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Winners of the best press photos from 2016
Winners of the 2017 World Press Photo Contest
The winning entries of the 60th annual World Press Photo Contest have just been announced. The 2017 Photo of the Year was taken by photographer Burhan Ozbilici as the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated right in front of him. This year, according to organizers, 80,408 photos were submitted for judging, made by 5,034 photographers from 125 different countries.
These photos are stunningly beautiful, jaw-droppingly shocking, and sometimes absolutely heartwrenching. It's amazing how universal some feel already, like these issues have existed forever and the photos were taken so long ago, and I was shocked to realize that they only just happened this last year. But there were also so many photos representing events and issues I wasn't familiar with—the photo from a Philipines jail shocked me—or ones that just so powerfully depicted something that I'd heard about but never seen in quite that exact way or make it so much more personal and direct.
(Also, sorry for the weird formatting; the link wasn't pulling in the image preview for some reason.)




