THE MOMENT

K. M. Asad Bangladesh

Rohingya Exodus

Myanmar Muslim Rohingya refugee mother try to protect her child from rain walk in the muddy field entered in Teknaf Bangladesh. According to the UNHCR more than 520,000 Rohingya refugees have fled from Myanmar violence since 25 August 2017, most trying to cross the border and reach Bangladesh. International organisations have reported claims of human rights violations and summary executions allegedly carried out by the Myanmar army.

Paul Nicklen Canada

Going airborne!

An airborne penguin shows why it has a need for speed: To get out of the water, it may have to clear several feet of ice. A fast exit also helps it elude leopard seals, which often lurk at the ice edge. Emperor Penguins shot from the Mario Zuchelli Base, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Penguins at Floe Edge at Terra Nova.

Maxim Korotchenko Russian Federation

Before an accident

People are running out from the racing truck "MAZ" at the russian rally-raid championship "Zoloto Kagana", Astrakhan, Russia.

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Marcos Furer Argentina

The Helper

Annual Branding at one of the local "Estancias" in Argentina. This dog helps the cowboys driving the cattle throughout the day.

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Rubo Wu China

Life Saver

祖和（zuhe）丁（Ding） China

The attitude of the monks

A racing train, six tired travelers, a man, a woman, an old man, a child, the car's 6 people or sitting or lying, travelers tired of the panoramic view, and the other five travelers is different, The center of the left side of the screen is a monk sitting Zen, he is the only old man in the picture. The monk's kneeling, the back upright, the micro-jaw head, which is the Buddhist standard Zen sitting posture, the monk's long-sleeved natural sagging, and the opposite of the sleeping woman, the screen front-end sleeping boy in sharp contrast. This is a speed of the screen, speeding the train, the rush of the Walker; This is a can see the quiet picture, Zen sitting monks, sweet sleeping children; Perhaps the human world is like this, no matter how much disappointment and pain, there are always some people stick to that side of the pure land.

Jasem Khlef Canada

look far away

Those who look to the image of this lady at first glance wondering what the reason of her reaction And if you focusing more through her eyes sees she were not looking for the camera, but completely moiety. This lady was directress of model school and she now suffering from Alzheimer's, and everyone knows what the effect of this Alzheimer's I was trying take a spontaneously scene

MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER BROWN United States of America

Goatherder and Mount Mikeno

A young goatherder tends to his goats in the foreground of Mount Mikeno, a volcano located in the Virunga Mountains, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mahdi Pourebadi Iran

Loneliness

The tree knows loneliness

Quanhui Liu China

Veteran artist

Yousif Theyab Kuwait

The legend of heaven

this bird (white tailed eagle) was photographed through a workshop in Poland specifically in the area of Gostynin

Paul Nicklen Canada

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Probal Rashid Bangladesh

The Rohingya Exodus

After trekking for days through verdant-green paddy fields, they cross a precipitous waterfall, with the black smoke of their torched villages billowing in the distance. The strongest carry the weakest on their backs or on bamboo. Then, under the cover of night, comes the most dangerous stage of their journey -- crossing land-mined border regions between Myanmar and Bangladesh and the silted waters of the Naf River. Here, some scramble down muddy ravines or wade through waist-deep water to get across. Others take their chances by paying for space in a rickety fishing boat. According to the United Nations estimates about 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar since August 25, 2017. The latest surge brings the total number to 587,000 Rohingya who have sought refuge in Bangladesh since October last year. The new arrivals are scattered in different locations in south-eastern Bangladesh. More than 30,000 Rohingya are estimated to have sought shelter in the existing refugee camps of Kutupalong and Nayapara. Many others are living in makeshift sites and local villages. Rohingyas began to flee from military oppression—first in 1978 and then again in 1991-92—in major influxes of some 500,000 people. Presently, around 32,000 registered refugees stay in the UNHCR-run camps in Cox’s Bazar, while another estimated 500,000 unregistered live outside the camps. Consequently, most of the unregistered refugees are deemed underprivileged according to the scale of basic human rights. The Bangladeshi government has accommodated the Rohingyas to a certain point, but considering limited resources as well as the poor conditions its own population lives under, it is hardly in a position to resolve the issue on its own. The Rohingya refugee issue has been a long-standing problem and, unfortunately, the international community has remained mostly mute, unwilling to play a role in helping to resolve the problem. More than 35 years since it began, the Rohingyas' crisis is long overdue for a solution.

Boryana Katsarova Bulgaria

Migrant's Winter Journey

Migrant's Winter Journey is a visual story about the daily life reality that some 1,500 migrants mainly from Afghanistan and Pakistan were facing while living in a derelict warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, as the winter temperatures in the Balkan country in January 2017 dropped to more than minus 10°C during the day and above minus 15°C during the night. With no running water, electricity or windows in the building the conditions in which they were living were inhuman. According to UNHCR more than 60% of them were unaccompanied minors, and most of them made the journey from Afghanistan to Serbia alone, in groups or with the help of smugglers, risking their lives.They all were hoping that the borders along the Balkan Migration Route will reopen and they will continue their journey towards dreamed West European countries and a new life. Serbia, a non European state, was one of the countries where some 7,000 migrants found themselves stranded after the EU-Turkey Refugees Agreement was reached in March 2016 and the humanitarian corridor known as the Balkan Migration Route was closed and with it the flow of migrants towards Western Europe. Most of the migrants who came to Serbia clandestinely by crossing from Macedonia or Bulgaria on their road to their dreamed West European countries, found themselves stranded in Serbia and were sheltered in government camps with no possibility for integration in the Serbian society and for a better new life. But some 1,500 migrants had their asylum requests refused by the authorities or had expulsion papers and were afraid to go to the camps as they didn’t want to be sent back to Macedonia or Bulgaria, from where they first entered in Serbia, a rule that applies according to the Dublin agreement. Those migrants were living on the streets or in abandoned places as the warehouse behind the central bus station in Belgrade, where they settled as the winter approached in the Balkan country in October, 2016. They became the forgotten migrants. In 2015 and 2016 more than one million people from countries mainly from the Middle East, but also from Asia and Africa crossed the humanitarian corridor known as the Balkan Migration Route on their way to dreamed last destination countries in Western Europe, running to escape wars, violence and economical instability in their homelands.

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Sergio Sberna Italy

Landscapes in the fog

The fog clears the boundaries, creates intimate reality, trees like ghosts leave imperceptible marks in the nothingness, man's ways and things are lost in infinity

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Mohammed Almessabi United Arab Emirates

Beno Saradzic United Arab Emirates

ELYSIUM

Skylines of Dubai and Abu Dhabi are, without a doubt, among the most imposing and photogenic ones in the world. The quiet giants of the UAE inspire awe and admiration of every photographer. Seeing them soar above and interact with a seasonal fog is a spectacle to behold. No filming technique is better suited to capture this fantastic and otherworldly event than time lapse cinematography.