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Winner
Tomas van Houtryve
VII Photo Agency

"BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF 21ST CENTURY COMMUNISM"

Finalist
Javier Arcenillas
Freelance

"SICARIOS"

Finalist
Mary F. Calvert
ZUMA Press

"POLIO'S LINE IN THE SAND"

Finalist
Ed Ou
Getty Images

"THE YOUTH OF AN UNFINISHED REVOLUTION"

Finalist
Mary F. Calvert
ZUMA Press


"POLIO'S LINE IN THE SAND"

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Umar, 8, son of Aminu Ahmen El Wada, the Founder and Chairman of the Kano State Polio Victims Trust Association and crippled with polio, stands with the help of his crutch, next to the family sewing machine while an unidentified older brother sews at their home in Kano, Nigeria. There are seven children in the family and Umar is the only child with polio and the only one who was not born in a hospital and contracted the virus when he was a toddler. Both of his parents are crippled with polio.