2019 World Press Photo contest winners

Yanela Sanchez, a two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker, cries as she and her mother, Sandra, are detained at the US-Mexico border. The Trump Administration ran a "zero tolerance" policy under which many parents were separated from their children and often sent to different detention facilities. The photo was taken by John Moore, a photographer for Getty Images. It also won the spot news category.

Pieter Ten Hoopen, a Dutch photographer for Agency VU in Paris, in October photographed the caravan of migrants heading towards the US border. The caravan began in Honduras and drew people from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala as word spread. Ten Hoopen has won twice previously, in 2008 and 2010.

A 15-year-old named Pura rides around her neighborhood of Havana, Cuba in a pink 1950s convertible to celebrate her quinceanera — a Latino coming-of-age tradition marking the transition into womanhood. Her quinceanera is special because, having been diagnosed with a brain tumor, she was told she would not live beyond 13. The photo was taken by Magnum photographer Diana Markosian.

Petronella Chigumbura moves through the brush with a sniper rifle in her hand. She is undergoing sniper movement and concealment training as part of an all-female conservation ranger force known as Akashinga ("Brave Ones" in local dialect). The photo was taken by Brent Stirton, a special correspondent for Getty Images and regular contributor to <i>National Geographic</i> magazine.

Australian photographer Chris McGrath was in front of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul as international backlash to the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He captured this unidentified man trying to hold off the press as Saudi investigators arrived at the consulate.

Russian students laugh backstage before a singing and marching competition in Dmitrov on December 14, 2016. Documentary photographer Sarah Blesener visited camps in the United States and Russia aimed at increasing patriotism in young people. Her series aimed to highlight the ideas instilled in future generations.

Another win for Brent Stirton, who photographed this Saker falcon mother and her chicks in central Mongolia. The Saker falcon has an endangered listing because population of the species is undergoing a rapid decline, particularly in Central Asia. Wild falcons are at risk of being captured as part of the centuries old tradition of falconry.

Boys train at the Rhino Boxing Club in Katanga, a large slum settlement in the Ugandan city of Kampala. More than 20,000 people live in Kampala in extreme poverty, and this boxing club receives no outside funding. The photo was taken by Norwegian photographer John Pedersen.