The Predator’s Fins: Atho Ullah, Indonesia. 3rd place, Portfolio category. A freshly caught shark is taken ashore. Efforts to regulate shark fishing in Indonesia are not effective enough. Lack of awareness of the role sharks play in the ocean’s ecosystem poses a major threat to marine life. (Photo by Atho Ullah/2020 Hamdan International Photography Award)

In this Thursday, May 24, 2018, photograph, artists of Ukraine's Artel Myth theatre perform “A day in the life of Ukrainians” at the Living Statues International Festival, in Bucharest, Romania. Up to thirty thousand people enjoyed a week of street performances by reputed artists from eight countries in the “largest European festival of the genre”. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)

An Indonesian model wearing a colorful costume participates in a parade during the Batam Island International Culture Festival in Batam Island, Indonesia, 16 December 2017. Batam Island, an industrial area in Indonesia, is boosting the tourism sector to improve the economy of its community by eyeing the visitors' boom of next door country Singapore. (Photo by Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA/EFE)

Base jumper Denis Odintsov from Russian leaps from the 300-meters Open Deck of the Malaysia's landmark Kuala Lumpur Tower during the International Tower Jump in Kuala Lumpur on September 27, 2013. Some 103 professional base jumpers from 20 countries are taking part in the annual event. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP Photo)

Typhoon Bopha moves toward the Philippines, observed from the ISS, on December 2, 2012. (Photo by AP Photo/NASA via The Atlantic)

Brazilian natives of the Pareci tribe play head football with a hand-made ball for a demonstration, during the first day of the International Games of Indigenous Peoples, in Cuiaba, state of Mato Grosso, on November 10, 2013. 1500 natives from 49 Brazilian ethnic groups and from another 17 countries are gathering in Cuiaba until November 16 to compete in some 30 athletic disciplines, many of their own. (Photo by Christophe Simon/AFP Photo)

The 8th annual Miss International Queen beauty pageant was held in Pattaya in Thailand. The twenty-one contestants from fifteen countries were all born male, so the Miss International Queen 2012 pageant is not an average beauty pageant.

Photo: Panvilas Mongkol, a contestant from Thailand, waits for the start of the final night of Miss International Queen 2012 transgender/transsexual beauty pageant in Pattaya November 2, 2012. Some 21 contestants from 15 countries, all of them born male, compete in the week-long event for the crown of Miss International Queen 2012. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)