Awards

Spot News

First Place

Abed Rahim Khatib
DPA
Palestine

First Place

Mohammad Abu Elsebah
DPA
Palestine

First Place

Mohammad Abu Elsebah
DPA
Palestine

Finalist

Erçin Ertürk
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Finalist

Firdous Nazir
Independent
India

Finalist

Evrim Aydin
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Finalist

Ahmed Zakot
DPA
Palestine

Finalist

Marwan Naamani
DPA
Lebanon

Finalist

Mohammed Talatene
DPA
Palestine

Award of Excellence

Sedat Suna
EPA
Turkey

Award of Excellence

Enes Yıldırım
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Award of Excellence

Shashi Shekhar Kashyap
The Hindu
India

Portraits

First Place

Ebrahim Alipoor
Independent
Iran

Finalist

Oded Wagenstein
Independent
Israel

Finalist

Seyyed Matin Hashemi Aghajari
Independent
Iran

Finalist

Oded Wagenstein
Independent
Israel

Award of Excellence

Supratim Bhattacharjee
Independent
India

Award of Excellence

Arun Bhaskar
Independent
India

Nature & Environment

First Place

Adnan Abidi
Reuters
India

Finalist

Dan Han
Independent
China

Finalist

Sathiyaseelan Subramanian
Indhu Tamizh Thisai
India

Finalist

Himanshu Vats
Independent
India

Award of Excellence

Lakshitha Karunarathna
Independent
Sri Lanka

Award of Excellence

Vivek Sagar
Independent
India

Recreational & Traditional Sports

First Place

Rajendra Mohan Pandey
Independent
India

Finalist

KyungHoon Kim
Reuters
South Korea

Finalist

Javid Nikpour
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Evgenii Filippov
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

S R Hossain
Independent
India

Sports Action

First Place

Javid Nikpour
Independent
Iran

Finalist

Sathiyaseelan Subramanian
Indhu Tamizh Thisai
India

Finalist

Seyyed Matin Hashemi Aghajari
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro
Independent
Portugal/Macao

Award of Excellence

KyungHoon Kim
Reuters
South Korea

General News

First Place

Ilia Yefimovich
DPA
Israel

Finalist

Mar Naw
Independent
Myanmar

Finalist

Erçin Ertürk
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Finalist

Ilia Yefimovich
DPA
Israel

Award of Excellence

Abhishek N. Chinnappa
Independent
India

Daily Life

First Place

Supratim Bhattacharjee
Independent
India

Finalist

Ilia Denbrov
Independent
Russia/Kyrgyzstan

Finalist

Zohre Sabagh Nejad
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Leung Man Hei
Independent
Hong Kong

Daily Life Picture Story

First Place

Burning North

Chenglong Zhang
Independent
China

Finalist

Traveler Chicken “Paçalı”

Sebnem Coskun
Anadolu Agency
Turkey

Finalist

The last wedding at grandma’s house

Jalal Shamsazaran
Independent
Iran

Award of Excellence

Lebanon: Food crisis

Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Independent
Spain/Lebanon

Award of Excellence

Mpu Uteun : The Forest Guardian

Yoppy Pieter
Independent
Indonesia

Portrait Series

First Place

Gender and national apartheid

Keiwan Fatehi
Middle East Images
Iran/Iraq

Finalist

15-year-old earthquake survivors

Qiu Yan
Independent
China

Finalist

Post Soviet Stories

Marylise Vigneau
Independent
France/Austria/Pakistan

Finalist

This Is Us (?)

Riska Munawarah
Independent
Indonesia

Award of Excellence

The Dreamers (searching for love in the darkest times)

Sergei Stroitelev
Independent
Russia/Germany

Award of Excellence

Unveiling the Unseen

Farzana Akhtar
Independent
Bangladesh

Issue Reporting Picture Story

First Place

Abuse of Power

Igor Skabelin
Independent
Russia

Finalist

No More Children in My Motherland

Hayun Chun
Independent
South Korea

Finalist

In Human Seize

Maho
Independent
Iran

Finalist

War and War

Maxim Babenko
Independent
Russia

Finalist

Uranium Dreams

Маша Чудная
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

Aabuku

Moe Suzuki
Independent
Japan

Award of Excellence

Revolution in Myanmar

Ta Mwe
Sacca Photo
Myanmar

Award of Excellence

Taiwan’s last generation to fight China

Ann Wang
Reuters
Taiwan

Cultural Practices

First Place

Veiled by Cloud and Mist

Yixi Tian
Independent
China

Finalist

Iranians’ desire for freedom Movement

Anonymous
Independent
Iran

Finalist

Peking Wood

Xiangfeitian
Independent
China

Award of Excellence

Ancestral Faith

Ksenia Maksimova
Independent
Russia

Award of Excellence

The Future of Food

Lauren DeCicca
Independent
USA/Thailand

Award of Excellence

Pehlivan

Onur Coban
Independent
Turkey

Award of Excellence

The Rite of the Second Burial

Sirachai Arunrugstichai
Independent
Thailand

Photographer of the Year, Asia

Photographer of the Year, Asia

Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Independent
Spain/Lebanon

Finalist

Marina Sycheva
Independent
Russia

Finalist

Darya Aslanyan
Independent
Russia

Finalist

Sergei Stroitelev
Independent
Russia/Germany

Award of Excellence

Dmitry Ermakov
Independent
Russia