14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

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The famous photo contest Istanbul Photo Awards has selected the best works of the current year! 15,000 photos claimed the first place, but only one about mother's love was chosen… 

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Istanbul Photo Awards is an international competition for photojournalists organized by Anadolu Agency. The prize is awarded to brave and talented applicants from all over the world. 

The contest was held in six categories: news story, sports story, story from everyday life, and others. The jury considered photos of the events that determined the world agenda in 2020. The winner of the Photo of the Year category received $ 6,000, while the other finalists received between $ 1,000 and $ 3,000.

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

A photo of Mohammed Shajahan titled "Mama's Love", selected from almost 15 thousand photos sent from different parts of the world, won the "Photo of the Year 2021" award.

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Members of the MS-13 and 18 gangs in an overcrowded cell at the Quezaltepeque prison in El Salvador.

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Refugees and migrants escape from a fire at the Moria camp in the northeast of the Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Czech Republic players thank fans after the match with FC Pribram

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Garrett Gerloff (31) and Sandro Cortese (11) collide during the World Superbike warm-up during the World Championships on Phillip Island, Australia

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Georg Filser-Mayerhofer of Germany climbs onto a pile of logs during a bouldering training session in Kochel am See, Germany

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Italian Red Cross workers enter the home of a patient who may have contracted the coronavirus, in Nembro

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

A woman grieves for her mother, who was killed in an attack on the village of Karayusuflu in the Barda region of Azerbaijan

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Artist and musician Raymond Essayan plays the piano in a destroyed building after the port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Playing the national sport of Kok Boru in the village of Sovetskoye, 40 km from Karakol in Kyrgyzstan

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Canoeist Jiri Prskavec trains in front of his home in the Czech Republic during a coronavirus-related emergency.

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Children train during a karate lesson in Aleppo, Syria.

14 best works from the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 photo contest

Marion, who has metastatic cancer, hugs her son Ethan. Next to them is Peyo, a therapy horse at the Selene Palliative care unit at the Hospitaller de Calais in Calais, France.

Armin Karami won for a series of portraits made in Iran, "Foreign Mirror".

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