Carolina Gutierrez (center L), 17, and Neuil Valdez, 18, use mobile phones to connect to the internet at a hotspot in downtown Havana, Cuba, December 12, 2016. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)

People are reflected in mirrors as they walk in a busy shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, December 25, 2015. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

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)

This photo taken on October 8, 2017 shows dancers posing in formation to celebrate the upcoming Party Congress, in Rongan in China' s southern Guangxi region. China will convene its 19 th Party Congress on October 18, state media said, a key meeting held every five years where President Xi Jinping is expected to receive a second term as the ruling Communist Party' s top leader. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

A thirsty timber wolf, Lithuania, 2018. (Photo by Erikas Plucas/Alamy Stock Photo)

Dancers are warming up backstage during the Tango Dancing Tournament at the XIII International Tango Festival in Medellin, Colombia, on June 18, 2019. The Tango Festival takes place between the 16th and 24th of June. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP Photo)

A woman wearing a protective mask walks through a platform of a train station during the afternoon rush hours as the Omicron variant continues to spread, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 3, 2022. (Photo by Willy Kurniawan/Reuters)

Sunset at Walakiri Beach, Sumba in East Nusantenggara, Indonesia in 2019. (Photo by Aries Hendrick Apriyanto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)