- 1st Place, News Portrait and Personality
- Olivier Douliery/ABACA PRESS
HEAD SHOT His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet poses during festivities at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Tibet’s spiritual leader received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by US lawmakers.
- 1st
- Olivier Douliery
- ABACA PRESS
- 2nd
- Genaro Molina
- Los Angeles Times
- 3rd
- Per-Anders Pettersson
- Reportage by Getty Images
- HM
- Platon
- TIME Magazine
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