“Shireen Abu Akleh’s Funeral,” by independent photographer Maya Levin, depicts Israeli police beating mourners accompanying the coffin of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh of Al Jazeera on May 13 in East Jerusalem. She was shot while covering an Israeli military raid in Jenin, West Bank. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“The Price of Peace in Afghanistan,” was taken by photographer Mads Nissen on Jan. 19, 2022. A 15-year-old Afghanistan boy shows the scar left behind from having his kidney removed and sold for $3,500. The lack of jobs and the threat of starvation has led to a dramatic increase in the illegal organ trade in Herat, Afghanistan. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“The Price of Peace in Afghanistan,” by Mads Nissen. A family cooks over a fire made with plastic in a camp on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, on Jan. 19, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“The Price of Peace in Afghanistan,” by Mads Nissen. A 19-year-old Afghanistan boy who has been with the Taliban for three years, stands guard over Friday prayer at Sher Shah Suri Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 14, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“War Wounds,” by Emilio Morenatti, photojournalist for the Associated Press, one of six honorable mentions, portrays people who have undergone amputations as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“War Wounds,” by Emilio Morenatti. On May 12, a boy pushes over a wheelchair for his twin sister, Yana Stepanenko, who lost two legs in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, which was hit by a Russian missile. Photo: Courtesy of World Press
“War Wounds,” by Emilio Morenatti. Sasha Horokhivskyi, 38, uses mirror therapy to mitigate phantom pains at a public hospital in Kyiv, on April 28. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“The Siege of Mariupol,” by war photographer Evgeniy Maloletka. An injured pregnant woman is carried from a maternity hospital that was damaged during a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“The Siege of Mariupol,” by Evgeniy Maloletka. A man cries over his son’s lifeless body lying on a stretcher at a hospital hallway converted into a medical ward in Mariupol on March 2, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“Yana and Victor,” by photojournalist Alkis Konstantinidis. On April 18, Yana Bachek cries over her father Victor Gubarev’s body who was killed while buying bread during the shelling of Kharkiv. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo
“Retrieving the Dead,” by Mauk Kham Wah, a photographer, filmmaker and activist from Myanmar. Resistance fighters from the People’s
Defense Forces retreat with the body of a comrade, following a clash with
the Myanmar military, in Moe Bye, Kayah State, Myanmar, on Feb. 21, 2022. Photo: Courtesy of World Press Photo