World Press Photo competition: the winners

The best pictures contributing to the past year of visual journalism that will be included in an exhibition touring the world

Picture of the Year: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the Mexican border in McAllen, Texas. They had travelled across the Rio Grande on a raft before being detained by the US Border Patrol and sent to a processing centre
Picture of the Year: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the Mexican border in McAllen, Texas. They had travelled across the Rio Grande on a raft before being detained by the US Border Patrol and sent to a processing centre
JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES/EPA
The Times
Environment, singles, winner: “Akashinga — the Brave Ones”. Petronella Chigumbura, a member of a female anti-poaching unit called Akashinga, training in stealth and concealment in Phundundu Wildlife Park, Zimbabwe
Environment, singles, winner: “Akashinga — the Brave Ones”. Petronella Chigumbura, a member of a female anti-poaching unit called Akashinga, training in stealth and concealment in Phundundu Wildlife Park, Zimbabwe
BRENT STIRTON/GETTY IMAGES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nature, singles, winner: “Harvesting Frogs’ Legs”. Frogs with their legs severed and surrounded by frogspawn struggle to the surface, after being thrown back into the water in Covasna, Eastern Carpathians, Romania
Nature, singles, winner: “Harvesting Frogs’ Legs”. Frogs with their legs severed and surrounded by frogspawn struggle to the surface, after being thrown back into the water in Covasna, Eastern Carpathians, Romania
BENCE MATE/WORLD PRESS PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Portraits, singles, winner: “Dakar Fashion”. Diarra Ndiaye, Ndeye Fatou Mbaye and Mariza Sakho model outfits by designer Adama Paris in the Medina neighborhood of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, watched by curious locals
Portraits, singles, winner: “Dakar Fashion”. Diarra Ndiaye, Ndeye Fatou Mbaye and Mariza Sakho model outfits by designer Adama Paris in the Medina neighborhood of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, watched by curious locals
FINBARR O'REILLY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Spot News, stories, runner-up: Children receiving treatment after a gas attack on al-Shifunieh village, in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, one of a series of pictures in the “Syria, No Exit” story
Spot News, stories, runner-up: Children receiving treatment after a gas attack on al-Shifunieh village, in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, one of a series of pictures in the “Syria, No Exit” story
MOHAMMED BADRA/EPA
General News, stories, winner: “Yemen Crisis”. A woman begs outside a grocery store in Azzan, a pivotal town in south Yemen that has seesawed between being under government and insurgent control
General News, stories, winner: “Yemen Crisis”. A woman begs outside a grocery store in Azzan, a pivotal town in south Yemen that has seesawed between being under government and insurgent control
LORENZO TUGNOLI, CONTRASTO, FOR THE WASHINGTON POST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Contemporary Issues, singles, winner: “Cubanitas”. Pura celebrates her 15th birthday with her community in Havana, Cuba, as she rides around her neighbourhood in a 1950s convertible
Contemporary Issues, singles, winner: “Cubanitas”. Pura celebrates her 15th birthday with her community in Havana, Cuba, as she rides around her neighbourhood in a 1950s convertible
DIANA MARKOSIAN/MAGNUM PHOTOS
Long Term Projects, winner: “Beckon Us From Home”. Students laugh backstage before a school singing and marching competition
Long Term Projects, winner: “Beckon Us From Home”. Students laugh backstage before a school singing and marching competition
SARAH BLESENER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Spot News, stories, runner-up: People try to clear some of the rubble after airstrikes a day earlier, in rebel-held Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, one of a series of pictures in the “'Syria, No Exit” story
Spot News, stories, runner-up: People try to clear some of the rubble after airstrikes a day earlier, in rebel-held Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria, one of a series of pictures in the “'Syria, No Exit” story
MOHAMMED BADRA/EPA