Award of Excellence | Photographer of the Year


	First Place Daniel Berehulak Reportage By Getty Images/The New York Times
	Second Place Marcus Bleasdale Freelance
	Third Place Massimo Berruti Freelance
	Award of Excellence Paolo Marchetti Freelance
	Award of Excellence Sergey Ponomarev Freelance for The New York Times

Award of Excellence
Sergey Ponomarev
Freelance for The New York Times

An Afghan girl reads a book in front of her class at the Mir Ali Akhmed school in Chahankal, Parwan province, Afghanistan, Thursday April 11 2013.