Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 - Winners Announced

The winners of this year's Istanbul Photo Awards, hosted by Anadolu, have been announced.

14 PHOTOS

1. Photo of 2021 and 1st prize in the News category.

A photo of Mohammed Shajahan entitled “Mom's Love”, selected from nearly 15,000 photographs submitted from different parts of the world, won the “Photo of the Year 2021” award.

2. Second place in the Single News category.

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

3. Third Prize Single News.

Refugees and migrants carry their belongings to escape a fire at the Moria camp in the northeastern Aegean island of Lesvos, Greece.

4. First Prize in the Sports category.

Czech footballers thank fans after the match with FC Pribram

5. Second Prize in the Sports category.

Garrett Gerloff (31) and Sandro Cortese (11) face off during the World Superbike warm-up during the World Championships in Phillip Island, Australia.

6. Third Prize in the Sports category.

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

7. News Story First Prize.

Italian Red Cross workers enter the home of a suspected Covid-19 patient in Nembro.

8. News Story Second Prize.

A woman mourns the death of her mother, who died as a result of the attack on the village of Karayusuflu in the Barda region of Azerbaijan.

9. News Story Third Prize.

Artist and musician Raymond Essayan play the piano in a destroyed building after a port bombing in Beirut, Lebanon.

10. First Prize Sports Story.

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

11. Second Prize for Sports History.

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

12. Third Prize Sports Story.

Children train during a karate lesson in Aleppo, Syria.

13. First Prize for the Daily Life Story.

Marion, who has metastatic cancer, hugs her son Ethan in the presence of Peyo, a horse used in animal therapy, at the Selene palliative care unit at the Hospitalier de Calais in Calais, France.

14. First prize for a portrait story.

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