A picture of a spot news, general news or issue reporting event taken outside the United States.
First Place
Carol Guzy, Independent Photojournalist
WAR CRIMES: Volunteer gravediggers use a door and crane to lift corpses from the earth where they were stacked together in a mass grave behind the Church of St. Andrew and All Saints in Bucha, Ukraine on Friday April 11, 2022. One rises with the surreal resemblance to a crucifix. Some had signs of torture and hands tied or shot in the head.
Second Place
Carol Guzy, Independent Photojournalist
BUCHA, CITY OF DEATH: Body bags of people recovered from a mass grave and throughout the town are lined up at a cemetery for transport to the morgue as investigators begin the grim task of assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine on Saturday April 9, 2022.
Third Place
Salwan Georges, The Washington Post
Ivan: Family of Ukrainian soldier Ivan Lipskiy grieving at his casket during a military service of 5 Ukrainian soldiers in Odesa, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Lipskiy was killed on March 18th during a Russian airstrike that hit the 36th Ukrainian Naval Infantry Brigade killing more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Mykolaiv.
Award of Excellence
Carol Guzy, Independent Photojournalist
CAPTURED: A captured Separatist soldier fighting for Russia has a blindfold put on by Ukrainian soldiers at a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Thursday May 5, 2022. He was brought there with another badly injured Russian soldier. Distraught hospital staff and workers from EcoPark Zoo confronted him with their rage and grief about their county’s toll from Russian aggression after learning 15-year-old zoo volunteer Dennis Selevina, had just died after being mortally wounded in shelling as rescuers were evacuating animals. The fact that he was Ukrainian Separatist added a layer of betrayal to their sorrow.
Award of Excellence
Carol Guzy, Independent Photojournalist
UKRAINE’S MOTHERS MOURN: Maria embraces the body of her son, Didykh Taras as a funeral is held for three soldiers killed in the Russian invasion at Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on Friday March 11, 2022. Many sorrowful funerals are held here for fallen Ukrainian troops killed in the war and the wails of weeping loved ones echo on the walls.
Award of Excellence
Salwan Georges, The Washington Post
Cartel Rx: Jose Gonzalez, who was deported after growing up in California, shoots fentanyl with a friend in the Zona Norte neighborhood of Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, October 21, 2022. José grew up in San Bernadino and remained in Tijuana after being deported to be close to his daughter in California. He woke up next to a pile of trash two blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border, on a patch of sidewalk that has been claimed by this city’s fentanyl addicts, almost all of them deportees from the United States. Because he’d run out of visible veins, he asked a friend to inject the needle into his neck. He bent down to receive it and put his hands on his knees while the high rushed in. In another five hours, he would be strung out, hurting for another hit. He needed to make 100 pesos (about $5) to buy enough drugs to fill another syringe. He started loading his backpack full of scavenged items to sell in downtown Tijuana: iPhone cases, a calculator, a dictionary, and a used pair of shorts. “Why would my daughter want to visit her drug-addict father?” he asked. She had visited him once and never came back. “What the hell am I doing here?”