This is a selection of photos that were taken for the World Press Photo Contest 2018. This is the most important photojournalist prize in the world and has unveiled the six finalists of its photo of the year contest.
From José Víctor Salazar Balza who catches fire amid clashes with riot police during a protest against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to a bald eagle that feasts on meat scraps in the garbage bins of a supermarket in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, all these photos will give you the information you need about this contest.
Check them out for more information and start to see our world through photos!
Photo of the year nominee
José Víctor Salazar Balza catches fire amid clashes with riot police during a protest against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Caracas
Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP
Photo of the year nominee
A passerby comforts an injured woman after a car was driven into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Photo of the year nominee
Civilians line up for aid in Mosul during the battle to retake the city from Islamic State
Photograph: Ivor Prickett/The New York Times
Photo of the year nominee
A boy is carried out of the last Islamic State-controlled area of Mosul
Photograph: Ivor Prickett/The New York Times
Photo of the year nominee
Bodies of Rohingya refugees are laid out after the boat in which they were trying to flee Myanmar capsized
Photograph: Patrick Brown/Unicef
Photo of the year nominee
Kidnapped by Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants, Aisha, 14, was forced to become a suicide bomber but managed to escape
Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The New York Times
Sports singles nominee
Runners take part in the Marathon de Sables in the Sahara in Morocco
Photograph: Erik Sampers
Environment singles nominee
A blindfolded white rhino awaits release into the wild in Botswana after being transported from South Africa
Photograph: Neil Aldridge
Environment stories nominee
Scarlet ibises take flight above flooded lowlands near the north coast of Brazil
Photograph: Daniel Beltra
General news singles nominee
John Thompson is embraced after speaking at a memorial rally in Minnesota for his friend Philando Castile, who was killed by police
Photograph: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune
Nature singles nominee
Rockhopper penguins live up to their name as they navigate the rugged coastline of Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean
Photograph: Thomas P. Peschak
Long-term projects nominee
Goat herders in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, a region under severe environmental and socio-economic strain
Photograph: Faustro Podavini
Environment stories nominee
Cows ready to be milked at ‘Food Valley’, a cluster of agricultural technology start-ups and experimental farms in the Netherlands
Photograph: Luca Locatelli/National Geographic
Nature stories nominee
Orphaned elephant calves play at the community-owned Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya
Photograph: Ami Vitale/National Geographic
Nature singles nominee
A bald eagle feasts on meat scraps in the garbage bins of a supermarket in Dutch Harbor, Alaska
Photograph: Corey Arnold