World Press Photo 2018: 6 finalists for Photo of the Year announced

The 61st World Press Photo competition, organized by the Dutch foundation since 1955, has announced 46 finalists across 8 categories from 73,044 entries by 4,548 photographers from 125 countries. The jury, chaired by Magdalena Herrera of GEO Magazine France, will reveal winners on April 12 in Amsterdam. Six images compete for the main prize, World Press Photo of the Year: Patrick Brown's Rohingya crisis (Bangladesh), Adam Ferguson's portrait of Aisha (Boko Haram survivor), Toby Melville's London attack aftermath, Ivor Prickett's two images from the Battle for Mosul, and Ronaldo Schemidt's Venezuela protest fire. Five Italian photographers are finalists: Giulio Di Sturco, Luca Locatelli, Francesco Pistilli, Fausto Podavini, and Alessio Mamo, the latter with a portrait of 11-year-old Manal, a missile victim in Kirkuk treated by Médecins Sans Frontières in Amman.