[custom_adv] The vote for Press Photo of the Year is taken during the World Press Photo Awards, hosted by the Dutch foundation World Press Photo. The creator of the winning entry receives €10,000 along with "the most prestigious and coveted award in photojournalism. [custom_adv] Besides Press Photo of the Year, the 20-member jury awards three more prizes in eight categories (general news, spot news, sports, contemporary issues, daily life, portraits, nature and long-term projects), whereby both individual images and photo series are recognised for excellence. [custom_adv] The main prize is given to the image that "... is not only the photojournalistic encapsulation of the year, but represents an issue, situation or event of great journalistic importance, and does so in a way that demonstrates an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity." [custom_adv] World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 1955, the organization is known for holding an annual press photography contest. Since 2011, World Press Photo has organized a separate annual contest for journalistic multimedia productions, and, in association with Human Rights Watch, the annual Tim Hetherington Grant. . [custom_adv] For its 63rd annual international photography competition, the World Press Photo Of The Year has selected the images by professional photojournalists that will compete for the overall prize and for best pictures — presented as single photos or stories — in eight categories on the issues that mattered most in 2019. [custom_adv] The World Press Photo of the Year honors the photographer whose visual creativity and skills made a picture that captures or represents an event of great journalistic importance. The prize is considered the most prestigious international award for photojournalism. [custom_adv] The photos are judged for their accurate, fair, and visually compelling insights about our world by an independent jury comprised of 17 photography professionals. The jury nominated three single images and three stories in each of the eight categories of the 2020 Photo Contest: Contemporary Issues, General News, Environment, Nature, Long-Term Projects, Portraits, Spot News and Sports. [custom_adv] Protest and the role of youth in triggering change, environmental stories and population migrations taking place around the planet are prominent image subjects this year. [custom_adv] Both the World Press Photo of the Year and the World Press Photo Story of the Year awards carry a cash prize of €10,000. Nominees are invited to Amsterdam by the World Press Photo Foundation to attend the awards presentation and the World Press Photo Festival on April 17 and 18, featuring presentations, meetings and workshops. [custom_adv] The prizewinning photographs are assembled into a year-long exhibition that travels to 120 cities and 50 countries and is seen by more than five million people. The exhibition will premiere at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on April 18. [custom_adv] More than half of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia lack regular status and so have no access to health, education or legal employment. Early in 2020, the Colombian government announced two new Special Stay Permits that would allow more than 100,000 Venezuelans to remain and work in the country and ruled that children born in the country to Venezuelan parents could acquire Colombian nationality. [custom_adv] By the time cubs bought as pets are four months old, they become too large and dangerous to keep domestically and are sold, triggering concerns that this feeds the highly lucrative illegal international trade in tiger parts. Investigations by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) dropped by a whopping 92% between 2016 and 2018. [custom_adv] Despite another severe crackdown on June 30, the pro-democracy movement was eventually successful in signing a power-sharing agreement with the military, on August 17. [custom_adv] Officials banned face masks and at a demonstration on October 1 marking the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the People’s Republic of China, police fired live ammunition at protesters for the first time.
