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

The winners for the May 2020 AP Photo Contest are Julio Cortez for News Photography Single Image, for his photo of a protester during a George Floyd protest in Minneapolis. Rodrigo Abd for News Photography Story, for his series on dealing with the coronavirus outbreak in Peru.

Petros Giannakouris for Feature Photography Single Image, for his photo of men speaking in Athens, Greece while practicing social distancing.

Maya Alleruzzo for Feature Photography Story, for her look at the ancient Yazidi sect rebuilding, nearly six years after Islamic State militants launched its coordinated attack on the heartland of the Yazidi community at the foot of Sinjar Mountain in August 2014.

Dar Yasin for Sports Photography Story, for his series on Kashmiri Athletes.

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

News Photography Single Image | Julio Cortez

Carrying The Flag

A protester carries the carries a U.S. flag upside, a sign of distress, next to a burning building Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis for a third straight night. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

News Photography Story | Rodrigo Abd

Outbreak in Peru

n this May 8, 2020 photo, Piedrangel funeral home workers Luis Zerpa, Luis Brito, center, and Jhoan Faneite, right, from Venezuela, carry the corpse to the hearse of Marcos Espinoza, 51, who died due to Coronavirus in Pachacamac, outskirts from Lima, Peru. Marcos, single and childless, was a humble electrician, who had changed his trade less than a decade ago after working 25 years as a private security guard. Oscar Espinoza, 50, and Marcos' only brother, said that hours before he died Marcos lamented that the plague had reached him. "Why did this plague get me, if I didn't hurt anyone," heard Oscar, who slept in the next room. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this May 9, 2020 photo, Palmira Cortez, 65, mourns while looking at funeral home works carrying the corpse of her husband Walter YarlequÈ, 79, who died allegedly from COVID-19, un Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this May 8, 2020 photo, flowers covered with cement and lime pose on the grave of TV camera man Mario Bucana, who died due to COVID-19 in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this May 4, 2020 photo, Ricardo Noriega, 77, lies on the floor of his living room after dying with great difficulty in breathing one of the most characteristic symptoms of COVID-19, in Lima, Peru. Noriega waited for death sitting in an armchair in the living room after he did not find a taxi to take him to the hospital during the early morning of May 4. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this May 9, 2020 photo, Piedrangel funeral home workers Angelo Aza, 20, (behind), from Peru, and Luis Zerpa, 21, from Venezuela, play games in their cell phones before removing bodies in a hospital that died from the Coronavirus. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this photo from May 5, 2020, Luis Zerpa, 21, prepares to collect the corpse of Faustino Lopez, 68, who committed suicide inside his home in Lima, Peru. Faustino Lopez's son, Jorge Lopez, told The Associated Press that his father committed suicide "because of stress" and that Faustino was afraid of having COVID-19 because he was coughing and had a headache. Hours after his father committed suicide, health workers took blood samples from one of the fingers on his left hand and confirmed that Faustino had COVID-19.

In this May 4, 2020 photo, funeral workers Jhoan Faneite, Luis Brito, 28, from Venezuela, removes the body of Carlos Estrada, 85, a retired carpenter who suffered from Parkinson's disease and who died at his home in Chorrillos, after presenting breathing difficulties, headaches and diarrhea, the main symptoms of COVID -19.Luis Brito, 28, from Venezuela, COVID-19. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this May 15, 2020 photo, Rosa Rodriguez poses for the picture holding the marble casket urn with the ashes of her husband Fernando Zapata Rojas, 60, a doctor who dies allegedly from Coronavirus outskirts from Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

n this May 8, 2020 photo, a neighbor holds his dog that barks to Piedrangel funeral home workers who walk towards the house of Marcos Espinoza, 51, who died due to Coronavirus in Pachacamac, outskirts from Lima, Peru. Marcos, single and childless, was a humble electrician, who had changed his trade less than a decade ago after working 25 years as a private security guard. Oscar Espinoza, 50, and Marcos' only brother, said that hours before he died Marcos lamented that the plague had reached him. "Why did this plague get me, if I didn't hurt anyone," heard Oscar, who slept in the next room. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this May 13, 2020 photo, a blanket moistened with sodium hypochlorite covers the face of who lies on her bed hours after dying from COVID-19 in a poor neiborhood in Lima, Peru, minutes before funeral home workers carry the corpse to the crematory. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this May 15, 2020 photo, workers enter the corpse of an allegedly victim of Coronavirus inside a truck container used as an improvised morgue inside Hipolito Unanue public hospital in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this May 14, 2020 photo, funeral worker Alexander Carballo, 40, from Venezuela, enters a house of an allegedly victim of Coronavirus to pick up the corpse and carry it to the crematory, in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Feature Photography Single Image | Petros Giannakouris

Social Distancing

Two men sitting on different benches speaks as they keep social distance at a seaside of Glyfada suburb , near Athens, on Friday, May 15, 2020. Greece has so far managed to contain its outbreak at low levels of deaths and critically ill people, and authorities have been anxious to sustain this as they gradually lift lockdown measures, a process which began nearly two weeks ago (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Feature Photography Story | Maya Alleruzzo

Islamic State Yazidi Slaves Justice

In this Sept. 9, 2019, photo, Yazidi Layla Taloo poses for a portrait in the full-face veil and abaya she wore while enslaved by Islamic State militants, at her home in Sharia, Iraq. Taloo’s 2 1/2-year ordeal in captivity underscores how IS members continually ignored the rules the group tried to impose on the slave system. “They explained everything as permissible. They called it Islamic law. They raped women, even young girls,” said Taloo, who was owned by eight men. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 photo, Leila Shamo displays tattoos she made while enslaved by Islamic State militants at her home near Khanke Camp, near Dohuk, Iraq. Shamo, 34, has used her breast milk, charcoal ash and a needle to write the names of her husband, and two sons on the front of her hand and the inside of her right forearm: Kero, Aadnan, Aatman. On the inside of her left forearm, she wrote the date IS militants captured them all together: 8-8-2014. The mother of five tattooed their names and her date of capture on her skin to spite her captors and to never forget.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Nov. 15, 2019, photo, a Yazidi woman who endured five years of captivity by Islamic State militants poses for a portrait in her home in northern Iraq. “They beat me and sold me and did everything to me,” she says. Raped by nearly a dozen owners over years of captivity, she was owned by IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for months before he “gifted” her to one of his aides and freed in a U.S.-led raid in May, 2019 after her escape. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Sept. 12, 2019, photo, pictures of Yazidis slain in 2014 by Islamic State militants are found in a small room at the Lalish shrine in northern Iraq. When Yazidis were seized alive by the militants, top commanders registered them, photographed the women and children, categorized them into married, unmarried and girls, and decided where they would be sent. Initially, the thousands of captured women and children were handed out as gifts to fighters who took part in the Sinjar offensive, in line with the group’s policy on the “spoils of war.” (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Aug. 30, 2019, photo, Layla Taloo visits the Ninewa Palace Hotel, where she was once brought by her Islamic State militant captor in Mosul, Iraq. She was abducted by the extremists along with her husband and children — but once her husband was taken away, Taloo was sold to an Iraqi doctor, who three days later gifted her to a friend. Despite the rules mandating sales through courts, she was thrown into a world of informal slave markets run out of homes. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Aug. 31, 2019, photo, Layla Taloo reacts as she visits a room in the house where she was held along with her husband and children after Islamic State militants captured the family in Tal Afar, Iraq in 2014. It was the last place she saw her husband. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Aug. 31, 2019 photo, Layla Taloo is overcome with grief as her brother, Khalid, leads her away from the compound where she last saw her husband in 2014 after the family was captured by Islamic State militants in Tal Afar, Iraq. Her family was taken to a village with nearly 2,000 other Yazidis forced to convert to Islam, before the men were taken away. Their bodies were never found, but they are believed to have been thrown into a nearby sinkhole. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Aug. 31, 2019 photo, Layla Taloo directs security forces digging in the garden where she buried her mobile phone and cigarettes while being held by Islamic State militants in Tal Afar, Iraq in 2014. She was abducted by the extremists along with her husband and children — but once her husband was taken away, Taloo was sold to an Iraqi doctor, who three days later gifted her to a friend. Despite the rules mandating sales through courts, she was thrown into a world of informal slave markets run out of homes. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Sept. 13, 2019, photo, Layla Taloo visits the grave of a Yazidi woman who took her own life after she was captured by Islamic State militants in Mosul, buried on a hill overlooking the Lalish shrine in northern Iraq. Some 3,500 slaves have been freed from IS’ clutches in recent years, most of them ransomed by their families. But more than 2,900 Yazidis remain unaccounted for, including some 1,300 women and children, according to the Yazidi abductees office in Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Sept. 4, 2019, photo, Abdul-Rahman al-Shmary, a 24-year old Saudi Islamic State member who traded in Yazidi slaves and has been in a Syrian Kurdish-run prison since 2017, is led by guards to an interview in Rmeilan, northeast Syria. He dismissed the IS rules on slavery as rooted not in Islamic law but in the leadership’s need for control.“It was about power and not for God’s sake,” he said. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Sept. 14, 2019, photo, Yazidi youth, dressed in traditional clothes, take part in a program to reacquaint them with their religion and culture at Khanke IDP Camp, northern Iraq. The ancient sect is rebuilding, nearly six years after Islamic State militants launched its coordinated attack on the heartland of the Yazidi community at the foot of Sinjar Mountain in August 2014. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In this Aug. 23, 2019, photo, a baby girl is water from an ancient spring by a Yazidi holy woman at the the Lalish temple near Sheikhan, Iraq. The ancient sect is rebuilding, nearly six years after Islamic State militants launched its coordinated attack on the heartland of the Yazidi community at the foot of Sinjar Mountain in August 2014. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Sports Photography Story | Dar Yasin

Kashmir Athletes

Kashmiri wushu artist Aliza Shah, left, practices along with her sister Kaifa Shah inside their home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 19, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted the sisters to their home. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new and the ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic is not the first time athletes have had to practice their sport at home. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri boxer Eyed Akeel Khan practices inside his house in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 23, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted Khan to his home. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new and the ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic is not the first time he has had to practice his sport at home. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Boxing gloves of Eyed Akeel Khan lie on the floor of the room where he practices in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 23, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted Khan to his home. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new and the ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic is not the first time he has had to practice his sport at home. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri football coach Qudsiya Altaf, right, and her sister Kabra Altaf, a judo champion, practice inside a school compound that belongs to their father, near their home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 20, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted the sisters to their neighborhood. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri Taekwondoin Afreen Hyder practices in her apartment's corridor in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 19, 2020. The 20-year-old martial arts player shares a two-bedroom apartment with her parents in the region’s main city of Srinagar. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new and the ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic is not the first time she has had to practice her sport at home. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri kayaker Vilayat Hussain practices on a rugged under-construction wooden ergometer at his home on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 24, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted Hussain to his home. He says going out for practice with others is too high a risk but his priority remains to keep fit. So, he made the wooden Ergometer which still doesn’t have cable and weights to properly work on. “It helps me to maintain my workouts even though it is far from what it should look like,” Hussain says. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Weightlifter Bashir Ahmed practices at his home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 21, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted Ahmed to his home. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Weights lie next to a makeshift bench of tin boxes and wooden plank covered with thermocol inside the room of weightlifter Bashir Ahmed in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 21, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted Ahmed to his home. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Kashmiri football coach Qudsiya Altaf poses for a photograph during practice inside a school compound that belongs to her father, near her home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 20, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted Altaf to her neighborhood. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

An ultra-marathon runner Hamid Aziz practices on the roof of an abandoned community hall outside his house in Srinagar Indian controlled Kashmir, April 21, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted Aziz to his home. “By staying home, we can win this fight against the unknown opponent before facing a known oppon

Boxing gloves of Eyed Akeel Khan lie on the floor of the room where he practices in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 23, 2020. Like many other athletes, the coronavirus pandemic has restricted Khan to his home. But lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new and the ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic is not the first time he has had to practice his sport at home. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Umer Nabi cycles on top of rollers inside his home in Burzahamahe, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 28, 2020. Lockdown for the 7 million residents of Kashmir is nothing new and the ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic is not the first time athletes have had to practice their sport at home. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)