Here Are The Best Pictures Of Px3 “State Of The World Photography” Contest That Sum Up 2020 (30 Pics)

An ‘ice stupa’ is an artificial glacier that stores waste stream waters so that the water can be used at a later date when supplies are scarce. It has been cleverly devised and is used as a solution to the water crisis faced by local farmers in Kashmir, northern India.

The conical tower shape ensures that the surface exposed to the sun is minimal, so premature melting is avoided. The idea is simple – it needs no pumps or power, instead of relying on the physics of water and uses the otherwise wasteful streamflow water.

Photograph by: Greg White, India.

Photograph by: Tyler Bensinger, USA.

Refugee camp in the area of Malakasa, Greece. It was quarantined twice. The approximately 2,500 refugees, living in the camp, are at risk from coronavirus, as well as from the terrible shortages of food, medicine, and other basic necessities.

Photograph by: Orestis Ilias, Greece.

Far east. Steel foundries. Life here has a circular flow, in the morning the workers get up early, there are those who prepare meals for the others in turn. The shifts begin and the men are all busy demolishing old shipwrecks coming from all over the world, the metal is cut, worked, melted, and again transformed.

Only the metal here changes life, these men are not, they are always here, every day. Every day until the evening until the siren sounds the arrival of sunset. A human chain made of fatigue, sweat, and hard work. Many curious eyes and friendly smiles. Men to respect.

Photograph by: Nicola Ducati, India.

As we stay at home on the Covid-19 lockdown, it is easy to slide into self-pity. It is also easy to forget that there are people in this world who do not live in privileged European bubbles. The laborers in Yangon Port have to lug 50-kilo sacks of rice in sweltering heat from boats to trucks to make ends meet. For every sack carried they receive tally sticks for which their reward is a few Kyat.

The lockdowns in Burma deprive millions of their livelihoods. The hardest hit are those who survive just above the poverty line. For them, hunger and poverty will not vanish after the lockdowns are lifted.

Photograph by: Frank Lynch, Myanmar.

INTIME is an almost 100-year-old pub situated in the heart of Frederiksberg in Copenhagen, Denmark. Intime is recognized for its disarmingly friendly atmosphere, which celebrates the free queer spirit and musicality.

Photograph by: Magnus Cederlund, Denmark.

Sax player shot outside his house with a balloon to represent isolation. “There is a story in every image; my goal is to tell it like no one else can.”

Photograph by: Fadi Acra, USA.

Ever since the Hong Kong Government tried to pass the Extradition Bill, which would enable the PRC Government to lawfully arrest people in Hong Kong who violate the law in China upon the approval of the Hong Kong Chief Executive, the fear and anger of Hong Kong people to the government has been ignited.

Photograph by: Tsz Fung Cheng, Hong Kong.

What began in June 2019 as peaceful marches against a now-withdrawn extradition bill to mainland China has since morphed into a full-blown anti-government movement with "five key demands", transforming Hong Kong into an urban battleground between anti-government protestors and the city’s police force.

After 6 months of clashes and protests, November 2019 saw the Hong Kong Polytechnic University ("PolyU") become a battleground between anti-government protestors and the riot police who encircled them. After 12 days, the siege of PolyU was finally lifted - with nary a protestor left on campus.

Photograp by: Bing Guan, Hong Kong.

The Anglophone Crisis is a conflict in the South-West region of Cameroon, otherwise known as the 'Ambazonia War'. In September 2017, separatists in the Anglophone territories declared the independence of Ambazonia and began fighting against the Government of Cameroon. Starting as a low-scale insurgency during 2018, the conflict spread to most parts of the Anglophone regions and intensified. As of late 2019, the war has killed approximately 3,000 civilians and displaced more than half a million people.

Photograph by: Giles Clarke, Cameroon.