The winning images of the 61st World Press Photo Contest

By worldpressphoto.org - Globaltimes.cn, Published: 2018-04-13 16:57:44

This image was captured by AFP photographer Ronaldo Schemidt and won the World Press Photo of the Year in the 61st World Press Photo Contest. It shows José Víctor Salazar Balza (28) on fire amid the violent clashes with riot police during a protest against President Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela on May 3, 2017. Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/Agence France Presse/VCG

Editor's Note:

The winning images from the 61st World Press Photo Contest were selected from 73,044 images that were taken by 4,548 photographers from 125 different countries. The winners were announced on April 12, 2018. (Photos: VCG)

This image was shot by German photographer Jesco Denzel and won the 1st prize singles in Contemporary Issues in the 61st World Press Photo Contest. It displays a boat with tourists from Lagos Marina going through the canals of the Makoko community, an ancient fishing village that has grown into an enormous informal settlement, on the shores of Lagos Lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria on February 24, 2017. Photo: Jesco Denzel/VCG

This image, from conservationist photographer Neil Aldridge and won 1st prize singles in Environment in the 61st World Press Photo Contest, shows the moments before a young southern white rhinoceros, drugged and blindfolded, is about to be released into the wild in Okavango Delta, Botswana on September 21, 2017. It was relocated from South Africa for its protection from poachers. Southern white rhinos are classified as ‘near threatened’. Photo: Neil Aldridge/VCG

This image was captured by Australian photographer Patrick Brown and won the 1st prize singles in General News in the 61st World Press Photo Contest. The bodies of Rohingya refugees are laid out after a boat capsized as they attempted to flee Myanmar on September 28, 2017. They were about 8 kilometers off Inani Beach, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Around 100 people were on the boat before it capsized, and only 17 survived. Photo: Patrick Brown/Panos Pictures, for UNICEF/VCG

This series of photos taken by Dutch photographer Carla Kogelman won 1st prize stories in Long-Term Projects in the 61st World Press Photo Contest. It shows brothers Martin and Christian, who spend their summer holidays in Waldviertel, watching Alena in one of the barns on August 6, 2017. Hannah and Alena are two sisters who live in Merkenbrechts, a bioenergy village of around 170 inhabitants in Waldviertel, an isolated rural area of Austria, near the Czech border. Photo: Carla Kogelman/VCG

This image from American photographer Corey Arnold won 1st prize singles in Nature in the 61st World Press Photo Contest. A bald eagle scavenges meat scraps from garbage bins from a supermarket in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, USA, on February 14, 2017. Photo: Corey Arnold/VCG

This image was captured by Swedish photographer Magnus Wennman and won 1st prize singles in People in the 61st World Press Photo Contest. Djeneta (right), who has been bedridden and unresponsive for two-and-a-half years, and her sister Ibadeta, who hasn’t been responsive for over six months, with uppgivenhetssyndrom (resignation syndrome), in Horndal, Sweden, on March 2, 2017. Photo: Magnus Wennman/VCG

This image, from British AFP photographer Oliver Scarff, won 1st prize singles in Sports in the 61st World Press Photo Contest. It shows members of opposing teams, the Up’ards and Down’ards, grappling for the ball during the historic, annual Royal Shrovetide Football Match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK, on February 28, 2017. Photo: Oliver Scarff/VCG