[ GENERAL NEWS ] A single photograph of a news event or social issue for which planning was possible. Each participant is allowed to enter up to 5 images. The images must be taken in 2023.

Judges for General News
Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay
Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay
Jessica Lim
Jessica Lim
Joshua Irwandi
Lam Chun Tung
Lam Chun Tung
Saiyna Bashir
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First Place

Ilia Yefimovich
DPA
Israel

06 June 2023, Palestinian Territories, Nabi-Saleh: The mother of the 3-years-old boy Mohammed al-Tamim, who died of his wounds days after being shot by Israeli troops in the West Bank, carries his body during his funeral in the Nabi-Saleh village near the West Bank City of Ramallah.

Finalist

Mar Naw
Independent
Myanmar

PLA fighters with the emblem of the Tanintharyi PDF stand at a village controlled by the resistance in Tanintharyi Region on October 16.

Finalist

Erçin Ertürk
Anadolu
Turkey

36 year-old Gulendam Avcioglu was rescued under rubbles of a collapsed building 101 hours after the 7.7- and 7.6-magnitude earthquakes in Hatay. Her husband did not leave the rubble all that time and was more than happy to see his wife evacuated. Hatay, city in southern Turkey, was hit on February 6, 2023. The quakes took over 50,500 lives and left 105,000 injured. Around 14 million people have been affected by the quakes as well as many others in northern Syria. Search and rescue operations lasted for weeks. Over 11,300 personnel from 90 countries came to Turkey for help, including Austria, France, Mexico, and South Korea.

Finalist

Ilia Yefimovich
DPA
Israel

Tel-aviv, Israel: Eritrean asylum seekers clashes with police on 2 September,2023.Clashes erupted ahead of event that was planed to take place in Tel-aviv organized by Eritrean embassy.

Award of Excellence

Abhishek N. Chinnappa
Independent
India

WESTERN GHATS, INDIA - DECEMBER 05: A mahout (elephant caretaker) clings to the dead body of his Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) and wails after it was killed in an encounter with a wild elephant near a coffee estate on December 05, 2023, in the Western Ghats, Karnataka, India.