Israelis sit by as a man poses while jumping into the pool of the natural water spring of Ein al-Faraah near the Palestinian village of Doura, west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, during the Jewish religious holiday of Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles) on October 17, 2019. (Photo by Hazem Bader/AFP Photo)
An aircraft flies past sculptures of dinosaurs at the “Valley of Animals” park in Chandigarh, India on November 9, 2019. (Photo by Vijay Mathur/AFP Photo)
Shortlisted: Pooyan Shadpoor, Houcheraghi. While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran – an island in the Persian Gulf – Shadpoor came across this luminous scene. The “magical lights of (the) plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot”, he writes. (Photo by Pooyan Shadpoor/2016 EPOTY)
A runner participates in the Santa Run 10K race in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, December 19, 2021. This is the first Santa Run since the start of the pandemic. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)
A health worker pretends to give a shot to a girl's doll to help put her at ease before giving her a shot of the Coronavac vaccine for COVID-19, at a sports center as children age 5 – 11 start getting vaccinated in Asuncion, Paraguay, Monday, January 31, 2022. (Photo by Jorge Saenz/AP Photo)
A bystander walks past a fresco by street artist Seth depicting a girl with a Ukrainian flag walking on tanks in Paris on March 01, 2022. (Photo by Joel Saget/AFP Photo)