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First Place
Daniel Berehulak
Reportage By Getty Images/The New York Times

Second Place
Marcus Bleasdale
Freelance

Third Place
Massimo Berruti
Freelance

Award of Excellence
Paolo Marchetti
Freelance

Award of Excellence
Sergey Ponomarev
Freelance
for The New York Times

Award of Excellence
Sergey Ponomarev
Freelance for The New York Times


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Kazakh wearing traditional dress seen prior to the opening of Kokpar tournament in Astana. Kokpar, known as buzkashi in Afghanistan, is a tough version of that gentlemanly game, polo. Instead of playing from the back of a horse with wooden mallets and a ball, riders use their bare hands and lean to pick up a headless sheep or goat from the ground. They then race to the goal clutching the dead animal.

 

 

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