AP monthly staff photo contest
Each month The Associated Press honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment.
The winners for the July 2020 AP Photo Contest are Petros Giannakouris for News Photography Single Image, for his photo of fire aftermath in Greece. Rodrigo Abd for News Photography Story, for his series on Coronavirus coverage in Peru.
Rajanish Kakade for Feature Photography Single Image, for his photo of a watch repairman working during the coronavirus pandemic in India.
Moises Castillo for Feature Photography Story, for his series on a teacher who travels door to door to teach students during the coronavirus pandemic in Guatemala.
Gregory Bull for Sports Photography Single Image, for his image of San Diego Padres pitcher MacKenzie Gore throwing during baseball training at Petco Park in San Diego.
Alex Brandon for Sports Photography Story, for his coverage of Washington Nationals opening day game against the New York Yankees at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month’s winning images, judged by Bertrand Combaldieu, are featured below.
News Photography Single Image | Petros Giannakouris
A burned out house at the village of Galataki, near Corinth, 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Athens, on Thursday July 23, 2020. Firefighters and water-dropping aircraft were fighting for a second day Thursday to contain a large wildfire in southern Greece that forced evacuations and a night-long battle to save homes. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
News Photography Story | Rodrigo Abd
Consecrated layman Ronald Marin, 30, from Venezuela, walks among niches inside the cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, outskirts from Lima, Peru, Saturday, July 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Tatiana Palomo,15, is comforted by her grandmother Aurora Davila, during the burial of her father Ronald Palomo, 35, who died due to the COVID-19, inside the cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, outskirts from Lima, Peru, Monday, July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Walter Gomez says goodby while touching the coffin of his brother Gustavo Gomez, 58, who died of COVID-19, during his burial in cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, outskirts from Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to classify just over 27,000 deaths as caused by the novel coronavirus, a figure that could more than double the country’s official death toll from the disease. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Relatives hug Aurora Davila, mother of Ronald Palomo, 35, who died due to the COVID-19, during his burial in cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, outskirts from Lima, Peru, Monday, July 6, 2020. Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to classify just over 27,000 deaths as caused by the novel coronavirus, a figure that could more than double the country’s official death toll from the disease. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Consecrated layman Ronald Marin, 30, center, from Venezuela, talks to Ines Rodriguez and Elisa Sabogal, aunts of Arturo Sotelo, who died at 62 due to the COVID-19, while cemetery workers cover his coffin with earth in “Martires 19 de Julio” cemetery, in Comas, outskirts from Lima, Peru, Saturday, July 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Gladys Ramos sits next to the tomb of his uncle Saturnino Zumia, who died of COVID-19, during his burial in cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to classify just over 27,000 deaths as caused by the novel coronavirus, a figure that could more than double the country’s official death toll from the disease. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A relative rests over the coffin of Juan Tito Ramos, 87,, who died of COVID-19, during his burial in cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to classify just over 27,000 deaths as caused by the novel coronavirus, a figure that could more than double the country’s official death toll from the disease. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Consecrated layman Ronald Marin, 30, center, from Venezuela, talks to Ines Rodriguez, left, and Elisa Sabogal, right, aunts of Arturo Sotelo, who died at 62 due to the COVID-19, while cemetery workers cover his coffin with earth in “Martires 19 de Julio” cemetery, in Comas, outskirts from Lima, Peru, Saturday, July 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Alberto Alonso, 13, comforts his mother Candelaria Salvador, 55, who cries over the coffin of his husband Joaquin Alonso, 58, who died due to the COVID-19, during his burial in cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, July 28, 2020. Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to classify just over 27,000 deaths as caused by the novel coronavirus, a figure that could more than double the country’s official death toll from the disease. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
People play football in a court next to cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Monday, July 6, 2020. Peruvian authorities and the Pan American Health Organization are investigating whether the country failed to classify just over 27,000 deaths as caused by the novel coronavirus, a figure that could more than double the country’s official death toll from the disease. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Consecrated layman Ronald Marin, 30, from Venezuela, walks among niches inside the cemetery “Martires 19 de Julio”, in Comas, outskirts from Lima, Peru, Saturday, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Consecrated layman Ronald Marin, 30, center, from Venezuela, center, prays over the coffin of the 7 months old daughter of Keizer Quinones, 24, right, and Sarai Araujo, 19, also from Venezuela, during her burial in “Martires 19 de Julio” cemetery, in Comas, outskirts from Lima, Peru, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Feature Photography Single Image | Rajanish Kakade
A watch repairman covers his face with a handkerchief as a precaution against coronavirus and talks to his customer in Mumbai, India, Friday, July. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajanish kakade)
Feature Photography Story | Moises Castillo
Standing just inside the doorway of his home in a black button down shirt tucked into navy blue trousers, 11-year-old Oscar Rojas greets his teacher Gerardo Ixcoy, known universally as "Lalito 10", in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. "Teacher Lalito only comes for a little while to teach me, but I learn a lot." (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Gerardo Ixcoy teaches 12-year-old student Paola Ximena Conoz about fractions from his mobile classroom, parked just outside the door to her home in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Each day the 27-year-old sets out pedaling among the cornfields of Santa Cruz del Quiche to give individual instruction to his sixth-grade students. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Teacher Gerardo Ixcoy sits parked just outside the doorway of a student's home, inside his secondhand adult tricycle he converted into a mobile classroom, in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Ixcoy has installed protective plastic sheets to protect against the new coronavirus transmission, a whiteboard and a small solar panel that powers an audio player he uses for some lessons. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Eleven-year-old Oscar Rojas listens to his teacher Gerardo Ixcoy, parked in a classroom-on-a-trike just outside Oscar's home in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. The pandemic has really altered Oscar's routine, "because now I'm not receiving normal classes," he said. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Oscar Rojas, 11, readies his notebooks, pens and pencils, as he prepares for the arrival of his teacher Gerardo Ixcoy, in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. "I tried to get the kids their work sheets sending instructions via WhatsApp, but they didn't respond," said the 27-year-old teacher. "The parents told me that didn't have money to buy data packages (for their phones) and others couldn't help their children understand the instructions." (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Teacher Gerardo Ixcoy, wearing a protective face mask, found a way to give individual instruction to his sixth-grade students amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Ixcoy, known universally as "Lalito 10", quickly realized there were challenges to remote learning in this farming community in Guatemala's western highlands and invested his savings in an adult tricycle and converted it into a mobile classroom. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Teacher Gerardo Ixcoy conducts a math class from a secondhand, adult tricycle that he converted into a mobile classroom, in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The 27-year-old teacher deploys a sponge mop to serve as a safe distance reminder between him and his students. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Standing behind the plexiglass window of his mobile classroom, Gerardo Ixcoy holds a pizza box as part of a lesson on fractions, in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. "I tried to get the kids their work sheets sending instructions via WhatsApp, but they didn't respond," Ixcoy said. "The parents told me that didn't have money to buy data packages (for their phones) and others couldn't help their children understand the instructions." (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Teacher Gerardo Ixcoy pedals his adult tricycle converted into a mobile classroom past cornfields, in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. When the novel coronavirus closed Guatemala's schools in mid-March, the 27-year-old invested his savings in the classroom-on-a-trike in order to give individual instruction to his sixth-grade students. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Teacher Gerardo Ixcoy and his three-year-old son Dylan greet a neighbor as Ixcoy arrives home after a day of giving individual instruction to his sixth-grade students, in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. By afternoon Ixcoy pedals his classroom-on-a-trike for home to beat a mandatory curfew set in place to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Teacher Gerardo Ixcoy and his wife Yessika Lopez prepare to have lunch in their home in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. "One day the mother of a student told me they didn't have food," Ixcoy said. "When class ended and I began to ride away on my tricycle she calls me and with a look of gratefulness says, 'Teacher, they gave me some food, I want to share half with you.'" (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Sports Photography Single Image | Gregory Bull
San Diego Padres pitcher MacKenzie Gore throws during baseball training at Petco Park, Thursday, July 16, 2020, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Sports Photography Story | Alex Brandon
The New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals stand on the field before their opening day baseball game with no fans in the seats at Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez (4) and shortstop Trea Turner (7) kneel and hold a piece of black fabric before an opening day baseball game against the New York Yankees at Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Members of Washington Nationals kneel and hold a piece of black fabric before an opening day baseball game against the New York Yankees at Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, throws out a ceremonial first pitch before an opening day baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Yankees at Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
New York Yankees??? Giancarlo Stanton (27) jumps to celebrate his two-run homer with Aaron Judge during the first inning of an opening day baseball game against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Fans watch an opening day baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Yankees at Nationals Park from their balcony across the street, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole pauses and looks down at the ???Black Lives Matter,??? stenciled on the pitchers mound during the fourth inning of an opening day baseball game at Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, center, smiles as he watches an opening day baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Yankees at Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A bolt of lightening comes down from the clouds during the sixth inning of an opening day baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Yankeesat Nationals Park, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. Play was later halting in the sixth inning. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)