AP monthly staff photo contest
Each month The Associated Press management honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment.
The winners for the March 2017 AP Staff Photo Contest are Felipe Dana in News Photography for “Iraq: The Casualties,” and Luis Soto and Moises Castillo in Feature Photography for “Guatemala Fire.”
Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month’s winning images are featured below.
News Photography | Felipe Dana
In this Tuesday, March 14, 2017 photo, a woman holds her daughters as gunshots are heard in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces in western Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this Friday, March 24, 2017 photo, civil protection rescue teams work on the debris of a destroyed house to recover the body of people killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Displaced Iraqis, fleeing fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, are board a truck before being taken to a camp on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
An alleged Islamic State fighter sits after being detained by Iraqi security forces on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this Sunday, March 19, 2017 photo, a federal police officer carries an injured boy through a destroyed train station during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A man stands on a sidewalk in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces during fighting against Islamic State militants on the western side of in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, March 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Children wait as their mother collects food being distributed in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security forces during fighting against Islamic State militants on the western side of in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, March 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Relatives and friends dig the graves of two civilians killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, March 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this Friday, March 24, 2017 photo, Ahmed Pesher cries next to the destroyed houses where he says 23 members of his family were killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Federal police fire towards Islamic State positions in the old city during fighting on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Iraqi civilians walk in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A Federal Police soldier lays on a couch before moving to a front line near the old city during fighting against Islamic State militants on the western side of in Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Feature Photography | Luis Soto and Moises Castillo
Charred-stained dolls placed on a bed of charcoal are part of an artists’ installation placed at the front gate of Presidential House, in remembrance of the victims of a fire at a youth shelter in Guatemala City, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Hospital officials say the death toll in the Wednesday morning fire at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home has risen to 28 after several more girls died overnight of severe burns. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
In this March 8, 2017 photo, a doctor shows photos of the victims in an attempt to identify them after a fire at the Virgen de la Asuncion Safe Home, outside the Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala City. When firefighters entered the home for troubled youths, they discovered more than two dozen girls on the floor of a locked room, most of them dead. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A woman who learned her child died in a youth shelter fire is consoled by her sister outside the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home, in San Jose Pinula, Guatemala, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. At least 19 girls have died after a fire at the shelter, which was created to house children who were victims of abuse, homelessness or who had completed sentences at youth detention centers and had nowhere else to go, the spokesman for Guatemala's volunteer fire departments said. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
People carry the coffin containing the remains of 14-year-old Ana Roselia Perez Junay, who died in a fire at a children's shelter, inside the cemetery in Zaragoza, Guatemala, Sunday, March 12, 2017. The death toll in the March 8 fire rose to 40 on Sunday with the announcement that another girl has died of burns. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
People help Gloria Perez as she begins to faint during the burial of 14-year-old Ana Roselia Perez Junay who died in a fire at a children's shelter, at the cemetery in Zaragoza, Guatemala, Sunday, March 12, 2017. The death toll in the March 8 fire rose to 40 on Sunday with the announcement that another girl has died of burns. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Funeral workers place into a hearse the coffin containing the remains of 14-year-old Ana Roselia Pérez Junay, a victim of the youth shelter fire, outside a morgue in Guatemala City, Saturday, March 11, 2017. A key Guatemalan official was ordered not to leave the country Saturday as the death toll rose to 38 girls in a fire that began when mattresses were set ablaze during a protest by residents of the youth shelter. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
A relative of a youth who resided at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home cries as she waits for the release of the names of those who died in a fire at the shelter, outside the morgue in Guatemala City, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Officials say they are still investigating who set the blaze that killed at least 31 girls and young women and left ten others battling for their lives, with severe burns that in some cases covered more than half their bodies. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Neighbors gather to attend the wake of 14-year-old Madelyn Patricia Hernandez Hernandez, a girl who died in a fire at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home, at "Cuatro de Febrero" neighborhood in Guatemala City, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Guatemala's president called for a restructuring of his country's youth shelter system following a fire that killed multiple girls at an overcrowded government facility for children, while grieving families began receiving the bodies of their loved ones. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
In this Friday, March 10, 2017 photo, Marta Lidia Garcia, center, cries during the wake of her 17-year-old daughter Siona Hernandez, who died in a fire at a children's shelter in which 40 perished, in Ciudad Peronia, Guatemala. Relatives and officials said the March 8 blaze began when girls set fire to mattresses to protest abuses at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe House. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
People hold a candlelight vigil outside the National Palace in remembrance of the girls who died in a fire at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home in Guatemala City, Thursday, March 9, 2017. A blaze, that killed at least 35 girls at a shelter for troubled youths, erupted when some of them set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution, the parent of one victim said Thursday. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A man holds up a Guatemalan national flag stained with fake blood during a protest demanding justice for the girls who perished in the youth shelter fire, in front of the National Palace in Guatemala City, Saturday, March 11, 2017. A key Guatemalan official was ordered not to leave the country Saturday as the death toll rose to 39 girls in a fire that began when mattresses were set ablaze during a protest by residents of the youth shelter. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
Neighbors attend the wake of 14-year-old Madelyn Patricia Hernandez Hernandez, a girl who died in a fire at the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home, at "Cuatro de Febrero" neighborhood in Guatemala City, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Guatemala's president called for a restructuring of his country's youth shelter system following a fire that killed multiple girls at an overcrowded government facility for children, while grieving families began receiving the bodies of their loved ones. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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