2018 World Press Photo nominations

WARNING: Graphic images. The World Press Photo competition showcases the most newsworthy images in photojournalism each year - here are this year’s nominees.

People are thrown into the air as a car plows into a group of protesters demonstrating against the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017. The attack killed Heather Heyer and injured 19 others. James Alex Fields Jr., the alleged driver, was charged with second-degree murder. Picture: Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress/World Press Photo

1/33People are thrown into the air as a car plows into a group of protesters demonstrating against the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017. The attack killed Heather Heyer and injured 19 others. James Alex Fields Jr., the alleged driver, was charged with second-degree murder. Picture: Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress/World Press Photo

‘Clearance operations’ against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar conducted by the Burmese army led to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing into Bangladesh on foot or by boat. Many died in the attempt. In Bangladesh, refugees were housed in makeshift settlements. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/World Press Photo

2/33‘Clearance operations’ against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar conducted by the Burmese army led to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing into Bangladesh on foot or by boat. Many died in the attempt. In Bangladesh, refugees were housed in makeshift settlements. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/World Press Photo

A man lays on top of a woman as others flee the Route 91 Harvest country music festival grounds after a shooting occurred on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Picture: David Becker/Getty Images/World Press Photo

3/33A man lays on top of a woman as others flee the Route 91 Harvest country music festival grounds after a shooting occurred on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Picture: David Becker/Getty Images/World Press Photo

Djeneta (right) has been bedridden and unresponsive for two and a half years, and her sister Ibadeta for more than six months, with uppgivenhetssyndrom (resignation syndrome), in Horndal, Sweden. It is a condition believed to exist only amongst refugees in Sweden. Picture: Magnus Wennman/Aftonbladet/World Press Photo

4/33Djeneta (right) has been bedridden and unresponsive for two and a half years, and her sister Ibadeta for more than six months, with uppgivenhetssyndrom (resignation syndrome), in Horndal, Sweden. It is a condition believed to exist only amongst refugees in Sweden. Picture: Magnus Wennman/Aftonbladet/World Press Photo

A huge crowd at the Kim Il Sung stadium awaits the start of the Pyongyang marathon. An official guards the exit. Pyongyang, North Korea. Picture: Roger Turesson Dagens Nyheter/World Press Photo

5/33A huge crowd at the Kim Il Sung stadium awaits the start of the Pyongyang marathon. An official guards the exit. Pyongyang, North Korea. Picture: Roger Turesson Dagens Nyheter/World Press Photo

Suzanne, 11 years old. two months before that image was taken, she experienced breast ironing until her breasts were totally gone. Nov 2016, East Cameroon. Picture: Heba Khamis/World Press Photo

6/33Suzanne, 11 years old. two months before that image was taken, she experienced breast ironing until her breasts were totally gone. Nov 2016, East Cameroon. Picture: Heba Khamis/World Press Photo

Flying over the Westland in the Netherlands, the most advanced area in the world for agro farming technology. Furrows of artificial light lend an otherworldly aura to the greenhouse. Climate-controlled farms such as these grow crops around the clock and in every kind of weather. Picture: Luca Locatelli for National Geographic/World Press Photo

7/33Flying over the Westland in the Netherlands, the most advanced area in the world for agro farming technology. Furrows of artificial light lend an otherworldly aura to the greenhouse. Climate-controlled farms such as these grow crops around the clock and in every kind of weather. Picture: Luca Locatelli for National Geographic/World Press Photo

Members of opposing teams, the Up’ards and Down’ards, grapple for the ball during the historic, annual Royal Shrovetide Football Match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK. Picture: Oli SCARFF/AFP/World Press Photo

8/33Members of opposing teams, the Up’ards and Down’ards, grapple for the ball during the historic, annual Royal Shrovetide Football Match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK. Picture: Oli SCARFF/AFP/World Press Photo

Thousands of people converge on Xuyi County every summer for the annual crayfish eating festival. With rapidly expanding incomes, Chinese consumers are demanding increasing amounts of protein and dairy products in their diet. Picture: George Steinmetz for National Georgraphic/World Press Photo

9/33Thousands of people converge on Xuyi County every summer for the annual crayfish eating festival. With rapidly expanding incomes, Chinese consumers are demanding increasing amounts of protein and dairy products in their diet. Picture: George Steinmetz for National Georgraphic/World Press Photo

Indonesia, Sumbawa Island, Moyo - A jockey prepares for the gate to open as his trainer leans over him to make some final adjustments. Once a game between neighbors to celebrate a good harvest, horse racing was transformed into a spectator sport by the Dutch in the 20th century to entertain officials and nobility. Picture: Alain Schroeder/World Press Photo

10/33Indonesia, Sumbawa Island, Moyo - A jockey prepares for the gate to open as his trainer leans over him to make some final adjustments. Once a game between neighbors to celebrate a good harvest, horse racing was transformed into a spectator sport by the Dutch in the 20th century to entertain officials and nobility. Picture: Alain Schroeder/World Press Photo

A juvenile gray-headed albatross on Marion Island, South African Antarctic Territory, is left injured after an attack by mice from an invasive species that has begun to feed on living albatross chicks and juveniles. Picture: Thomas P. Peschak for National Geographic/World Press Photo

11/33A juvenile gray-headed albatross on Marion Island, South African Antarctic Territory, is left injured after an attack by mice from an invasive species that has begun to feed on living albatross chicks and juveniles. Picture: Thomas P. Peschak for National Geographic/World Press Photo

COFCO’s largest chicken facility processes 120 million chickens per year (today 200,000, pre-holiday periods up to 400,000) with over 2,000 employees working a single eight hour shift. 90% of their chicken is for domestic consumption, and 10% for other parts of Asia. Picture:George Steinmetz for National Geographic/World Press Photo

12/33COFCO’s largest chicken facility processes 120 million chickens per year (today 200,000, pre-holiday periods up to 400,000) with over 2,000 employees working a single eight hour shift. 90% of their chicken is for domestic consumption, and 10% for other parts of Asia. Picture:George Steinmetz for National Geographic/World Press Photo

Kaoru Amagai may live in a traditional Japanese home, but his lifestyle is far from traditional. He shares his home with three macaques. Kin is the oldest of the monkeys and Mr. Amagai cares for them as he would any child, helping them dress, bathe, or finish their daily yoghurt snack. Picture: Jasper Doest/World Press Photo

13/33Kaoru Amagai may live in a traditional Japanese home, but his lifestyle is far from traditional. He shares his home with three macaques. Kin is the oldest of the monkeys and Mr. Amagai cares for them as he would any child, helping them dress, bathe, or finish their daily yoghurt snack. Picture: Jasper Doest/World Press Photo

18 April 2017 Rockhopper penguins live up to their name as they navigate the rugged coastline of Marion Island, a South African Antarctic Territory in the Indian Ocean. Picture: Thomas P. Peschak/World Press Photo

14/3318 April 2017 Rockhopper penguins live up to their name as they navigate the rugged coastline of Marion Island, a South African Antarctic Territory in the Indian Ocean. Picture: Thomas P. Peschak/World Press Photo

Ethiopia. Mago National Park. 2017. Two girls from the Mursi ethnic group are getting ready to return to their village, after going to get some water in a well. Both wear bras that have been given to them by western tourists. Picture: Fausto Podavini/World Press Photo

15/33Ethiopia. Mago National Park. 2017. Two girls from the Mursi ethnic group are getting ready to return to their village, after going to get some water in a well. Both wear bras that have been given to them by western tourists. Picture: Fausto Podavini/World Press Photo

February 18th, 2017. A remnant of the vast, virgin Amazon rainforest stands in the middle of an agricultural field near the Tapajos River, Brazil, February, 2017, about twelve miles south of Santarem. In the background, slash piles litter the land parcel cleared more recently. This landscape, once choked with trees, is now mostly barren of them. Picture: Daniel Beltra/World Press Photo

16/33February 18th, 2017. A remnant of the vast, virgin Amazon rainforest stands in the middle of an agricultural field near the Tapajos River, Brazil, February, 2017, about twelve miles south of Santarem. In the background, slash piles litter the land parcel cleared more recently. This landscape, once choked with trees, is now mostly barren of them. Picture: Daniel Beltra/World Press Photo

The 31 year old Karina Marlene was gunned down with 6 shots from a taxi in zone 10 of Guatemala city. Picture: Javier Arcenillas Luz/World Press Photo

17/33The 31 year old Karina Marlene was gunned down with 6 shots from a taxi in zone 10 of Guatemala city. Picture: Javier Arcenillas Luz/World Press Photo

19 September - 2 November 2017 ‘Clearance operations’ against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar conducted by the Burmese army led to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing into Bangladesh on foot or by boat. Many died in the attempt. In Bangladesh, refugees were housed in makeshift settlements. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/World Press Photo

18/3319 September - 2 November 2017 ‘Clearance operations’ against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar conducted by the Burmese army led to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing into Bangladesh on foot or by boat. Many died in the attempt. In Bangladesh, refugees were housed in makeshift settlements. Picture: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/World Press Photo

Dr Suporn Watanyusakul shows patient Olivia Thomas her new vagina after gender reassignment surgery at a hospital in Chonburi, near Bangkok, Thailand. Picture: Giulio Di Sturco/World Press Photo

19/33Dr Suporn Watanyusakul shows patient Olivia Thomas her new vagina after gender reassignment surgery at a hospital in Chonburi, near Bangkok, Thailand. Picture: Giulio Di Sturco/World Press Photo

Despite the drop in popularity of bullfighting, young boys in Almeria, Spain, continue to learn skills at a local bullfighting school three times a week, and when they are not in the arena continue their efforts on the streets of the city. Picture: Nikolai Linares Larsen/World Press Photo

20/33Despite the drop in popularity of bullfighting, young boys in Almeria, Spain, continue to learn skills at a local bullfighting school three times a week, and when they are not in the arena continue their efforts on the streets of the city. Picture: Nikolai Linares Larsen/World Press Photo

Orphaned and abandoned elephant calves are rehabilitated and returned to the wild, at the community-owned Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya. Picture: Ami Vitale for National Geographic/World Press Photo

21/33Orphaned and abandoned elephant calves are rehabilitated and returned to the wild, at the community-owned Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya. Picture: Ami Vitale for National Geographic/World Press Photo

A large group of young Rohingya watch houses burn just beyond the border at leda makeshift shelter in cox’s bazar, Bangladesh on september 09, 2017. More than 800,000 Rohingya have taken shelter in Bangladesh, many of whom had their houses burned and family members killed in myanmar amid a military crackdown on the muslim minority. Picture: Masfiqur Akhtar Sohan/Nur Photo/World Press Photo

22/33A large group of young Rohingya watch houses burn just beyond the border at leda makeshift shelter in cox’s bazar, Bangladesh on september 09, 2017. More than 800,000 Rohingya have taken shelter in Bangladesh, many of whom had their houses burned and family members killed in myanmar amid a military crackdown on the muslim minority. Picture: Masfiqur Akhtar Sohan/Nur Photo/World Press Photo

Lorri Cottrill, 45, smokes a e-cigarette in her home in Charleston, West Virginia. She is the leader of the biggest neo-nazi and right wing organization in the US, National Socialist Movement (NSM, in West Virginia. - Generally speaking white people are more intelligent than black people, says Lorri, who is full of extreme opinions. Picture: Espen Rasmussen/World Press Photo

23/33Lorri Cottrill, 45, smokes a e-cigarette in her home in Charleston, West Virginia. She is the leader of the biggest neo-nazi and right wing organization in the US, National Socialist Movement (NSM, in West Virginia. - Generally speaking white people are more intelligent than black people, says Lorri, who is full of extreme opinions. Picture: Espen Rasmussen/World Press Photo

Kijini Primary School students learn to float, swim and perform rescues on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 in the Indian Ocean off of Mnyuni, Zanzibar. Daily life in the Zanzibar Archipelago centers around the sea, yet the majority of girls who inhabit the islands never acquire even the most fundamental swimming skills. Picture: ANNA BOYIAZIS/World Press Photo

24/33Kijini Primary School students learn to float, swim and perform rescues on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 in the Indian Ocean off of Mnyuni, Zanzibar. Daily life in the Zanzibar Archipelago centers around the sea, yet the majority of girls who inhabit the islands never acquire even the most fundamental swimming skills. Picture: ANNA BOYIAZIS/World Press Photo

South Ethiopia. Kangata. 2017 .Men of the Nyangatom ethnic group work by the shore of the Omo River. Behind them, there’s the construction of a bridge that will merge the territory of the Karo with the territory of the Nyangatom. Picture: Fausto Podavini/World Press Photo

25/33South Ethiopia. Kangata. 2017 .Men of the Nyangatom ethnic group work by the shore of the Omo River. Behind them, there’s the construction of a bridge that will merge the territory of the Karo with the territory of the Nyangatom. Picture: Fausto Podavini/World Press Photo

Afghan refugees wash theirself outside of a warehouse in Belgrade. Up to 1500 migrants are trying to survive the freezing Serbian winter in a crumbling building with broken windows, no electricity, no heating, or water. They are surviving without sanitation and in a sub-zero winter. Picture: Francesco Pistilli/World Press Photo

26/33Afghan refugees wash theirself outside of a warehouse in Belgrade. Up to 1500 migrants are trying to survive the freezing Serbian winter in a crumbling building with broken windows, no electricity, no heating, or water. They are surviving without sanitation and in a sub-zero winter. Picture: Francesco Pistilli/World Press Photo

A young white rhino waits in an enclosure, blindfolded and partially drugged after a long journey from South Africa, before being released into the wild in Botswana as part of efforts to rebuild Botswana’s lost rhino populations. Picture: Neil Aldridge/World Press Photo

27/33A young white rhino waits in an enclosure, blindfolded and partially drugged after a long journey from South Africa, before being released into the wild in Botswana as part of efforts to rebuild Botswana’s lost rhino populations. Picture: Neil Aldridge/World Press Photo

People watch as bodies of children and other Rohingya refugees are transported after their boat with passengers fleeing from Myanmar capsized off the Inani beach near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh September 28, 2017. Picture: Patrick Brown/Panos Pictures/World Press Photo

28/33People watch as bodies of children and other Rohingya refugees are transported after their boat with passengers fleeing from Myanmar capsized off the Inani beach near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh September 28, 2017. Picture: Patrick Brown/Panos Pictures/World Press Photo

Civilians who had remained in west Mosul during the battle to retake the city, lined up for an aid distribution in the Mamun neighbourhood. After months of being trapped in the last remaining ISIS held areas of the city the people in west Mosul were severely short on food and water. Picture: Ivor Prickett for the New York Times/World Press PHoto

29/33Civilians who had remained in west Mosul during the battle to retake the city, lined up for an aid distribution in the Mamun neighbourhood. After months of being trapped in the last remaining ISIS held areas of the city the people in west Mosul were severely short on food and water. Picture: Ivor Prickett for the New York Times/World Press PHoto

Aisha, age 14, stands for a portrait in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria on Sept. 21, 2017. Aisha was kidnapped by Boko Haram then assigned a suicide bombing mission. After she was strapped with explosives, she found help instead of blowing herself and others up. Picture: Adam Ferguson for The New York Times/World Press Photo

30/33Aisha, age 14, stands for a portrait in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria on Sept. 21, 2017. Aisha was kidnapped by Boko Haram then assigned a suicide bombing mission. After she was strapped with explosives, she found help instead of blowing herself and others up. Picture: Adam Ferguson for The New York Times/World Press Photo

José Víctor Salazar Balza (28) catches fire amid violent clashes with riot police during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. Picture: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/World Press Photo

31/33José Víctor Salazar Balza (28) catches fire amid violent clashes with riot police during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. Picture: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/World Press Photo

An unidentified young boy who was carried out of the last ISIS controlled area in the Old City by a man suspected of being a militant is cared for by Iraqi Special Forces soldiers. The soldiers suspected the man had used the boy as a human shield in order to try and escape as he did not know the child’s name and claimed he had just found him alone in the street. Picture: Ivor Prickett for the New York Times/World Press Photo

32/33An unidentified young boy who was carried out of the last ISIS controlled area in the Old City by a man suspected of being a militant is cared for by Iraqi Special Forces soldiers. The soldiers suspected the man had used the boy as a human shield in order to try and escape as he did not know the child’s name and claimed he had just found him alone in the street. Picture: Ivor Prickett for the New York Times/World Press Photo

A passerby comforts an injured woman lying on the pavement after Khalid Masood drove his car into pedestrians killing four in addition to a police officer at Westminster Bridge in London, Britain, March 22, 2017. Picture: Toby Melville/Reuters/World Press Photo

33/33A passerby comforts an injured woman lying on the pavement after Khalid Masood drove his car into pedestrians killing four in addition to a police officer at Westminster Bridge in London, Britain, March 22, 2017. Picture: Toby Melville/Reuters/World Press Photo

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