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View the entire collection of winning images from the 59th World Press Photo Contest. They were selected from 82,951 photos made by 5,775 photographers from 128 different countries. Photo of the year 2015 selected by jury is a man passes a baby through the fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border in Röszke, Hungary, 28 August 2015. Author Warren Richardson, freelance photojournalist currently working in Eastern Europe. For 60 years already, World Press Photo has encouraged the highest standards in photojournalism. The resulting archive is not only a record of more than half a century of human history, but a showcase of successive styles in visual storytelling. Categories photos were selected for 59th Photo Contest were: Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, General News, Long-Term Projects, Nature, People, Sports, Spot News. All winners you can review on World Press Photo Winners page. 
A man passes a baby through the fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border in Röszke, Hungary, 28 August 2015 
Sports category 1st place. Czech Republic's Ondrej Bank crashes during the downhill race of the Alpine Combined at the FIS World Championships in Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA. 
Sports category 2nd place. Ron Baker (31) shoots over Nick Zeisloft (2) as Hanner Mosquera-Perea (12) and Rashard Kelly (0) battle for position under basket at the NCAA 2015 Mens Basketball Tournament game with Wichita State versus Indiana at the CenturyLink Center. 
Sports category 3rd place. Members of the Neptun Synchro synchronized swimming team perform during a Christmas show in Stockholm, Sweden. 
General News 1st place. A doctor rubs ointment on the burns of Jacob, a 16-year-old Islamic State fighter, in front of a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, at a Y.P.G. hospital compound on the outskirts of Hasaka, Syria. 
General News 2nd place. Refugees travel in darkness through Europe to avoid detection in Lesbos, Greece. 
General News 3rd place. Aerial view of the destruction after the explosion in Tianjin, China. 
Nature 1st place. A massive 'cloud tsunami' looms over Sydney as a sunbather reads, oblivious to the approaching cloud on Bondi Beach. 
Nature 2nd place. Divers observe and surround a humpback whale and her newborn calf whilst they swim around Roca Partida in the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico. 
Nature 3rd place. Colima Volcano in Mexico shows a powerful night explosion with lightning, ballistic projectiles and incandescent rockfalls; image taken in the Comala municipality in Colima, Mexico. 
People 1st place. A child is covered with a raincoat while she waits in line to register at a refugee camp in Preševo, Serbia. 
People 2nd place. A mine worker takes a smoke break before going back into the pit. Miners in Bani face harsh conditions and exposure to toxic chemicals and heavy metals. 
People 3rd place. Portrait of a Syrian refugee family in a camp in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. The empty chair in the photograph represents a family member who has either died in the war or whose whereabouts are unknown. 
Contemporary Issues 1st place. A city in northern China shrouded in haze, Tianjin, China. 
Contemporary Issues 2nd place. Adam Abdel, 7, was severely burned after a bomb was dropped by a Sudanese government Antonov plane next to his family home in Burgu, Central Darfur, Sudan. 
Contemporary Issues 3rd place. Lamon Reccord stares down a police sergeant during a protest following the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by police in Chicago, Illinois, USA. 
Spot News 2nd place. Demonstration against terrorism in Paris, after a series of five attacks occurred across the Île-de-France region, beginning at the headquarters for satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. 
Spot News 3rd place. The body of a victim killed in gang-related violence in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. This is the fourth gang-related killing on the same street in one night. Police have no witnesses. 
Daily Life 1st place. Chinese men pull a tricycle in a neighborhood next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China.
A history of heavy dependence on burning coal for energy has made China the source of nearly a third of the world's total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the toxic pollutants widely cited by scientists and environmentalists as the primary cause of global warming. 
Daily Life 2nd place. Indigenous Munduruku children play in the Tapajos river in the tribal area of Sawre Muybu, Itaituba, Brazil.
The tribesmen of the Munduruku, who for centuries have sanctified the Tapajos River on which their villages sit, are fighting for survival. Brazil’s government plans to flood much of their land to build a $9.9 billion hydroelectric dam, the Sao Luiz do Tapajos, as part of a wider energy strategy across the Amazon rainforest. 
Daily Life 3rd place. Raheleh, who was born blind, stands behind the window in the morning. She likes the warmness of the sunlight on her face.
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