Awards

Spot News

First Place

Rafiq Maqbool
AP
India

Finalist

Andrea Verdelli
Independent
Italy/China

Finalist

Muhammad Zaenuddin
Independent
Indonesia

Award of Excellence

Zobayer Joati
Independent
Bangladesh

Award of Excellence

Dicky Bisinglasi
Independent
Indonesia

Award of Excellence

Hong-ji Kim
Reuters
South Korea

Portraits

First Place

Elham Abbasloo
Independent
Iran

Finalist

Elif Ozturk
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Finalist

Margaret Liang
Independent
China/UK

Finalist

Elham Abbasloo
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Qiang Li
Independent
China/USA

Award of Excellence

Vân-Nhi Nguyen
Independent
Vietnam

Nature & Environment

First Place

Lisa Marie David
Reuters
Philippines

Finalist

Andrea Verdelli
Independent
Italy/China

Finalist

Ren Yong
Independent
China

Award of Excellence

Pratik Chorge
Independent
India

Award of Excellence

Samuel Ang
Independent
Singapore

Recreational & Traditional Sports

First Place

Sudipta Chakraborty
Independent
India

Finalist

Doni Wilson Apriel
Independent
Indonesia

Award of Excellence

Erçin Ertürk
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Sports Action

First Place

Gilad Kavalerchik
Independent
Israel

Finalist

Yong Teck Lim
Getty Images
Singapore

Finalist

Elif Ozturk
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Award of Excellence

Aizuddin Saad
New Straits Times
Malaysia

Award of Excellence

Fei Maohua
Xinhua
China

General News

First Place

Ezra Acayan
Getty Images
Philippines

Finalist

Lisa Marie David
Reuters
Philippines

Finalist

Pratik Chorge
Independent
India

Award of Excellence

Matichai Teawna
The101.world
Thailand

Award of Excellence

Anthony Kwan
Getty Images
Hong Kong

Award of Excellence

Aditya Aji
Independent
Indonesia

Daily Life

First Place

Jack Taylor
Independent
UK/Thailand

Finalist

Ugur Yildirim
Independent
Turkey

Finalist

Saber Ghazi
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Ugur Yildirim
Independent
Turkey

Award of Excellence

Zheng Xinqia
Beijing News
China

Award of Excellence

Chong Jun Liang
The Straits Times
Singapore

Daily Life Picture Story

First Place

From Day to Day

Sergei Stroitelev
Independent
Russia/Georgia

Finalist

Eyes: Cloudy to Clarity

Narendra Shrestha
EPA
Nepal

Finalist

Echo in the Mountains

Svetlana Bulatova
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

Pskov Tortuga

Mikhail Lebedev
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

The Same Song

Yang Yang
Independent
China

Award of Excellence

Born and Raised

Vladislav Bulenkov
Independent
Russia

Portrait Series

First Place

Russian Anti-war Emigration

Anastasia Shubina
Independent
Russia/Armenia

Finalist

Co-Dependance

Darya Aslanyan
Independent
Russia

Finalist

Path to Liberty

Anonymous
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Colour of Cold

Pavel Volkov
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

Locked in Heaven

Ehsan Noortaqani
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

One Year On: The Women Determined to Work in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

Lillian Suwanrumpha
Agence France-Presse
Thailand

Award of Excellence

The Dominance

Maryam Saeedpoor
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

I’ll Take You Away

Marina Sycheva
Independent
Russia

Issue Reporting Picture Story

First Place

How Was Everything, Before All This Ruin?

Ameen Abo Kaseem
Independent
Syria

Finalist

The Malachite Casket

Katerina Churbakova
Independent
Russia/Cyprus

Award of Excellence

New Heights of Suffering

Louise Delmotte
Independent
France/Hong Kong

Award of Excellence

Sri Lanka Economic Crisis

Adnan Abidi
Reuters
India

Award of Excellence

Covid Crackdown

Louise Delmotte
Independent
France/Hong Kong

Cultural Practices

First Place

Behind The Snow

Sergei Stroitelev
Independent
Russia/Georgia

Finalist

Between Two Lakes

Alexander Sharr
Independent
Russia

Finalist

Place of Power

Natasha Lozinskaya
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

I’ll be looking at the moon, but I’ll be seeing you

Hari Katragadda
Independent
India

Photographer of the Year, Asia

Photographer of the Year, Asia

Sergei Stroitelev
Independent
Russia/Georgia

Finalist

Ugur Yildirim
Independent
Turkey

Award of Excellence

Nazanin Hafez
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Thomas Peter
Reuters
Germany/China