The World Press Foundation announced the winners of its annual contests: the 60th annual World Press Photo Contest and the 7th annual World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest.
If you are not familiar with this annual contest, the World Press Photos of the year honors the photographer whose visual creativity and skills made a picture that captures or represents an issue of great journalistic importance in the last year. The jury selected an image by Turkish photographer, Burhan Ozbilici as the World Press Photo of the year. His photograph shows how an off-duty police officer assassinated the Russian ambassador to Turkey.
We selected some of our favorites but you can see all the winning entries here.
