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Photographer Sasha Maslov was shortlisted for this portrait, taken at a damaged apartment building in the city of Irpin, Ukraine.German photographer Julia Christe was shortlisted in the wildlife and nature category for her animal portraits.Italian photographer Nicola Zolin captured tributes to late soccer star Pelé in the Brazilian city of Santos.Photographer Cesar Dezfuli documented lava flows from a volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands.Peace activist Liberata Buratwa, pictured in her garden in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, poses for photojournalist Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.Photographer Tariq Zaidi was recognized for his series on the bustling Hamar Weyne fish market in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.A girls soccer team poses for photographer Ebrahim Noroozi, in Kabul, Afghanistan.A shortlisted image by American underwater photographer and diver Martin Broen.Photographer Corey Arnold documented the relationship between a North Carolina couple and the bears that show up on their back porch.An aerial shot by George Steinmetz shows sun-dried red chilis being sorted on a family farm near Guntur, in India’s Andhra Pradesh state.A view of the Middelgrunden offshore wind farm, taken from a beach in Copenhagen, Denmark, by photographer Simone Tramonte.This striking image, by Canadian photographer Zhu Zhu, was shortlisted in the wildlife and nature category.French photographer Thomas Morel-Fort was included for his series documenting the fortunes of a young Senegalese jockey, Fallou Diop.
