Category: Portrait Series

First Place

Tariq Zaidi / Freelance
“Sapeurs—Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congos”

Second Place

Wei Tan / Freelance
“Waiting in Limbo: Kashmir's Half-Widows”

Third Place

Adam Ferguson / Freelance
“Iraq Mental Health”

Award of Excellence

Maye-E Wong / Associated Press
“Sundays After”

Award of Excellence

Valery Melnikov / Sputnik
“Gray zone. Life in the shadow of war”

Award of Excellence

Ditte Valente / Freelance
“The men who build the Metro”

Award of Excellence

Josh Estey / Freelance
“Displaced: Portraits from Ground Zero — The aftermath of Cyclone Idai”

Award of Excellence

Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
“Oil Fisherman”

First Place

“Sapeurs—Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congos”

La Sape, Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (Society of Ambiance-Makers & Elegant People) is a fashion subculture in cities of Kinshasa & Brazzaville. Someone who follows La Sape is known as a Sapeur ("Sapeuse" for a woman).