Cuatro españoles entre los nominados a los World Press Photo del año del Covid

Anais, 26, who wants to remove the Emancipation statue in Lincoln Park in Washington, DC, argues with a man who argues to keep it, June 25th, 2020. Critics say the Emancipation Memorial — which shows Lincoln holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation as an African American man in a loincloth kneels at his feet — is demeaning in its depiction of African Americans. The drive to remove the statue comes amid a wave of calls to take down monuments of Confederate generals.

Indonesia, 18 April 2020 The body of a suspected coronavirus victim, wrapped in yellow infectious waste plastic bags and wrappers, lies on the patient's deathbed awaiting a body bag in a hospital in Indonesia. The wrapping of the patient, which takes two nurses a full hour to complete through three layers of plastic and nine times of disinfection, is intended to suppress the spread of coronavirus. As mandated by the Indonesian Ministry of Health, the wrapping of the body is a standard procedure for every suspected, comorbid, and positive confirmed COVID-19 death. This process continues until today. As is the case with most victims, family members were not allowed to say goodbye. After the image was published by National Geographic, the image sparked denial and uproar across social media. Many who saw the image declared it to be a set up intended to spread fear. By the end of the year, 563 medical workers in Indonesia have perished due to the pandemic, with the country’s coronavirus toll reaching over 800,000 cases and 20,000 deaths. (Off the record: due to privacy reasons, I am legally bound not to identify the patient, the identity of the hospital, or indicate the hospital’s local geographic location e.g. city, town, etc. The most detail I can include about the hospital would be the country location.)

Herny Lenayasa, a Samburu man and chief of the settlement of Archers Post tries to scare away a massive swarm of locust ravaging an area next to Archers Post, Samburu County, Kenya on April 24, 2020. A locust plague fueled by unpredictable weather patterns up to 20 times larger than a wave two months earlier is threatening to devastate parts of East Africa. Locust has made already a devastating appearance in Kenya, two months after voracious swarms -some billions strong- ravaged big areas of land and just as the coronavirus outbreak has begun to disrupt livelihoods. In spite of coronavirus-related travel restrictions, international experts are in place to support efforts to eradicate the pest with measures including ground and aerial spraying. The Covid-19 pandemic has competed for funding, hampered movement and delayed the import of some inputs, including insecticides and pesticides. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called the locust outbreak, caused in part by climate change, “an unprecedented threat” to food security and livelihoods. Its officials have called this new wave some 20 times the size of the first. Photo: Luis Tato for The Washington Post

85-year-old Rosa Luzia Lunardi is embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza. The first hug she receives in five months.

BEIRUT, LEBANON - AUGUST 4: Firefighters work to put out the fires that engulfed the warehouses in the port of Beirut after the explosion. (Photo by Lorenzo Tugnoli/ Contrasto for The Washington Post)

A local resident of Areg sits outside a burning house in the village of Karegakh, Nagorno-Karabakh. Some residents burned their houses before leaving.

April 23th, 2020. Pantin, Santilly funeral directors, based in 93. There are approximately 4 times more deaths than normal due to the coronavirus. They have to adapt. Baptiste, a business manager, has rented 3 refrigerated trucks which allow him to store. He wanted to avoid storing them at Rungis. Here is one of them. 14 coffins are undertaken.

Operation « Chardon ». April 10,th 2020. 45 victims of Covid_19 from all over Paris and around, are transferred in two TGVs in the direction of Bordeaux and Poitiers. The objective is to relieve congestion in the hospitals of Ile de France saturated with patients sick of covid-19. The operation is coordinated by the SAMU. (And the SNCF). On the train to Bordeaux :: the patients are placed on the ground floor of the train. To enter, you have to equip yourself. They are 4 per train. All are intubated. Electricity in a train is discontinuous. They are all connected to a generator that takes over when the electricity goes out.

France-Calais 11/30/2020 Palliative care center at the Calais hospital. Manon, 24, suffering from metastatic cancer embraces her 7-year-old son Ethan in the presence of Peyo who accepts to be touched and caressed by her alone. "With Peyo, we try to recreate life at the end of life, in order to fight, and create an energy to accompany families and caregivers," Hassen says.

California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) playing wiht KN95 mask in Monterey, CA.

A dead deer lies in a pasture burned by wildfires in an area of the Pantanal devastated by a wildfires from which even the swiftest of animals could not escape. In 2020 the Pantanal faced the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to October, fires burned 4.200.000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 28% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Will Renke [35] - Every two weeks, Will Renke buys a new firearm. How long he’s been doing this and how many guns he has, he prefers not to say. “My collection? It’s big. Really, really big.” Underneath the solid image of a bright young entrepreneur, it’s clear that he’s moved when he thinks back on the time he first fired a gun, at the age of 10, and on the shotgun itself, a Fox Savage .410 that he keeps carefully preserved. “Nothing is more important, because I don’t think of it simply as a gun. It’s a piece of history, something that was given to me by my grandfather and that I will want to give to my children.” His grandfather imparted another lesson, as well, about “the importance of safety and the knowledge that you never pull the trigger unless you know exactly what’s in front of you”. He is firmly convinced that violence is intrinsically linked to human nature and to a decline in values, both family and otherwise. “People only care about their own interests, so, if hurting someone is in that interest, they won’t hesitate. The next generations will have a chance to improve things if they learn responsibility, if they know how to communicate with others, if they respect their families, their schools, and the President, too, even when they don’t like him.”