"Suffering and triumph on a massive scale. All of it under-reported. And frustration. Frustration that no-one seems to be paying attention. That about sums up my posting to the Congo so far," writes John Wessels, a photographer based in Kinshasa.
"As soon as we stepped off the plane, the cameras were rolling. Not our cameras. The government's," writes Joe Freeman, a reporter based in Bangkok, of his government-organized tour of northern Rakhine state in Myanmar, the epicentre of the Rohingya crisis.
“'Where is the ice?' That’s the question that I heard most often when people saw the images from my Antarctica trip," writes Mathilde Bellenger, a video journalist based in Chile who recently visited the white continent.
“I felt an intense flash of heat and turned around and saw a ball of fire coming towards me. I didn’t know what it was. I just followed it, snapping away without stopping. Then I heard the screams and realized what had happened. Ten seconds and it was over,” writes Ronaldo Schemidt of the photograph -- a Venezuelan protester in flames -- that earned his the prestigious 2018 World Press Photo of the Year.
"I never thought that I would have any kind of empathy for reptiles. They’re not exactly the most lovable creatures," writes Loren Elliott, a photographer based in Houston, Texas.
"But attending the the largest Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas may have changed my mind."
