Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 winners announced

Bangladeshi photojournalist Mohammed Shajahan's photo, titled "Mom Love," has won the Photo of the Year Award in the seventh edition of the Istanbul Photo Awards, an annual international photography contest held by the state-run Anadolu Agency to support photojournalists.

The COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world has shown one more time how photojournalists and press members continue doing their jobs with devotion under challenging conditions.

In this challenging period, Anadolu Agency's Istanbul Photo Awards contest keeps supporting the sector in the best way possible.

The winners of the Istanbul Photo Awards, revealing its quality by being a global platform where 12,000 photographers have registered in its seventh year, have been chosen by the international jury consisting of the prestigious names in the world of photography.

Shajahan's photograph titled "Mom Love" was chosen from among nearly 15,000 photographs submitted from different parts of the world as the winner of the Photo of the Year 2021 Award.

In the Single News category, AFP photojournalist Yuri Cortez received the second prize for his work in which he pictured prisoners in the Quezaltepeque jail in El Salvador.

AP photojournalist Petros Giannakouris took third place with his photograph reflecting the difficulties faced by the refugees who fled from the camp they had been kept in Greece.

The photographs by Cortez and Giannakouris have shown that different agendas take place in the world as well.

Information related to the 2021 jury and award-winning photographs of the previous years can be accessed via the website istanbulphotoawards.com.

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