2017 Portrait/Personality
First Place - 2017 Portrait/Personality
In this Feb. 4, 2017 photo, Melinda Quispe walks on the trash strewn shore of Lake Titicaca, as she holds her dog, in her village Kapi Cruz Grande, in the Puno region of Peru. The governments of Peru and Bolivia signed a pact in January to spend more than $500 million to attack the pollution problem of Lake Titicaca, though the details were vague.
Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press
Second Place - 2017 Portrait/Personality
Hurricane Maria aftermath in Puerto Rico Wilmair Flores, 55, poses sitting on the bed of her house damaged by Hurricane Maria in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico Oct. 2, 2017. Many of the American island territory's more than 3 million residents are still without electricity, gas and water. President Trump is scheduled to tour the devastation in Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
Andres Kudacki / TIME Magazine
Third Place - 2017 Portrait/Personality
In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, Insha Mushtaq Malik poses for a portrait inside her home in Sedow south Kashmir. Insha says she was standing by the window of her village home watching protesters and troops skirmish when more than a 100 pellets hit her face, "Everything looks dark and black,". Five-months after she lost her eyes Malik is still learning how to deal with her loss, both emotionally and practically. Indian authorities call the shotgun shells filled with hundreds of small metal pellets a "non-lethal" weapon for crowd control, but that does not make them harmless. They've inflicted a permanent toll on hundreds of Kashmiris hit by them.
Bernat Armangue / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2017 Portrait/Personality
Linda Ciccariello Squire presses herself lean against the Cave Hill Cementery niche of her son, Jonathan Squire, who passed on Jan. 12, 2015 from a fentanyl overdose, at the age of 25. "He was bright and talented and full of life," Linda said. "He had a spark. He had a light." In the wake of her son's death, Linda has started the Johnny Squire Foundation to help raise awareness. "In my loss, in my grief, I can still speak out," Linda said. "Heroin and fentanyl took my son's life, but it didn't take his spirit." Aug. 24, 2017
Alton Strupp / The Courier-Journal
Honorable Mention - 2017 Portrait/Personality
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, Keron Sembuya, who teachers believe to be around 4 or 5 years old, stands for a photograph at the Mpugwe Parents Junior School which he attends in Masaka, Uganda. He is missing out on potential financial support for his schooling because he does not have a birth certificate.
Ben Curtis / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2017 Portrait/Personality
Pedro Hernandez (L) and his daughter Vanesa pose while dressed as traditional carnival characters "Harramachos", that wear cowbells, animal antlers and agricultural decor and are thought to ward off evil spirits and awaken the coming spring, during a carnival celebration in the village of Navalacruz, Spain, February 25, 2017.
Susana Vera / Reuters