (No Camera Info)
Algerian students and riot police scuffle during an anti-government demonstration. Algeria has been embroiled in an unprecedented wave of months-long protests following the February 2019 announcement of then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to seek a fifth term in office.
Matthew Abbott Panos (Nikon D5)
A fire erupts from bushland, and engulfing ‘crowning’ the tops of the surrounding eucalyptus trees, forcing the firefighters from Fire and Rescue NSW to flee and abandon their fire truck. A video of the event, shot by the man pictured, was widely seen. The Green Wattle Creek fire, just south-west of Sydney, burned at emergency level for several days, burning out more than 35,000 hectares of land, threatening lives and property, forcing many residents to evacuate. Orangeville, NSW, Australia. Thursday 6th December 2019.
A destroyed car on a street corner in Conjola Park. The fire was so hot in the town that the aluminium in several cars melted. Pure aluminium melts at 1221 Fahrenheit or 660.3 degrees Celsius. Two people died and at least 70 properties have been lost in Conjola Park, NSW. Tuesday the 31st December 2019. Matthew Abbott For The New York Times
In Lake Conjola, a popular holiday destination, people take refuge on a beach near the caravan park as the fire approaches from the Southwest, threatening the town and destroying property. Thousands of holiday goers have been cut off and stranded without power, food and water by the New Years Eve fires. Tuesday the 31st December 2019. Matthew Abbott For The New York Times
Water is dumped by a Rural Fire Service helicopter on a spot fire. Hillville, NSW. Australia. Tuesday 12th November, 2019. Matthew Abbott for The New York Times.
Tomek Kaczor (Canon 5D Mk III)
Peter Mather (Nikon D4 and Fujifilm X Pro 2)
Wolverine biologist Tom Glass takes a picture of a wolverines teeth, to be used for identification and a health check, during the satelitte collaring process. A wolverines teeth and jaw have the power to crush the large bones of animals. This unique ability provides them with an opportunity to feed on the left overs of bear and wolf kills, two animals that don’t eat the bones of their prey.
Inupiat hunter Quiyaan Harcharek of Utqiagvik, during a wolverine and wolf hunting trip on Alaska’s North Slope. A wolverine ruff rims the outside of his parka. The wolverine ruff is the most desireable of all animal ruffs, because it wicks away moisture and is more durable than wolf skin ruff.
A wolverine running along a ridgeline in the Brooks range. They often travel on ridgelines, likely as a way to look and smell for carrion.
A wolverine moving through a snowstorm on Alaska’s North Slope. The wolverine has large snowshow like paws that enable to move efficiently on snow surfaces.
Nikita Teryoshin (No Camera Info)
A business man locks the granade launchers in at the end of the exhibition day.
Sean Davey (Canon 5D Mk IV)
Children play at the Bega Showgrounds where they are camping after being evacuated from nearyby camping sites, 31 December 2019. Picture by Sean Davey/AFP.
Antonio Pizarro Rodriguez (Canon 5D Mk III)
Ricardo Garcia Vilanova (Fujifilm X-T3)
Alessio Mamo (Canon 5D Mk IV)
Al-Hol camp section for ISIS foreign fighters women. In the photo, a Russian child in his mother’s arms, who together with other foreign women await authorization of going to buy food at the grocery store of the camp. A Russian woman is holding her baby, queueing at the makeshift hospital of the Annex, the side of al-Hol camp where 10.000 people of 48 different foreign nationalities live in the tents.
Katie Orlinsky (DJI and Canon 5Ds)
On a summer bird hunt, Kenyon Kassaiuli, Jonah Andy, Larry Charles, and Reese John cross a flooded walkway in Newtok, Alaska. May 27th, 2019. The Yupik village of Newtok, Alaska, population 380, is sinking as the permafrost beneath it thaws. Erosion has already wiped out nearly a mile of Newtok’s land, and it is estimated that in three to five years it could be underwater. The entire village is in the process of moving to Mertarvik, a new village site about nine miles away. Newtok is the first community in Alaska that has already begun relocation as a direct result of climate change—pioneering a process that many other Alaskan villages may soon undergo.
After a successful hunt, Josiah Olemaun, a young whaling crew member takes a break from moving and stacking whale meat into his family’s ice cellar in Utqiagvik, Alaska. April 29th, 2018. Ice cellars are generations-old massive underground freezers dug deep into the permafrost. As permafrost thaws it is wreaking havoc, melting what used to be permanently frozen ground and destroying and flooding many ice cellars. Others have warmed up to a point that they are unusable, spoiling whale meat and other crucial hunted foods.
The Batagaika Crater in the Siberian town of Batagay, Russia. August 8th, 2018. The crater, known as the “hell crater” to locals, is a thermokarst depression, or permafrost “megaslump.” Roughly half a mile long and 300 feet deep, the Batagaika Crater started forming in the 1960s after nearby forests were cleared, exposing the ground to sun that heated up the ground, and the permafrost underneath it (when permafrost laced with ice thaws, earth collapses and forms craters and lakes). To this day the crater continues to grow. The ancient soils of Arctic permafrost, seen in the wall of the crater, hold the organic remains of leaves, grass, and animals that died thousands of years ago, during the Ice Age. All that carbon had been safely bound in frozen earth—until now. Arctic permafrost is thawing much faster than expected, releasing carbon gases that could drastically speed up climate change.
Maximillian Mann (No Camera Info)
Luca Locatelli (DJI and Fujifilm GFX 100)
Noah Berger (Nikon D5)
Firefighters battle the Marsh Fire near the town of Brentwood in Contra Costa County, Calif. on Aug. 3, 2019.
Nicolò Filippo Rosso (Canon 5D Mk IV)
Steve Winter (Canon 5D Mk IV)
MM8750 US Tigers – The Wild Animal Sanctuary – Refuge in Southern Colorado. 10,000 acres of land for rescued cats and bears and wolves – started by Pat Craig in 1978 TWAS is the oldest and largest sanctuary in the world.
MM8750 US Tigers – Ogle County Fair, Oregon, Illinois #1 Gregg Woody presents Woody’s Menagerie Many different animals are part of his show – it ends with a young tiger cub. He has 2 Ligers also, which is a cross between a lion and a tiger. One night the show ended with tiger cub selfie’s where you could get your photo with the tiger cub.
MM8750 US Tigers – First Tiger Safari in Tuttle Oklahoma run and founded by Bill Meadows. A very BAD operation – breeding for cub petting and involved in cross state trade and ? Wynnewood Oklahoma Tigers – at Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park – made famous by Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel. Now run by Jeff Lowe. This “park” has been famous as the #1 tiger BAD breeder in the US. You can see tigers and ligers and tiligers, crossing tigers and lions and lions and tigers. They have tiger cub petting, tiger cub selfies and interactions with other small animals. Jeff,(undercover) has 9 tigers on his property in Ringling Ok, that he saved from Joe Exotic and Jeff Lowe. He does cub petting of 3 cubs he “saved” to help pay for the food of the grown tigers.
US Tigers – Doc Antle Tiger Safari in Myrtle Beach South Carolina – Tiger show – cub selfies swimming with tigers etc. Saturday morning Tourist show (3 times a week) with cub petting, tigers, elephants etc. Doc with week old tiger cubs 4 week old liger cubs. Kody Antle with a white tiger and liger. Staff in the swimming pool with tigers. 4 week old liger cubs. group of cub petting cubs – doc with cubs and female tiger
Lorenzo Tugnoli Contrasto (Sony a7r II and Sony a7r III)
GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN – DECEMBER 2: A demining team of the Afghan national army detonate an Improvised explosive device that have been found on the Ghazni-Kandahar highway. A team from camp Sultan search this road for IEDs on a daily basis and often found one or many that have been set up by the Talibans the night before. Improvised explosive devices are one to the leading cause of casualties among civilians and members of the Afghan security forces. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/ The Washington Post)
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN – DECEMBER 11: A group of Taliban fighters parade their equipment in a remote hide out in Khogiani district. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/ The Washington Post)
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN – DECEMBER 11: A group of Taliban fighters group in the morning in Khogiani district. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/ The Washington Post)
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN – DECEMBER 11: Taliban fighters drive on a road of Khogiani district and display their flag. The area was previously control by the Islamic State then retook by the Talibans. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/ The Washington Post)
Brent Stirton (Canon 5D Mk IV and Canon 5DS R)
GUANGZHOU, CHINA: A Pangolin about to be slaughtered and prepared for a meal in a restaurant on the outskirts of Guangzhou. The price for the meal was 1200 RMB per pound of the animal’s weight. Pangolin are usually force-fed liquids before being weighed to drive the price higher. The price of the meal was 8000 RMB in total, around $1142. The taxi driver who brought the photographer to this restaurant says he used to be a truck driver and brought these animals into Guangzhou from the Vietnam/China border area on a regular basis. He said law enforcement is more relaxed in border regions. The driver claimed he used to buy pangolins for around 1800 RMB and sell them for 2800 RMB to restaurants. The restaurant owner said she only sells them as live animals, people don’t want to buy them frozen. This is a highly illegal activity in China but is not uncommon today despite a heavy sentence if caught.
DUONGLAM, VIETNAM: Do Doan Quat, 71, a 6th generation traditional medicine doctor, is seen with his wife Tran Thi Thanh in their home. They are grinding two different kinds of pangolin scales and mixing them with other herbs to create a medicine supposedly good for tumors. Quat confided that he has never been convinced of the efficacy of Pangolin scales but that his clients believe in them so he uses them. He states that a lot of this kind of medicine is a testament to the power of belief. He adds that the use of pangolin parts in Vietnam was so common in the past that it was like using chickens. He says the use has declined and is not so common anymore, the recent ban has moved the trade more underground and there are very few local pangolin left. He states that much of Vietnam’s traditional medicine is imported from China. The Vietnamese tend to prioritize traditional medicine but, in an emergency, will go for Western Medicine first.
COTE D’IVOIRE: Members of the newly formed Ivorian Unit for Trans-National crime are seen with a recent confiscation of 3,600kgs of Pangolin scales in the car park of their offices. The investigative NGO Eagle worked in co-operation with this new unit to capture an Ivorian Trafficker and his 3 accomplices with over 3 tons of pangolin scales. They recently also arrested a Vietnamese trafficker who was caught with 23 ivory tusks from rare Forest Elephant as well as 600 kgs of Pangolin scales. Together this seizure represents a conservative estimate of over 11,000 pangolins. The Ivorian trafficker received one year of jail time and was out again as of the 1st of August, the Vietnamese man is still inside, his phone was full of illegal wildlife trade items. He says he is only in Ivory coast for this trade. Abidjan has a substantial Vietnamese and Chinese population. The house where he was arrested also contained weapons and drugs belonging to a Chinese man, he was also implicated in human trafficking of Ivorian women to China.
HARARE, ZIMBABWE, 24 JUNE 2018: A Temminck’s Pangolin learns to forage again after being rescued from traffickers on the Zimbabwe/South Africa border. Pangolin caregivers at this anonymous farm care for rescued, illegally trafficked pangolins, helping them to find ants and termites to eat and keeping them safe from predators and poachers. This is one of only three true Pangolin rescue and rehabilitation sites in the world. Pangolins are the world’s most illegally trafficked mammals, with an estimated one million being trafficked to Asia in the last ten year. Their scales are used in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese medicine and their meat is sold as a high-priced delicacy. As a result, pangolins are listed as critically endangered and all trade or consumption is illegal. The Tiki Hywood trust undertakes public awareness campaigns on Pangolins, trains law enforcement and judiciary personnel, conducts research, and rehabilitates pangolins that have been confiscated from the illegal trade. They are based in Zimbabwe but operate with partners across Africa and Asia.
Alain Schroder (No Camera Info)
Aceh Province, Sumatra, Indonesia Half an hour after her death, the team is still profoundly shocked. The truck pulls over and vet Zulhilmi wraps the tiny orangutan in a green surgical drape. The 1-month-old baby orangutan was rescued from a palm oil plantation with her mother, named Hope by the rescue team. Hope, secured in a cage in the back of the pick up, was found with a broken clavicle, 74 air rifle bullet wounds and totally blind. General caption Indonesia’s Sumatran orangutan is under threat from the ongoing depletion of the rainforest. As palm oil plantations, logging, mining, hunting continue to proliferate, orangutans are being forced out of their natural rainforest habitat. Organizations rescue orangutans in difficulty (lost, injured, captive…) with the goal to reintroduce them into the wild and to create genetically viable populations in protected forests. Today, with 14,000 specimens left, the Sumatran orangutan is listed as critically endangered.
Indonesia, Sumatra, Aceh province, Jantho Reintroduction Centre located in the Jantho Pine Forest Nature Reserve. At dawn, veterinarian Pandu crosses the Krueng Aceh river in a small boat carrying Diana, an 8-year-old female orangutan, for a final release. But this is not Diana’s first attempt. In 2014, she was released unsuccessfully having to return several times to the SOCP Quarantine Centre in Sibolangit for a variety of ailments. Having been domesticated, Diana had difficulty adjusting to forest food and on her last visit to the clinic, they discovered she had malaria (an extremely dangerous illness for an orangutan) that required a blood transfusion. Since, she has been on a strict diet of leaves but it remains to be seen if she will successfully adapt to the jungle this time. Diana has developed a particular bond with Pandu over the years and is so comfortable with the vet that she just climbs on his back for the ride across the river. The goal of the Jantho Reintroduction Centre is to establish a new, wild and sustainable Sumatran orangutan population within the Jantho Pine Forest Nature Reserve. Since 2011, over 100 orangutans have been released back into their natural habitat and several new births have been recorded. General caption: Indonesia’s Sumatran orangutan is under severe threat from the incessant and ongoing depletion and fragmentation of the rainforest. As palm oil and rubber plantations, logging, road construction, mining, hunting and other development continue to proliferate, orangutans are being forced out of their natural rainforest habitat. Organizations like the OIC (Orangutan Information Centre) and their immediate response team HOCRU (Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit), rescue orangutans in difficulty (lost, injured, captive…) while the SOCP (Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme) cares for, rehabilitates and resocializes orangutans at their purpose-built medical facility, aiming to reintroduce them into the wild
Sibolangit, SOCP Quarantine Centre, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Substitution mothers are on the way to the forest school with orphaned orangutans where they will teach them to climb trees. Like humans, the mother orangutan has to teach her kids everything they need to know to survive on their own. At the SOCP center, human caregivers take on that maternal role. It is the first step in a teaching, socialization and rehabilitation program with the goal of release at the age of 7 to 8 years old. This corresponds with the age when orangutans naturally leave their parents in the wild. from left to right in the front ; – orangutan FIONA, with keeper SELVI – orangutan BINTANG, – orangutan SIBRING, with keeper YANTI – orangutan IPIN with keeper MEUTYA (Vet) in the back ; – orangutan BINAWANA, with keeper YENNY (Vet) General caption: Indonesia’s Sumatran orangutan is under severe threat from the incessant and ongoing depletion and fragmentation of the rainforest. As palm oil and rubber plantations, logging, road construction, mining, hunting and other development continue to proliferate, orangutans are being forced out of their natural rainforest habitat. Organizations like the OIC (Orangutan Information Centre) and their immediate response team HOCRU (Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit), rescue orangutans in difficulty (lost, injured, captive…) while the SOCP (Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme) cares for, rehabilitates and resocializes orangutans at their purpose-built medical facility, aiming to reintroduce them into the wild and to create new self-sustaining, genetically viable populations in protected forests. That we share 97% of our DNA with orangutans seems obvious when you observe their human-like behavior. Today, with just over 14,000 specimens left, the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo Abelii) along with the 800 specimens of the recently discovered Tapanuli species (Pongo tapanuliensis), are listed as critically endangered by the International
Sibolangit, SOCP Quarantine Centre, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Fahzren is undergoing a routine medical check. Junior vet Miuthya (r) and senior vet Yenny (l) left examine the orangutan. Fahzren is 30 years old and comes from a zoo in Malaysia where he has lived since he was a baby. His medical condition is fine but he does not have the skills to survive in the wild. General caption: Indonesia’s Sumatran orangutan is under severe threat from the incessant and ongoing depletion and fragmentation of the rainforest. As palm oil and rubber plantations, logging, road construction, mining, hunting and other development continue to proliferate, orangutans are being forced out of their natural rainforest habitat. Organizations like the OIC (Orangutan Information Centre) and their immediate response team HOCRU (Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit), rescue orangutans in difficulty (lost, injured, captive…) while the SOCP (Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme) cares for, rehabilitates and resocializes orangutans at their purpose-built medical facility, aiming to reintroduce them into the wild and to create new self-sustaining, genetically viable populations in protected forests. That we share 97% of our DNA with orangutans seems obvious when you observe their human-like behavior. Today, with just over 14,000 specimens left, the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo Abelii) along with the 800 specimens of the recently discovered Tapanuli species (Pongo tapanuliensis), are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Daniele Volpe (Nikon D600 Nikon D3, Nikon D85)
Women, relatives of Cruz Pacheco family, in front to nine coffins, take part to a wake in honor of members of family that were victims of a massacre commited by Guatemalan Army in February 1982 in the village of Chisis, municipality of Cotzal. The only member of family nucleus that survived was the older son, Pedro, that was 14, who wasn’t in the village during militar operation. When he returned to the village he found his parents, his four sisters and three brothers murderd. Cotzal, November 27, 2019.
Inside the house, relatives of Juan Gomez Sambrano are taking part of a wake in his honor. Juan Gomez was murdered at 19 by Guatemalan Army together with several members of his village, Chisis, in Cotzal municipality, in February 1982. Many of them were children. The day after, relatives that survived to the massacre, will buried his remains that forensic anthropologists found in 2013. Cotzal, November 27, 2019.
Family members await the burial of a skeleton recovered in an exhumation. Xecol, Chajul. In the early eighties, the Ixil Community was one of the principal targets of a genocide operation, involving systematic rape, forced displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war. According to a 1999 United Nations truth commission, between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed and 60% of the population in the highland region were forced to flee to the mountains. By 1996, it was estimated that some 7,000 Maya Ixil had been killed. The violence was particularly heightened during the period 1979–1985 as successive Guatemalan administrations and the military pursued an indiscriminate scorched-earth. Non-fiction and non-posed picture. I took it while I followed the labor of forensic anthropologists.
Forensic anthropologists exhibit the clothes and personal objects they found in the graves with the hope that them could be reconize by the relatives and to bury the remains with a name. Although was not possible have a match of genetic profile after the DNA alalysis, there still the hope to have a sure identification in the future. In the early eighties, the Ixil Community was one of the principal targets of a genocide operation, involving systematic rape, forced displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war. According to a 1999 United Nations truth commission, between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed and 60% of the population in the highland region were forced to flee to the mountains. By 1996, it was estimated that some 7,000 Maya Ixil had been killed. The violence was particularly heightened during the period 1979–1985 as successive Guatemalan administrations and the military pursued an indiscriminate scorched-earth. Non-fiction and non-posed picture. I took it while I followed the labor of forensic anthropologists.
Ex-dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, declares in front of judge Yassmin Barrios during the genocide trial where he is the main defendant. Rios Montt died early 2018, totally unpunished. In the early eighties, the Ixil Community was one of the principal targets of a genocide operation, involving systematic rape, forced displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war. According to a 1999 United Nations truth commission, between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed and 60% of the population in the highland region were forced to flee to the mountains. By 1996, it was estimated that some 7,000 Maya Ixil had been killed. The violence was particularly heightened during the period 1979–1985 as successive Guatemalan administrations and the military pursued an indiscriminate scorched-earth. Non-fiction and non-posed picture. I took it during a court hearing of genocide trial.
Ixil women listen to the translation from Spanish to their native language during the genocide trial against Ríos Montt. In the early eighties, the Ixil Community was one of the principal targets of a genocide operation, involving systematic rape, forced displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war. According to a 1999 United Nations truth commission, between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed and 60% of the population in the highland region were forced to flee to the mountains. By 1996, it was estimated that some 7,000 Maya Ixil had been killed. The violence was particularly heightened during the period 1979–1985 as successive Guatemalan administrations and the military pursued an indiscriminate scorched-earth. Non-fiction and non-posed picture. I took it during a court hearing of genocide trial.
During an exhumation in Xe’Xuxcap, Nebaj. Place was a clandestine cemetery where forensic anthropologists found more than 30 bodies. In the early eighties, the Ixil Community was one of the principal targets of a genocide operation, involving systematic rape, forced displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war. According to a 1999 United Nations truth commission, between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed and 60% of the population in the highland region were forced to flee to the mountains. By 1996, it was estimated that some 7,000 Maya Ixil had been killed. The violence was particularly heightened during the period 1979–1985 as successive Guatemalan administrations and the military pursued an indiscriminate scorched-earth. Non-fiction and non-posed picture. I took it while I followed the labor of forensic anthropologists.
Exhumation in the former military base in Xolosinay, Cotzal. Here, forensic anthropologists found 84 bodies in various mass graves. In the early eighties, the Ixil Community was one of the principal targets of a genocide operation, involving systematic rape, forced displacements and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war. According to a 1999 United Nations truth commission, between 70 and 90% of Ixil villages were razed and 60% of the population in the highland region were forced to flee to the mountains. By 1996, it was estimated that some 7,000 Maya Ixil had been killed. The violence was particularly heightened during the period 1979–1985 as successive Guatemalan administrations and the military pursued an indiscriminate scorched-earth. Non-fiction and non-posed picture. I took it while I followed the labor of forensic anthropologists.
Sabiha Cimen (No Camera Info)
Oliver Weiken (No Camera Info)
Egyptian men react at the site of an explosion in front of the National Cancer Institute. At least 20 people died and 26 were injured in a terrorist attack for which the Egyptian government accuses the Islamist Hasm Movement.
Egyptians at the site of an explosion in front of the National Cancer Institute. At least 20 people died and 26 were injured in a terrorist attack for which the Egyptian government accuses the Islamist Hasm Movement.
An Egyptian man reacts at the site of an explosion in front of the National Cancer Institute. At least 20 people died and 26 were injured in a terrorist attack for which the Egyptian government accuses the Islamist Hasm Movement.
People surround a dead body after an explosion in front of the National Cancer Institute. At least 20 people died and 26 were injured in a terrorist attack for which the Egyptian government accuses the Islamist Hasm Movement.
Fabio Bucciarelli (Canon 5D Mk IV and Sony a7r III)
Nicolas Asfouri (Nikon D5 D850)
A woman holds up an umbrella and license plates, one that reads ‘love’, during violent protests between riot police and demonstrators in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on October 1, 2019, as the city observes the National Day holiday to mark the 70th anniversary of communist China’s founding Strife-torn Hong Kong on October 1 marked the 70th anniversary of communist China’s founding with defiant “Day of Grief” protests and fresh clashes with police as pro-democracy activists ignored a ban and took to the streets across the city. (Photo by Nicolas ASFOURI / AFP)
Riot police run towards protesters on Nathan road in Hong Kong on December 1, 2019. – Police fired tear gas and pepper spray in Hong Kong on December 1 as tens of thousands of black-clad protesters flooded into the streets, a week after pro-democracy candidates scored a landslide local election victory. (Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP)
Students cross a road as they head to school after participating in a joint ‘school human chain rally’ in Hong Kong on September 12, 2019. Hong Kong’s secondary schools have become the latest ideological battleground for pro-democracy protesters with thousands of students taking part in human chain rallies since the new academic year kicked off.
A man holds a poster as others gather at a shopping mall in the Shatin area of Hong Kong on September 11, 2019, to sing a recently penned protest song titled ‘Glory to Hong Kongí which has been gaining popularity in the city. (Photo by Nicolas ASFOURI / AFP)
Dai Kurokawa (Canon 5D Mk IV)
Women are evacuated out of the scene as security officers search for attackers during an attack on DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, 15 January 2019. A large explosion and sustained gunfire sent workers fleeing for their lives at an upscale hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. 21 people have been killed in an attack by Somalia’s Islamist militant group al-Shabab who said it was ‘a response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel’. The photo is an illustration of one of many tragic events that have taken place as results of US President Donald Trump’s action, and how it can impact ordinary people who played no role in forming US foreign policy. I think the photo shows the contrast well- the horror experienced by fleeing women, the danger they are exposed, and bravery shown by men, the soldiers and the protection they have, the walls. I was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene. The first thing I saw was cars on fire, allegedly exploded by attackers. There was no one but a few journalists, Kenyan police officers, and one western solider, who later the media identified as a British SAS member. The SAS man went in and out of the building bringing people out to safety in midst of gunshots and explosions. At one point, a Kenyan officer and the SAS man brought out a bloody, badly injured lifeless man from the building and dropped him in front of us like a sack, before going back into the building in an attempt to save more people. They didn’t say anything to us but there was no one except few of us journalists so we dropped our cameras and carried him to the first entrace of the compound. Police officers did not bother us as long as we were helping with the situation. As we continued to move around with officers searching for attackers, an officer started telling us to leave the scene.
Romain Laurendeau (Fujifilm X100, X100T, X100S)
01/05/2016, Stade du 5 juillet, Alger : Lors de la finale de la coupe d’Algérie, les Ultras scandent des insultes envers l’État, le Président, les généraux, la police. Lors des finales, l’état remplie un tiers du stade avec des officiels en uniformes : Généraux, armée, police et pompiers
22/12/2015, stade du 5 juillet, Alger : Le stade du « 5 juillet » est plein à craquer pour le match Derby MCA / USMA, deux equipes majeurs du championnat algerien. Ce stade récemment rénové après l’écroulement d’une tribune qui fit 2 morts, possède 85 000 places. Defoulement.
22/11/2014, Bologhine, Alger : Des supporters de foot chantent durant un match derby. tDues à des violences, ce match se déroule à huis-clos. Les supporters se retrouvent devant l’église Notre Dame d’Afrique afin de pouvoir entrevoir le match en contrebas.
16/03/2016, Soustara, Alger : Jeunes regardant un match de foot au cinema l’Olympia. Le cinema l’Olympia prend des allures de stade plusieurs fois par semaine lors de la retransmission des matchs européens. Les jeunes peuvent ainsi échapper à la rue pour quelques heures.
08/12/2014 climat de France, Alger, Algerie : Dans la cité de « Climat de France » de Bab El Oued, un jeune a ramené une trompette créant immédiatement un attroupement chez les petits caïds. Personne ne sait en jouer, mais l’enthousiasme est général. La trompette, instrument associé au stade est tres populaire et est considéré comme tres virile..
06/12/2016 Alger, Algerie : Jeune de Bab eel oued se retrouve dans le “diki” de ses amis dans un autre quartier. Il s’agit d’un petit debarras amenagé qui fait office de bulle de liberté loin des regards et du jugement de la société. Pour lui, cela reste exeptionnel de pouvoir juste passer du temps hors de la rue à regarder la serie “gomora”
08/12/2016 Alger, Algerie : ce jeune couple brave tous les interdits en s’embrassant dans l’espace publique. Dehors, la regle informelle est de se comporter comme frere et soeur. regulierment, La police ont l’habitude de controler les jeunes couples, menacant d’en informernles parents si ils sont mineures.
Un ancien assis dans un escalier a Bab el Oued. Les vieux de Bab El Oued ont vu apparaître le Niqab il y a une vingtaine d’année. Les mœurs se sont radicalisées depuis la decennie noire.
Ramon Espinosa (Sony a7r II)
Volunteers wade through a flooded road against wind and rain caused by Hurricane Dorian to rescue families near the Causarina bridge in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. The storm’s punishing winds and muddy brown floodwaters devastated thousands of homes, crippled hospitals and trapped people in attics.
Kim Kyung-Hoon (Canon 5D IV and Canon IDX II)
Fuwaku Rugby Club players have a drink at a restaurant after playing their match in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, May 3, 2019.
Ryuichi Nagayama, 86, Fuwaku Rugby Club’s oldest active player, stretches as he watches a televised exercising program, at his house in Tokyo, Japan, May 18, 2019. As a doctor, Nagayama is well aware of the risks involved in playing a high impact sport at his age and the club’s website gives detailed advice on health precautions and even links to a life insurance company. “Since I joined Fuwaku Club, I have broken ribs many times and broke my collarbone too,” Nagayama said. “I can’t stand not playing. That’s it… This may sound strange, but I have lost my wife years ago and now I would say I don’t mind dying playing rugby.”
Fuwaku Rugby Club players stretch before their friendly match in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, June 16, 2019. Fuwaku, founded in 1948, is one of approximately 150 Japanese clubs that stage competitive, full-contact matches for players over the age of 40.
Ryuichi Nagayama, 86, Fuwaku Rugby Club’s oldest active player, practices before a match in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, May 3, 2019. “ You tackle and battle each other, but the gathering after the play is so enjoyable and fun,” said Nagayama. “We talk about how each other plays and no one gets angry about how we played. The atmosphere is great… In short, there is nothing but rugby (for me).”
Olivier Papegnies (Leica M10)
Les Gazelles de Gouande vs. the Dassari women’s team. The two strikers of the Gazelles face “Beton” the goalkeeper of the Dassari team? Benin, Atacora, Gouande, February 24, 2019. In two years, the footballers from the village of Gouande, in northern Benin, have made their mark and blazed new trails. Refusing to be confined to the status of women who are fragile, incompetent or solely dedicated to motherhood, they have come together to defend their place on all the fields.
The women’s football team of Dassari has just arrived by bush taxi, rented for the occasion, in the village of Gouande to play their first match of the year. Benin, Atacora, Gouande, 24 February 2019. In two years, the footballers from the village of Gouande, in northern Benin, have made their mark and blazed new trails. Refusing to be confined to the status of women who are fragile, incompetent or solely dedicated to motherhood, they have come together to defend their place on all the fields.
Belasse Tchari got up every morning of his life to work in his field, feed his 7 children and buy enough money to wash their uniforms. In the remote village of Gouande, she has done everything she can so that Virginie and her two sisters can go to secondary school like their brothers. A goal that she had to achieve alone since her husband did not want to hear about it. She is also among the first mothers to have encouraged her daughter in her desire to play football, a project supported by Plan International Benin. “Many people have asked me how I could let her play when it’s a boys’ sport, but I never wanted to stop Virginie from doing something for her own development. How can I not be happy today? My daughter takes care of her health, develops a lot of knowledge and has friends all over Benin. Benin, Atacora, Gouande, Benin, Atacora, Gouande, 21 February 2019 In two years, the footballers from the village of Gouande, in northern Benin, have made their mark and blazed new trails. Refusing to be confined to the status of women who are fragile, incompetent or solely dedicated to motherhood, they have come together to defend their place on all the fields.
Virginie came to visit her uncle. Her cousins are digging up the dirt to make bricks out of it. Among the Gazelles, Virginie is a big sister. ” I always tell them that they are important, that they can make a better life for themselves. “The coach uses her as an example. A responsibility that the young woman willingly assumes. Benin, Atacora, Gouande, 21 february 2019. In two years, the footballers from the village of Gouande, in northern Benin, have made their mark and blazed new trails. Refusing to be confined to the status of women who are fragile, incompetent or solely dedicated to motherhood, they have come together to defend their place on all the fields.
Wally Skalij (Nikon D5)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA AUGUST 23, 2019-Lukas Hartley, center, listens to a coach give a pep talk before their first game of the season since the Camp Fire devastated the town last year. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA AUGUST 23, 2019-Emmie Morgan cheers as first responders are honored during their first game of the season since the Camp Fire devastated the town last year. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
Mark Blinch (Canon 1Dx Mk II)
TORONTO, CANADA – MAY 12: Kawhi Leonard #2 of the Toronto Raptors watches after hitting the game-winning buzzer beater shot against the Philadelphia 76ers to win Game Seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2019 NBA Playoffs on May 12, 2019 at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Mark Blinch/NBAE via Getty Images)
Silvia Izquierdo (Canon 5D Mk IV)
In this Nov. 23, 2019 photo, Flamengo soccer fans cheer a goal scored by Gabriel against Argentina’s River Plate in the Copa Libertadores final match, broadcast on a giant screen at a watch party at the Macarena Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Oli Scarff (Nikon D4s)
Football fans line the streets to see the Liverpool football team take part in an open-top bus parade around Liverpool, north-west England on June 2, 2019, after winning they won the UEFA Champions League final football match between Liverpool and Tottenham. – Liverpool’s celebrations stretched long into the night after they became six-time European champions with goals from Mohamed Salah and Divock Origi to beat Tottenham — and the party was set to move to England on Sunday where tens of thousands of fans awaited the team’s return. The 2-0 win in the sweltering Metropolitano Stadium delivered a first trophy in seven years for Liverpool, and — finally — a first win in seven finals for coach Jurgen Klopp. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)
Tadas Kazakevicius (Film)
Lee Ann Olwage (No Camera Info)
Tatsiana Tkachova (Fujifilm X100T and X-T10)
Natalia (name changed), 62 years old, married, one child, 1 abortion I got pregnant for the first time in April 1986, around the time of explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. If it was not the first pregnancy of a woman, the gynecologist advised not to have a baby. I was 31 and this was my first pregnancy. So the doctor told me to take a hoilday immediately and leave the Chernobyl area for some time – no one knew what the consequences after the explosion could be. Throughout the pregnancy, I was praying that my baby would be fine. I did not calm down until I gave birth and saw that everything was fine with the baby. I didn’t dare to have more children. The fear of the consequenses was the main reason why I had an abortion the second time. The other reason was the fear that I would not cope with two small children. It was painful and scary.
Alexandra (name changed) is sitting in her grandmother’s apartment. Here she spent her childhood. Now in this apartment she advises clients. Alexandra is a psychologist. The photo was taken 2018-05-05 in the city of Minsk, Republic of Belarus. Alexandra is 35 years old (1983 year of birth). She is divorced. She has a child. Alexandra made two abortions. I asked Alexander to sit in a chair opposite the cabinet. As a child, Alexandra looked into the reflections of this wardrobe and made up fairy-tale heroes; “The first time I became pregnant at the age of 23 from a man who was much older than me. I had been living alone in another country. He was my boss, who forced me to sexual relations. He did not use either condoms or other means of protecting himsef. For him, jazzing with his sperm into a woman was a thrill. I felt relieved when I had an abortion. I remember how he joked uglly and nasty that we could have a blue-eyed baby. The second story is related to my ex-husband. I was already a more mature woman. When I got pregnant, my husband and I already had a child, whom I had given birth before because of the fear to remain the infertile women. My third pregnancy I decided not to save. I understood that I no longer want a child from this man. At the time I was the breastfeeding mother and I could not have a medical abortion. It was necessary to wait for the deadline to make a vacuum. There was a terrible period: I was growing the unborn child inside with intention to kill it later.”
Diana (name changed), 91 years old, single, no children, one abortion After the war, in 1945, I was afraid of everything. My leg was amputated when I was still very young. I had to use crutches for a long time, then I got a prosthetic leg and it became easier to walk. When I was 20 years old, I got pregnant. Ivan and I were not a couple. We just met from time to time. When I told him I was pregnant, he looked at me in silence and left. His mother was against me having a baby. She said that they did not need a child from a crippled daughter-in-law, that I had to have an abortion. I was upset. I had an abortion. I thought that without a leg I was a cripple, and nobody needed me like that. I never again let anyone close, I decided that I would stay alone. All my life I worked as a seamstress in a small town in the north of Belarus. I do not regret having an abortion – I didn’t want to raise the child on my own.
Adam Ferguson (Sony a7r III)
Rezan at Khanke IDP Camp, Dohuk Province, Iraqi Kurdistan on April 20, 2019. Rezan is 11. He was kidnapped by ISIS in 2014 and freed earlier this year. How does the human soul survive atrocity? After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis — many of them children — are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world. Adam Ferguson photographed posed portraits of displaced Yazidi, a Kurdish religious minority group of some 700,000 people, most of whom lived west of Mosul in a district called Sinjar. He also photographed displaced Arab’s suffering from conflict associated trauma. He took these photographs at camps for displaced people in the Iraqi Kurdistan and in Nineveh Province, Iraq. There are 16 camps scattered around Duhok, a province smaller than Connecticut. At its peak, Duhok was home to nearly half a million people displaced by ISIS. Many have yet to return home. One camp in Mamasharn has a “psychosocial center,” where graduate students are training to treat men and women who have survived atrocity. Earlier this year, Jan Kizilhan, a prominent Kurdish psychologist from Germany who oversees the program, was meeting with Midya, an 8-year-old Yazidi girl who used to faint some 20 times a day. Kizilhan said he frequently received calls from doctors in Canada and Europe wondering what to do about fainting among Yazidis, especially among the women who had been raped. “The women are always having dissociations,” he told me. “Usually because of a trigger, a smell, or they might see something in the paper. To avoid the rape in their minds, they might faint and fall down. They live with a feeling of unreality and detachment from the world.” Trauma can devastate and reorganize autobiographical memory, making it hard for victims to feel safe in the present moment.
Noora Ali Abbas, age 60 and her grandson Harreth, age 6 at their tent in Salamiyah IDP Camp 2, Nineveh Province, Iraq on April 22, 2019. A case worker at the camp identified Noora as suffering from depression because of her trauma. Noora explained to me she has severe anxiety. Noora and and Mardhiya, claim their son and husband, Marwan Ismael Ilyas, was taken by ISIS in 2015. Harreth is stateless and unable to get an Iraqi government ID because the authorities believe the father was ISIS. Noora follows her grandson to school and can’t stop watching him because she said her sons last words were “please take care of my son”. How does the human soul survive atrocity? After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis — many of them children — are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world. Adam Ferguson photographed posed portraits of displaced Yazidi, a Kurdish religious minority group of some 700,000 people, most of whom lived west of Mosul in a district called Sinjar. He also photographed displaced Arab’s suffering from conflict associated trauma. He took these photographs at camps for displaced people in the Iraqi Kurdistan and in Nineveh Province, Iraq. There are 16 camps scattered around Duhok, a province smaller than Connecticut. At its peak, Duhok was home to nearly half a million people displaced by ISIS. Many have yet to return home. One camp in Mamasharn has a “psychosocial center,” where graduate students are training to treat men and women who have survived atrocity. Earlier this year, Jan Kizilhan, a prominent Kurdish psychologist from Germany who oversees the program, was meeting with Midya, an 8-year-old Yazidi girl who used to faint some 20 times a day. Kizilhan said he frequently received calls from doctors in Canada and Europe wondering what to do about fainting among Yazidis, especially among the women who had been raped. “The women are always having dissociations,” he told me. “Usually because of
Jiten, in Khanke Village, Dohuk Province, Iraqi Kurdistan on April 20, 2019. Jitan is 14. He was kidnapped in 2014 and now speaks Arabic much better than his native Kurdish. Several members of his family are still missing. How does the human soul survive atrocity? After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis — many of them children — are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world. Adam Ferguson photographed posed portraits of displaced Yazidi, a Kurdish religious minority group of some 700,000 people, most of whom lived west of Mosul in a district called Sinjar. He also photographed displaced Arab’s suffering from conflict associated trauma. He took these photographs at camps for displaced people in the Iraqi Kurdistan and in Nineveh Province, Iraq. There are 16 camps scattered around Duhok, a province smaller than Connecticut. At its peak, Duhok was home to nearly half a million people displaced by ISIS. Many have yet to return home. One camp in Mamasharn has a “psychosocial center,” where graduate students are training to treat men and women who have survived atrocity. Earlier this year, Jan Kizilhan, a prominent Kurdish psychologist from Germany who oversees the program, was meeting with Midya, an 8-year-old Yazidi girl who used to faint some 20 times a day. Kizilhan said he frequently received calls from doctors in Canada and Europe wondering what to do about fainting among Yazidis, especially among the women who had been raped. “The women are always having dissociations,” he told me. “Usually because of a trigger, a smell, or they might see something in the paper. To avoid the rape in their minds, they might faint and fall down. They live with a feeling of unreality and detachment from the world.” Trauma can devastate and reorganize autobiographical memory, making it hard for victims to feel safe in the present moment.
Alon Skuy (Canon 5D Mk IV)
Professional dancer, Musa Motha , A South African performer who dances on crutches, poses for a picture in Newtown, Johannesburg. “23-year-old Musa Motha uses gravity to perfect his technique and his work is getting him noticed abroad. “ Motha’s leg was amputated when he was 11-years-old after being diagnosed with cancer. “He had dreams of being a professional soccer player but quickly realised that he wouldn’t be able to pursue this dream. He joined the Vuyani Dance Theatre last year and found his passion.” The company was involved with the University of KwaZulu Natal Drama and Performance Department Pietermaritzburg when they hosted internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and scriptwriter Gregory Maqoma at this year’s Dance Experia Festival. The festival included a masterclasses which was open to the public and ended with a solo performance of Ketima by Maqoma, followed by Rise by Vuyani Dance Theatre choreographers.
Ivor Prickett (Canon 5D Mk IV)
A young Kurdish SDF fighter was visited by his girlfriend for the first time, after he had been badly burnt during a battle with Turkish forces on the Syrian-Turkish border several days before. Initially she was unable to enter the room because she was so horrified by his injuries. Eventually she was coaxed into the room by a nurse and managed to hold his hand a have a short conversation.
Women and children in the foreigners section of al-Hawl detention camp, pushed to be allowed to get out of their guarded section of the camp in order to be able to go to the main market in another area.
Two men walked through a heavily destroyed neighbourhood in Raqqa, where only four families had returned to live since the cities liberation from ISIS more than a year before.
Women and children, who had fled the last area of ISIS control around the village of Baghuz, were crammed onto buses by Kurdish security forces at a screening point in the desert before being transported to secure camps further north in Kurdish controlled north east Syria.
