- 1st Place, Sports Feature
- freelance/Lisa Wiltse
Young Filipinos pass the time playing volleyball in Tambakan, Tondo district.
Tondo is a section of Manila separated from the rest of the city by the heavily polluted Pasig River. It is one of the most densely populated regions of the world with approximately 65,000 people per square kilometer. Legions of child rag pickers make a life searching streets for old pieces of cloth, plastic, paper and any other recyclable materials that they can sell. The children and the rest of the crushingly poor live in conditions that are unfathomable. Children who do this work suffer from health problems such as tuberculosis and scabies as well as injuries caused by scrambling over rubbish tips and skips.
- 1st
- freelance
- Lisa Wiltse
- 2nd
- Pailin Wedel
- Freelance
- 3rd
- Chris McGrath
- Getty Images South America
- HM
- David Rochkind
- Rapport Press
- HM
- Paul Sakuma
- Associated Press
- HM
- Ed Mulholland
- FightWireImages.com
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