2013 World Press Photo Awards: First-Prize Winners

Location: Gaza City, Palestinian Territories

Caption: "Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother, Muhammad, were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike. Their father, Fouad, was also killed, and their mother was put in intensive care. Fouad’s brothers carry his children to the mosque for the burial ceremony as his body is carried behind on a stretcher."

Location: Idib, Syria

Caption: "Aida cries while recovering from severe injuries she received when her house was shelled by the Syrian Army. Her husband and two children were fatally wounded during the shelling."

Contemporary Issues

Title: "At the Dandora Dump"

Photographer: Micah Albert (USA)

Date: April 3, 2012

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Caption: "Pausing in the rain, a woman working as a trash picker at the 30-acre dump, which literally spills into households of 1 million people living in nearby slums, wishes she had more time to look at the books she comes across. She even likes the industrial parts catalogs. 'It gives me something else to do in the day besides picking [trash],' she said."

Daily Life

Title: "Football in Guinea-Bissau"

Photographer: Daniel Rodrigues (Portugal)

Date: March 3, 2012

Location: Dulombi, Guinea Bissau

Caption: "Many young football players around the world touch their first ball on a field of bare dirt. Here, a youth group plays on a 'football field' that was the site of military barracks and fields of the former Portuguese colony in the country."

Sports Action

Title: "Joy at the End of the Run"

Photographer: Wei Seng Chen (Malayasia)

Date: Feb. 12, 2012

Location: Batu Sangkar, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Caption: "A jockey, his feet stepped into a harness strapped to the bulls and clutching their tails, shows relief and joy at the end of a dangerous run across rice fields. The Pacu Jawi (bull race) is a popular competition at the end of harvest season keenly contested between villages."

Observed Portrait

Title: "Little Survivor"

Photographer: Nemanja Pancic (Serbia)

Date: Feb. 27, 2012

Location: Belgrade, Serbia

Caption: "Milan Ponjiger survived a fall from the sixth floor, but his mother and father did not. 'We jumped from our balcony, because we had big financial problems,' he said. The economic crisis in Serbia has been going on since early 1990 as a result of the war in the former Yugoslavia."

Staged Portrait

Title: "Daniel Kaluuya"

Photographer: Nadav Kander

Date: Jan. 4, 2012

Location: London, UK

Caption: "Actor Daniel Kaluuya."

Nature

Title: "Southern Cassowary"

Photographer: Christian Ziegler (Germany)

Date:Nov. 16, 2012

Location: Black Mountain Road, Australia

Caption: "The endangered Southern Cassowary feeds on the fruit of the Blue Quandang tree. Cassowaries are a keystone species in northern Australian rainforests because of their ability to carry so many big seeds such long distances."