AP monthly staff photo contest

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

The winners for the October 2020 AP Photo Contest are Andreea Alexandru for News Photography Single Image, for her photo of a woman reflected in a tinted chapel window during the feast of St. Dimitrie of Basarabov in Bucharest, Romania.

Natacha Pisarenko for News Photography Story, for her series on people being evicted from a squatters camp by police in Guernica, Buenos Aires.

Maye-E Wong for Feature Photography Single Image, for her photo of of people waiting to ride a revolving swing at the Perry State Fair in New Lexington, Ohio.

Eduardo Verdugo, Jorge Saenz and Juan Karita for Feature Photography Story, for their combined coverage on an increase in child labor in South and Latin America due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Ashley Landis for Sports Photography Single Image, for her image of people in their vehicle outside Dodger Stadium as they watch the television broadcast of Game 1 of the 2020 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays in Los Angeles.

Christophe Ena, Alessandra Tarantino and Michel Euler for Sports Photography Story, for their combined coverage of the French Open tennis tournament in Paris..

Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month’s winning images, judged by Maya Alleruzzo, are featured below.

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News Photography Single Image | Andreea Alexandru

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Virus Outbreak Romania

A woman wearing a mask to protect against infection from COVID-19 is reflected in a tinted chapel window, along with a metal casing said to contain the remains of St. Dimitrie of Basarabov, the patron saint of the Romanian capital, in Bucharest, Romania on Oct. 25, 2020. The feast of St. Dimitrie of Basarabov, which usually lasts for a week and draws up to 100,000 people, was cut way back this year due to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

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News Photography Story | Natacha Pisarenko

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Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

A shack home burns as people are evicted from a squatters camp by police in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who have been squatting at the camp since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

A man is detained by police during the eviction of a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who have been squatting at the camp since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

A man carries a makeshift shield through tear gas launched by police during an eviction at a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

Police destroy shack homes as they carry out the eviction of a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

Police carry out an eviction at a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

Police destroy shack homes as they carry out evictions at a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

The sun rises over shack homes as police evict people from this squatters camp, burning some of them, in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

A police officer aims his weapon, as security forces fire tear gas and rubber bullets, during clashes with people after police broke up a squatters camp and evicted people living there in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

A youth stands on a shack home as police carry out evictions at a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

A man runs amid tear gas fired by police carrying out the eviction of a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who have been squatting at the camp since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

A shack home burns as police evict people from a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Virus Outbreak Argentina Squatters

Police carry out evictions at a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who are squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Feature Photography Single Image | Maye-E Wong

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Waiting in America

People wait to ride a revolving swing at the Perry State Fair in New Lexington, Ohio, Friday, July 24, 2020. In the towns that speckle the Appalachian foothills of southeast Ohio, the pandemic has barely been felt. Coronavirus deaths and racial protests - events that have defined 2020 nationwide - are mostly just images on TV from a distant America. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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Feature Photography Story | Eduardo Verdugo, Jorge Saenz and Juan Karita

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Child Labor

Andres Gomez works inside an amber mine near the community of Jotolchen II in Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The 11-year-old said that before the new coronavirus pandemic hit, he attended school and then would spend a couple of hours mining after class, but since the school closed in March he is spending entire days mining. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Child Labor

Juan Gabriel Vazquez, center, and his brothers walk to the corn fields to work in the community of Nuevo Yibeljoj in Chiapas state, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed a million lives and disrupted economies around the globe is also sending children like the Vazquez's back to work throughout the developing world, threatening gains made against child labor over the past 20 years. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Child Labor

Using a bed as a desk, Agustin Vazquez helps his sons Samuel and Hector with their schoolwork handed out by teachers amid the new coronavirus pandemic at their home in Nuevo Yibeljoj, Chiapas state, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. “I try, but it’s not the same as a teacher, because I’m a farmer,” said Agustín. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Child Labor

A classroom sits empty at La Ilusion community school, closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, where girls play basketball outside in La Ilusion, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2020. Amid the new coronavirus pandemic, Mexican education officials recently said that enrollment for the new school year was down about 10%, but some teachers warn that many students enrolled out of habit, but aren't participating. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Child Labor

Mauri, 11, left, and Cesar, 13, work at a clay brick factory in Tobati, Paraguay, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. The boys have been working at the factory, run by Mauri's family, since before schools stopped operating in March amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Child Labor

Cristian, center, turns clay bricks on their sides as they sun dry before they are put in a kiln at a small brick factory in Tobati, Paraguay, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. While the government prohibits minors under 14 from working at brick factories, the 11-year-old said he's been working here to compliment his family's income, even before COVID-19 pandemic closed schools. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Child Labor

Ronnie, 10, wearing a mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, poses for a portrait as he works alongside his father at a small brick factory in Tobati, Paraguay, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. Members of brickmaking families said school closures, scheduled to last at least until December, have led to many children and adolescents working longer hours, making it difficult to complete their virtual schoolwork. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Child Labor

Children work with their relatives to load a kiln with clay bricks in Tobati, Paraguay, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. In many of the small Tobati brick factories, locals begin to work at an early age to complement their family's income. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Child Labor

Wearing masks to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the Delgado family poses for a photo in their carpentry workshop in El Alto, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. After the government canceled the school year, the five children between ages 6 and 14 work in the carpentry workshop with their parents. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Child Labor

Mariana Delgado does schoolwork at her family's carpentry workshop in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. “For the students the closure of the school year is a catastrophe. They’re not going to make up the time and I strive for them to be more than carpenters,” said the six-year-old's father, Hector Delgado. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Child Labor

Three of the Delgado children, from right, Yuri, 11, Wendi, 9, and Alison, 8, make a drawer in the family carpentry workshop in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. In a country where informal employment makes up 70% of the economy, the closure of schools because of the new coronavirus pandemic puts more kids like the Delgados to work. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Child Labor

Teddy Bears covered in sawdust sit nex to tools at a family-run carpentry workshop in El Alto, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. In Bolivia, the government decided to cancel the school year in August because it said there was no way to provide an equitable education to the country's nearly 3 million students. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

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Sports Photography Single Image | Ashley Landis

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Game 1

Mike Kim, left, and Jacob Zelaya cheer in their vehicle outside Dodger Stadium and watch the television broadcast of Game 1 of the 2020 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays in Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, in Los Angeles. Due to the spread of COVID-19, all of the 2020 World Series games will be played in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

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Sports Photography Story | Christophe Ena, Alessandra Tarantino and Michel Euler

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French Open Tennis

View of the empty seats in center court Philippe Chatrier as Belgium's David Goffin plays against Italy's Jannik Sinner in the first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French Open Tennis

A lone spectator watches Sofia Kenin of the U.S. and Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020.(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French Open Tennis

Spectators watch Austria's Dominic Thiem and Croatia's Marin Cilic play their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament in center court Philippe Chatrier at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

French Open Tennis

Ball girls and boys exercise before relaying others on second round matches of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French Open Tennis

Spain's Rafael Nadal react as he plays against Argentina's Diego Schwartzman in the semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French Open Tennis

Russia's Alina Charaeva plays a shot in her third round junior girls match again Italy's Matilde Paoletti of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French Open Tennis

Cori Gauff of the U.S. serves against Italy's Martina Trevisan in the second round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

French Open Tennis

Serbia's Novak Djokovic serves against Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis in the second round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

French Open Tennis

Spain's Rafael Nadal prepares to serve against Italy's Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

French Open Tennis

Romania's Simona Halep plays a shot against Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. in the third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French Open Tennis

Spain's Rafael Nadal holds the trophy as he celebrates winning the final match of the French Open tennis tournament against Serbia's Novak Djokovic in three sets, 6-0, 6-2, 7-5, at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French Open Tennis

Poland's Iga Swiatek kisses the trophy after winning the final match of the French Open tennis tournament against Sofia Kenin of the U.S. in two sets 6-4, 6-1, at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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