Awards

COVID-19

First Place

Ulet Ifansasti
Independent
Indonesia

Finalist

Garry Lotulung
Independent
Indonesia

Finalist

Anindito Mukherjee
Independent
India

Finalist

Meysam Maleki Qazvini
Independent
Iran

Finalist

Anupam Nath
AP
India

Award of Excellence

Karma Bhutia
Zuma Press
India

Award of Excellence

Shin Wei Chang
Central News Agency
Taiwan

Award of Excellence

Firdaus Latif
Malay Mail
Malaysia

Spot News

First Place

Finalist

Finalist

Erdem Sahin
EPA
Turkey

Finalist

Ohad Zwigenberg
Haaretz
Israel

Award of Excellence

Mustafa Hassona
Anadolu Agency
Palestine

Award of Excellence

Lauren DeCicca
Independent
USA/Thailand

Award of Excellence

Dar Yasin
AP
India

Portraits

First Place

Finalist

Finalist

Majid Saeedi
Independent
Iran

Finalist

Santanu Dey
Independent
India

Finalist

Award of Excellence

Watsamon Tri-yasakda
Women Photograph
Thailand

Award of Excellence

Aytaç Ünal
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Nature & Environment

First Place

Finalist

Jianxing Zhu
Xijiang Daily
China

Finalist

Agoes Rudianto
Independent
Indonesia

Award of Excellence

Erdem Sahin
EPA
Turkey

Award of Excellence

Sebnem Coskun
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Award of Excellence

Ezra Acayan
New York Times
Philippines

Recreational & Traditional Sports

First Place

Finalist

Qiang Li
Yihe Images
China

Finalist

Ebrahim Alipoor
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Nikolay Losev
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

Ebrahim Alipoor
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Yam G Jun
Independent
Malaysia/Kyrgyzstan

Covid Picture Story

First Place

A Failed Response

Ezra Acayan
Getty Images
Philippines

Finalist

An Uncertain Future for Thailand’s Elephants

Jittrapon Kaicome
Independent
Thailand

Finalist

Myanmar’s Covid Crisis

Ta Mwe
Sacca Photo
Myanmar

Finalist

Nomad Vaccination

Dar Yasin
AP
India

Award of Excellence

Gasping for Air

Anindito Mukherjee
Independent
India

Award of Excellence

The New Name of Death

Farshid Tighehsaz
VII Photo
Iran

Award of Excellence

Indonesia Battles Second Wave of Covid-19

Award of Excellence

Life of Volunteer

Kyaw Zay Yar Lin
Independent
Myanmar

Covid Expressions

First Place

Somewhat Lost

Richa Chandru Bhavanam
Independent
India

Finalist

Terminal

Peng Yi Hang
Independent
Taiwan

Finalist

I am lost, look, and find me!

Karim Mottaghi
Mamaat Art Collective
Iran

Award of Excellence

Away From Others

Ali Hamed Haghdoust
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Parallel

Issue Reporting Picture Story

First Place

TikTok in Kham

Xiangyu Long
Independent
China

Finalist

The Garden’s Crossroads

Pang Hai
Independent
China

Finalist

Finalist

China’s crackdown on Hong Kong

Louise Delmotte
Independent
France/Hong Kong

Finalist

Deportation

Anastasia Shubina
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

Sorrow & Defiance: Under Taliban rule, Afghan women navigate a landscape of loss

Marcus Yam
Los Angeles Times
USA

Award of Excellence

Myanmar’s Uprising

Ta Mwe
Sacca Photo
Myanmar

Award of Excellence

Self-Immolation among the Kurdish Women

Shaghayegh Moradiannejad
Independent
Iran/Canada

Award of Excellence

Land of Continuous Conflict

Majid Saeedi
Independent
Iran

Cultural Practices

First Place

Tompo

Alexey Vasilyev
Independent
Russia

Finalist

Red Tourism: China’s Political Pilgrimages

Roman Pilipey
EPA
Ukraine/China

Finalist

Finalist

“Unripe Passion”, Picked Too Soon

Zohre Sabagh Nejad
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Fairy Tales End

Elena Kalyuzhnaya
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

Dark Site

Mikhail Lebedev
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

We Live To Fight

Zobayer Joati
Independent
Bangladesh

Award of Excellence

Theologians

Sergey Pronin
Independent
Russia

Photographer of the Year, Asia

Winner

Roman Pilipey
EPA
Ukraine/China

Finalist

Marcus Yam
Los Angeles Times
USA

Finalist

Ezra Acayan
Getty Images/New York Times
Philippines

Finalist

Award of Excellence

Sergei Stroitelev
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

Dar Yasin
AP
India