Each month, The Associated Press management honors photographers for outstanding photo coverage while on assignment.

The winners for the April 2015 AP Staff Photo Contest are, in News photography, a series chronicling the devastating earthquake in Nepal and Felipe Dana in Feature photography for “Portraits in Crackland” a series of portraits chronicling people in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Sports photography no winner.

Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month’s winning images are featured below.

News Photography | Nepal Earthquake

APTOPIX Nepal Earthquake

The shadow of an Indian Air Force aircraft carrying relief material is cast on clouds as it approaches landing in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers -- Nepal's earthquake-hit capital was short on everything Monday as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families' needs. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

APTOPIX Nepal Earthquake

A house on the higher reaches of mountains, destroyed in Saturday's earthquake is seen from a helicopter near Dhadingbesti, in Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The first aid shipments reached a hilly district near the epicenter of Nepal's earthquake, a U.N. food agency official said, and distribution of food and medicine would start Wednesday, five days after the quake struck. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Nepal Earthquake

Villagers wait in the rain as an aid relief helicopter lands at their remote mountain village of Gumda, near the epicenter of Saturday's massive earthquake in the Gorkha District of Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Nepal Earthquake Economy

In this April 26, 2015 file photo, Nepalese people look at a cracked road after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. In mere seconds a powerful earthquake flattened a swathe of Nepal. Rebuilding the impoverished Himalayan nation's fragile economy will require a long slog, financed by foreign aid and money from its army of overseas workers.(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

APTOPIX Nepal Earthquake

Nepalese victims of Saturday's earthquake lie inside an Indian air force helicopter as they are evacuated from Trishuli Bazar to Kathmandu airport in Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The death toll from Nepal's earthquake is expected to rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Nepal Earthquake

A Buddhist monk salvages a statue of a Buddhist deity from a monastery around the famous Swayambhunath stupa after it was damaged by Saturday's earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. In mere seconds, Saturday's earthquake devastated a swathe of Nepal. Three of the seven World Heritage sites in the Kathmandu Valley have been severely damaged, including Durbar Square with pagodas and temples dating from the 15th to 18th centuries, according to UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

APTOPIX Nepal Earthquake

A child injured in Saturday's earthquake, is carried by a Nepalese soldier after being evacuated as they wait to disembark from an Indian Air Force helicopter at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015. The death toll from Nepal's earthquake is expected to rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Nepal Earthquake Survivor

A Nepalese man being rushed to hospital on a stretcher after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and US rescuers alive from the debris of a building five days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, April 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

APTOPIX Nepal Earthquake

A Hindu man receives a tonsure as part of rituals during the cremation of a relative, a victim of Saturday's earthquake, at the Pashupatinath temple on the banks of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 1, 2015. As bodies were recovered, relatives cremated the dead along the Bagmati River, with pyres burning late into the night. (AP Photo/Bernat Amangue)

Nepal Earthquake

As night falls a family believing their faith in the Hindu gods saved them from last week's massive earthquake builds a makeshift tent in the Pujari village below the Gorkha Kalika temple in the Gorkha District of Nepal, Friday, May 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

APTOPIX Nepal Earthquake

A woman is comforted during the funeral of her mother, a victim of Saturday's earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 1, 2015. The U.N. said the quake affected 8.1 million people, more than a fourth of Nepal's population of 27.8 million, and that more than 1.4 million needed food assistance. (AP Photo/Bernat Amangue)

Feature Photography | Portraits in Crackland by Felipe Dana

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