2014 Portrait/Personality
First Place - 2014 Portrait/Personality
In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 photo, a 30-year acid attack victim, name withheld on request, sits in the office of the Indian NGO Stop Acid Attacks, in New Delhi, India.
Altaf Qadri / Associated Press
Second Place - 2014 Portrait/Personality
Ebola survivor Sontay Massaley, 37, smiles upon her release from the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Ebola treatment center on October 12, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. Massaley, who spent 8 days recovering from the disease in the center, said she worked as a vendor in a market before contracting the virus, which has an average 70 percent mortality rate, according to the World Health Organization. Ebola leaves survivors immune to the strain that sickened them.
John Moore / Getty Images
Third Place - 2014 Portrait/Personality
A woman takes part in the preparations for your wedding in the district of Djicoroni , Bamako, April 24, 2014.
Juan Medina / Reuters
Honorable Mention - 2014 Portrait/Personality
Nallely Paola, 23 years old is a transsexual born and residing in Tegucigalpa who has suffered violence for years, and social rejection by their gender.
Javier Arcenillas
Honorable Mention - 2014 Portrait/Personality
Revolutionaries of Maidan Portrait series is presented by the participants of the Ukrainian crisis. Passionaries, men of action, not words, are ready to sacrifice their life for their ideas. People of one country, that is now divided ideologically and devoured by mutual hatred. Revolutionaries are members of the Maidan, namely fighters of the last and most symbolic boundary - Grushevskogo street. The portraits were taken in February a few days before bloody outcome - street revolution, which killed several dozen of people. Many of the revolutionaries joined the National Guard later and took part in the Civil war. National Guard lost hundreds of people killed and wounded. Fighter from Grushevskogo sreet
Misha Domozhilov / Freelancer
Honorable Mention - 2014 Portrait/Personality
Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation stands outside of one of the three remaining praise houses on St. Helena Island, S.C. Built during slavery, they were small places of worship for the Gullah and still serve an important spiritual role in the Gullah community. The Gullah Geechee people are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to America from West Africa. The Gullah Geechee Coast extends for hundreds of miles between Cape Fear, N.C., and the St. Johns River in Florida. In 2004, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Gullah Geechee Coast one of the 11 most endangered placed in the United States.
Pete Marovich / Self