2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
First Place: Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
First Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rapa das Bestas is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains. The best known is the Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo, in the city hall of A Estrada, which lasts three days: the First Saturday, Sunday and Monday in July. In fact, the name given to the celebration (Rapa das Bestas of Sabucedo), while in most places speaking about curros.
Javier Arcenillas
Second Place: Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Mehriz (Iran)- During the day of Ashura newborn babies are shown in public and offered to get the grace of Imam Hussein. This ritual is the first step for a fully devoted life to this leader grandson of Mahoma. The first month in islamic calendar, Muharram, has a special meaning in Iran, where shiite muslims are majority. Its the black month, the mourning days, the forbidden times. Being the highest point of it the 10th day of the month, the day of Ashura. The murder and mourning of the most beloved leader of shiites muslim, the Imam Hussein, is a strong tradition that is bigger than religion, politics or power in Iran. The love given to Hussein and his family breaks any forced rule by government and got together the whole nation.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Yazd (Iran)- The usual separation between women and men found in mosques in Iran is being done also inside the Hussainias or mourning centers.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Yazd (Iran)- Kids are being taught to love Imam Hussein from a very early age. Following the steps of their fathers Kids attend the mourning centers and perform as any adult.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Yazd (Iran)- Kabir Jameh is the main mosque in Yazd.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Yazd (Iran)- A kid is taking care of the door of a Hussainia during day time in Yazd. Hussainias are the places where the mournings take place every night during the Ashura week.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Yazd (Iran)- Hussainias are completely crowed so in order to get the speech of all different ceremony leaders to all the people a closed tv system is being displayed.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Taft (Iran)- Taft in the province of Yazd hold the biggest and oldest Nakhl in Iran. During the day of Ashura the city can get ten thousands of pilmigrates, it has become one of the main destinations for this region.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Mehriz (Iran)- Various acts occur on the streets the day of Ashura: Parades, theater performing, offerings, food givings. Apart from the new year celebrations, the day of Ashura is one the most lively day on the year.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Yazd (Iran)- The death of Imam Hussein son, Ali Asghar, is being represented inside an arabic Hussainia in Yazd. Each of the ethnics groups in Iran have their one kind of representations and mourning centers.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Mehriz (Iran)- Coffins of dead soldiers of the Iran-Irak war are represented during a parade in the streets of Mehriz. Dead soldiers of that war are being considered martyrs for the government and have a very special treatment during all year.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Yazd (Iran)- Imam Hussein is the most beloved leader for shiites, his murder by Yazid really represents a sad time for shiites. The speeches, the music, the chest beatings all creates a magic atmosphere inside the Hussainias were people cry.
Jordi Perdigó
Second Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Yazd (Iran)- Tassua, the night before Ashura is known for the saddest moment of the week. The cheast beating and the crying gets its highest point.
Jordi Perdigó
Third Place: Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In Chicago's African American neighborhoods, a burgeoning coming-of-age ritual now accompanies spring prom. Called "the send-off," it's a party with family, friends and neighbors gathering at the young student's home to celebrate. Some are more highly anticipated than the prom itself. Kietta Saunders greets her cousin Faith Dilworth on the red carpet in Kietta's front yard during her prom send-off party Friday, May 9, 2014 in Elmwood Park.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Alex Watt puts on his bow tie, the red color scheme matching his date Jerlan Payne's dress that she hadn't put on yet, before their prom send-off party Friday, May 23, 2014 in Bronzeville.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Rahimah Gaither uses a cell phone flashlight to check Nailah Bradley's makeup as she prepares for prom Saturday, May 17, 2014.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Denzel Tolliver gets some assistance with his jacket while posing for pictures on the red carpet in from of his date Kietta Saunders' home before heading to prom Friday, May 9, 2014 in Elmwood Park.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Corsage-bearing young cousins walk out in a prom send-off party for cousins Jerqwanna Collins and Juavonna Baldwin and their dates Saturday, May 17, 2014 in North Lawndale.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Daniel Jackson opens the door for his date Nailah Bradley as they step out for their prom send-off party at her South Shore home Saturday, May 17, 2014.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Family, friends and neighbors reacts as Teairah Gaylord and Raymond Solomon make their red carpet entrance Friday, May 2, 2014 at their prom send-off party in an Austin backyard. Teairah, 17, is a senior at Notre Dame High School for Girls and the celebration was at her grandmother and great-grandmothers home.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Jerlan Payne looks for some guidance in attaching a boutonniere to her date Alex Watt on the stairs of her Bronzeville home during while family and friends take photos at her prom send-off party Friday, May 23, 2014.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Teairah Gaylord and Raymond Solomon dance their way along the red carpet Friday, May 2, 2014 with family, friends and neighbors at their prom send-off party in an Austin backyard. Teairah, 17, is a senior at Notre Dame High School for Girls and the celebration was at her grandmother and great-grandmothers home.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Jerqwanna Collins steps out to greet family and friends at her prom send-off party Saturday, May 17, 2014 in North Lawndale. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Teairah Gaylord and Raymond Solomon depart their prom send-off party Friday, May 2, 2014 in an Austin backyard. Teairah, 17, is a senior at Notre Dame High School for Girls and the celebration was at her grandmother and great-grandmothers home.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Third Place - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
Jerlan Payne says goodbye to family and friends as date Alex Watt checks for their prom tickets as they depart their send-off party Friday, May 23, 2014 in Bronzeville.
Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune
Honorable Mention: Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the worlds largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting their country has undergone. Since the 2002 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, some 3.8 million Afghans have returned to their home country, according to the U.N.s refugee agency. In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee girl, laiba Hazrat, 6, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee boy, Allam Ahmad, 6, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, photo, Afghan refugee girl, Basmina, 3, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee girl, Gul Bibi Shamra, 3, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee boy, Hayat Khan, 8, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee girl, Zarlakhta Nawab, 6, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee boy, Akhtar Babrek, 13, poses for a picture, in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee boy, Abdulrahman Bahadir, 13, poses for a picture, in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee girl, Robina Haseeb, 5, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee boy, Waheed Wazir, 6, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee girl, Naseebah Zarghoul, 6, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature Picture Story/Essay
In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee boy, Awal Gul, 12, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press