Stories, West, Central, and South Asia
People examine bodies in a morgue at Al-Mujtahid Hospital, in Damascus, Syria, in the hope of finding a long-missing relative. Ahmad Ibrahim, the hospital's...
Long-Term Projects, South America
Assault, robbery, and rape have long been a grim risk of migrant journeys around the globe. But aid groups working in the Darién Gap have reported an alarming i...
Honorable Mention, Europe
Anton Gladun (22) has his wounds cleaned by hospital doctors, in Cherkasy, Ukraine. Anton, a military medic deployed on the front line in eastern Ukraine, lost ...
Honorable Mention, Europe
Yana Stepanenko (11) is carried by a doctor at a public hospital in Lviv, Ukraine. Yana, her mother Natasha (43), and her twin brother Yarik (11) were injured d...
2nd Prize, Portraits
A doctor stands at the end of her shift, the marks left by a protective mask and goggles clearly visible on her face, in Mexico City, Mexico.
2nd Prize, Contemporary Issues
Marion (24), who has metastatic cancer, embraces her son Ethan (7) in the presence of Peyo, a horse used in animal-assisted therapy, in the Séléne Palliative Ca...
2nd Prize, Portraits
Tamara (42) is a doctor and became pregnant in her sixth year at university after an affair with a man from Morocco. In the 1990s in Belarus, she felt people wo...
2nd Prize, Portraits
Inna (46) became pregnant for a second time at a point where her husband was frequently away on business, she was a student, and she and her first child were li...
2nd Prize, Nature
A sixth-generation traditional medicine doctor and his wife grind pangolin scales with herbs, in Duong Lam, Vietnam.
1st Prize, General News
Taif Fares gasps for air in the intensive-care unit at al-Sadaqa hospital, Aden, Yemen. She had a heart disorder and required constant care. Supplies of oxygen ...
1st Prize, General News
Women attend to children in the intensive care unit of al-Sadaqa hospital, Aden, Yemen. Supplies of oxygen and medicine to the hospital had been discontinued, a...
Taif Fares gasps for air in the intensive-care unit at al-Sadaqa hospital, Aden, Yemen. She had a heart disorder and required constant care. Supplies of oxygen ...
Women attend to children in the intensive care unit of al-Sadaqa hospital, Aden, Yemen. Supplies of oxygen and medicine to the hospital had been discontinued, a...
3rd prize, People in the News
At home, Kevin Buckles feeds his conjoined twins Jade and Erin, before leaving for an operation to separate them. Some weeks previously, doctors had implanted s...
3rd prize, People in the News
Melissa Buckles weeps as she prepares to hand over her four-month-old conjoined twins, Jade and Erin, for surgery to separate them. Some weeks previously at the...
3rd prize, People in the News
Kevin Buckles rests his head as he gives a bath to his daughter Taylor (2). His conjoined twins Jade and Erin Buckles will soon have surgery to separate them. S...
1st prize, Daily Life
A woman waits to see a doctor at the Lindela repatriation camp in Krugersdorp where arrested illegal immigrants are detained. Since the first South African demo...
1st prize, Nature
An abandoned child at an orphanage. It suffers from hydrocephalus, which doctors believe is a genetic mutation aggravated by hereditary exposure to radiation. T...
3rd prize, Science & Technology
Doctors in a highly specialized Emergency Burns Unit carry out a new treatment for severe burns that involves grafting skin grown in a laboratory from the patie...
3rd prize, Science & Technology
The doctor assesses a burn patient's condition and tries to illicit response to voice and touch. In a highly specialized Emergency Burns Unit doctors carry out ...