“the photo raises issues of technology, globalisation, migration, poverty, desperation, alienation, (and) humanity.’’

said Jillian Edelstein, one jury of the Jury members of the independent, non-profit 57th World Press Photo Contest about the winning photo called ‘SIGNAL’ This by American photographer John Stanmeyer (Instagram). The winners were selected from: 98,671 images, 5,754 PHOTOGRAPHERS,132 NATIONALITIES. View the entire collection of winning images here. Above (VIDEO), Jury chair and founder photographer VII Photo Agency Gary Knight (UK) talks about the World Press Photo Winner of the Year 2013.