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Image 1 of 8 The World Press Photo Foundation has announced the winners of its annual photo and photo story contest. The Amsterdam-based organisation, which has been celebrating

international professional photographers sine 1955, has released a book showing the most striking images of 2019. The photo contest winners were chosen by an independent jury that looked at

nearly 74,000 photographs entered by more than 4,000 photographs from 125 countries. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from

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directly to your inbox. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Yasuyoshi Chiba, from Japan, won the World

Press Photo of the Year 2020 with his photograph _Straight Voice,_ showing a young man reciting protest poetry while demonstrators chant slogans during a blackout in Khartoum, Sudan. “The

place was a total blackout. Then, unexpectedly, people started clapping hands in the dark. People held up mobile phones to illuminate a young man in the centre. He recited a famous protest

poem, an improvised one,” said Yasuyoshi. “Between his breath, everybody shouted ‘thawra’, the word revolution in Arabic. His facial expression and voice impressed me, I couldn’t stop

focusing on him and captured the moment.” –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––_For a round-up of the most important stories from around the world - and a concise, refreshing and balanced take on

the week’s news agenda - try The Week magazine._ _Start your trial subscription today_ ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– For the World Press Photo Story of the Year, the judges selected _Kho,

the Genesis of Revolt_ by Romain Laurendeau, a long-term visual account of youth struggle in Algeria. Other entries included Nikita Teryoshin’s photograph _Nothing Personal, _showing an

18-year-old Syrian fighter, severely burnt by conflict with Turkish forces, seeing his girlfriend for the first time since being injured. Mulugeta Ayene’s photograph shows grieving relatives

at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Boeing aircraft crashed near the town of Bishoftu, six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people

aboard. The cause of the accident is under investigation. _World Press Photo 2020, published by Lannoo Publishers, is out on 30 April_