2014 Feature
First Place - 2014 Feature
In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, performers get ready backstage before a performance at the Mayak cabaret, the most reputable gay club in Sochi, Russia, host to 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia adopted a law last year, prohibiting vaguely defined propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and pedophilia. The legislation makes it illegal to disseminate information to children even if it merely shows that gay people are just like everybody else. At Mayak, packed on Saturday night, gay men and women steered away from discussing the law, preferring to enjoy life, closeted as it is. About a hundred people were chatting at the bar, sitting in armchairs or dancing. Couples were sharing kisses. Everyone was waiting for the club's specialty: a drag show. At 1.30 a.m. on Sunday, the music stopped and the show began.
David Goldman / Associated Press
Second Place - 2014 Feature
Children play while a penitent watches at penitents from 'Jesus en su Tercera Cada.' brotherhood marching during the procession in Zamora, Spain, Monday, April 14, 2014. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week.
Andres Kudacki / Associated Press
Third Place - 2014 Feature
A woman reacts as she listens to a fortune telling machine at a beach along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai April 2, 2014.
Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
Honorable Mention - 2014 Feature
A Syrian Kurdish woman waits with her daughter near the Syria border at the southeastern town of Suruc in the Sanliurfa province after crossing the border between Syria and Turkey on October 2, 2014. Islamic State fighters are pushing towards a key Kurdish town on Syria's border with Turkey, whose parliament is set on October 2 to consider authorising military intervention against the jihadists on its doorstep.
Bulent Kilic / Agence France-Presse