Jeff Pachoud , Sports Feature , 1st prize singles , Worldpressphoto2014

Sledding race from above
18 January 2013
Mushers compete in Megève, France, during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race. Photographer, France
 

Quinn Rooney , Sports Action , 3rd prize stories , Worldpressphoto2014

World Swimming Sports
27 April 2013
Daniel Arnamnart of Australia competes in the men's 100-meter backstroke during day two of the Australian Swimming Championships on 27 April 2013 at SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre in Adelaide, Australia.

World Swimming Championships, April 2013, at the Australian trials, in Adelaide, Australia, and 15th FINA World Championships, July 2013, in Barcelona, Spain.

Photographer, Australia

Ezra Shaw , Sports Action

Ezra Shaw , Sports Action 

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.

Robin Hammond, Contemporary Issues , 2nd prize stories , Worldpressphoto2014

War and mental health after crisis
21 May 2011
A female patient at Galkayo Mental Health Centre in Puntland, Somalia tries to escape the hospital. May, June 2011, Somalia. Photos of mentally disabled people in the context of African countries affected by war, failed states, corruption and displacement. Photographer, New Zealand

Robin Hammond is a freelance photojournalist born in New Zealand. He has been part of the photo agency Panos Pictures since 2007.
The winner of four Amnesty International awards for Human Rights journalism, Robin has dedicated his career to documenting human rights and development issues around the world, but especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2011 Hammond won the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award which allowed him to document in Zimbabwe for four months. Actes Sud published a book of the photos to coincide with an exhibition of the work in Paris in November 2012. In 2013 he won the FotoEvidence book award that will result in the publication of his long term project on mental health in Africa, Condemned. The same body of work was exhibited in September 2012 at the photojournalism festival Visa Pour l’Image.

After living in Japan, the United Kingdom and South Africa, Robin Hammond currently lives in Paris, France.
He contributes to many international newspapers and magazines including National Geographic, Time Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times, and Polka Magazine. He also works regularly with various non-governmental organisations.

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.