Jia Guorong , Sports Action , 1st prize stories , Worldpressphoto2014

Competition on bars
05 September 2013
Chinese gymnasts compete for medals on the horizontal, parallel and uneven bars in September 2013 at the National Athletic Meet in Shenyang, China. photojournalist, China

Jia Guorong is an editorial advisory board member and senior photojournalist at China News Service. Before becoming a photographer, he served in the army. He graduated from university in 1983. Jia was appointed director of the photo department in 1995. The following year, he was a correspondent in Hong Kong and Macao in 1996, as well as a judge and a specialist at Forum of Freedom held by Xinhua News Agency, Associated Press and Time magazine in 1996. He was the chief correspondent for the agency’s Los Angeles bureau in 2004. He returned to China in 2008 and covered the Sichuan earthquake. Jia won third prize in the category sports singles of the 45th World Press Photo in 2002.

Sara Naomi Lewkowicz , Contemporary Issues , 1st prize stories ,Worldpressphoto2014,

A Portrait of Domestic Violence
02 September 2012

Maggie had two children, Memphis, 2, and Kayden, 4. Maggie had separated from their father several months prior to beginning her relationship with Shane. From the beginning of the relationship, Shane became very involved with the children, asking Kayden to call him "dad." Millersport, Ohio, US. Photographer, United States

Sara Lewkowicz is an American photojournalist pursuing a master's degree in visual communication from Ohio University in Athens. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently studying abroad in London. Her work has been published in Time, Stern, L’Espresso, Das Magazin, Opzij, Claudia, Days Japan, Internatzionale, Politiken, the Baltimore Sun, and numerous other magazines and newspapers. She has won several grants and awards, including the 2013 Alexia Student Grant and the 2013 Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik Award, and she has been named the 2013 College Photographer of the Year by POYi. During summer 2014, she will intern for National Geographic Magazine.

 

Goran Tomasevic , Spot News , 1st prize stories, Worldpressphoto2014

Rebels Attack Government Checkpoint
30 January 2013  
 Syrian rebel fighters take cover amid flying debris and shrapnel after being hit by a tank shell fired towards them by the Syrian Army in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus. On 30 January 2013, a Syrian rebel group planning an attack on government forces is hit by sniper fire in Damascus, Syria. After evacuating their comrade, who was shot in the chest and would later die from injuries, the rebels return to attack the checkpoint with rocket fire. Subsequently, government forces fired tank shells at the rebels. The rebels eventually retreated for the day to mourn the death of their comrade.

Photographer, Serbia