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

The winners for the August 2020 AP Photo Contest are Hassan Ammar for News Photography Single Image, for his photo a wounded woman being evacuated after a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. Morry Gash and David Goldman for News Photography Story, for their combined coverage of protests in Wisconsin following the police shooting of a black man in Kenosha.

Robert F. Bukaty for Feature Photography Single Image, for his photo of Marley Wentworth, of Newfield, Maine, surfacing through bubbles after jumping into the Mousam River at Indian’s Last Leap, a popular swimming hole in Springvale, Maine.

Altaf Qadri for Feature Photography Story, for his long term, in-depth series on the Ganges waterway in India.

Mark J. Terrill for Sports Photography Single Image, for his image of Los Angeles Dodgers' Chris Taylor colliding with San Diego Padres catcher Austin Hedges during the second inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles..

Oded Balilty for Sports Photography Story, for his coverage of the National Amateur Body Builders Association competition in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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

News Photography Single Image | Hassan Ammar

Lebanon Explosion

A wounded woman is evacuated after a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

News Photography Story | Morry Gash & David Goldman

Police Shooting Wisconsin

Protesters link arms in front of a police line outside the Kenosha County courthouse Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has summoned the National Guard to head off another round of violent protests after the police shooting of a Black man turned Kenosha into the nation's latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

Police try to secure the public safety building from protesters Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis.Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has summoned the National Guard to head off another round of violent protests after the police shooting of a Black man under murky circumstances turned Kenosha into the nation???s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

A protester shouts at police in riot gear during clashes outside the Kenosha County Courthouse late Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Protests continue following the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

Protestors take cover from tear gas fired by police outside the Kenosha County Courthouse, late Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Protesters converged on the county courthouse during a second night of clashes after the police shooting of Jacob Blake a day earlier turned Kenosha into the nation???s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

A protester takes cover during clashes outside the Kenosha County Courthouse late Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Protests continue following the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

A protester launches a projectile toward police during clashes outside the Kenosha County Courthouse late Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Protests continue following the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

An explosive device detonates as a protester pushes back on an armored vehicle clearing the park of demonstrators during clashes outside the Kenosha County Courthouse late Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Protests have erupted following the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

Police stand near a garbage truck ablaze during protests, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis., sparked by the shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha Police officer a day earlier. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

A flag flies over a department of corrections building ablaze during protests, late Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis., sparked by the shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha Police officer a day earlier. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

Burned out vehicles are seen Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Many of the cars were set on fire during protests in the city Sunday night following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

A person, front right, is consoled Wednesday night, Aug. 26, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis., as she talks about one of the two people who were fatally shot Tuesday night, whom she described as the ???love of her life,??? near the scene of Tuesday's shooting. A white, 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree homicide in Tuesday's shootings. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Police Shooting Wisconsin

A protester places a bottle at the scene where someone was killed protesting last night the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Feature Photography Single Image | Robert F. Bukaty

Daily Life in Maine

Marley Wentworth, of Newfield, Maine, surfaces through bubbles after jumping into the Mousam River at Indian’s Last Leap, a popular swimming hole in Springvale, Maine, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. Hot weather continues to be the trend as temperatures are expected to reach into the 90s through Thursday. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Feature Photography Story | Altaf Qadri

The Ganges

Chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution is seen flowing towards a figurine stuck in the shallow waters of Yamuna river in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2019. Despite the river being accorded the status of a living human entity by an Indian court, untreated sewage and industrial pollutants have turned it into one of the most polluted rivers in the world. The river Yamuna is one of the major tributaries of the Ganges. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

Indian Hindu devotees prepare to immerse an idol of goddess Durga in the river Hooghly, a distributary of the river Ganges, in Kolkata in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Hundreds of thousands of idols are immersed into the Ganges and other rivers across the country on Durga Puja festival, causing serious concerns of environmental pollution. The Hooghly is also known as the Ganga river by locals. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

Funeral pyres burn at Manikarnika Ghat, one of the oldest and most sacred place for Hindus to be cremated, on the banks of river Ganges in Varanasi, India, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. For millions of Hindus, Varanasi is a place of pilgrimage and anyone who dies in the city or is cremated on its ghats is believed to attain salvation and freed from the cycle of birth and death. Tens of thousands of corpses are cremated in the city each year, leaving half-burnt flesh, dead bodies and ash floating in the Ganges. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

Hindu women walk on silt, deposited by monsoon floods, along the banks of the river Ganges to perform daily morning rituals in Varanasi, one of the Hinduism's holiest cities, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. For millions of Hindus, Varanasi is a place of pilgrimage and anyone who dies in the city or is cremated on its ghats is believed to attain salvation and freed from the cycle of birth and death. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

Hindu pilgrims arrive to takes holy dips before sunrise during Makar Sankranti festival on Sagar Island, an island in the Ganges delta, India, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Sagar and many other small islands which are part of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, have seen a dramatic rise in sea levels due to climate change. The highest point in the Sundarbans is around 3 meters (9.8 feet) and the mean elevation is less than a meter above sea level. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

Devotees take ritualistic dips alongside elephants at the confluence of river Ganges and river Gandak to mark the beginning of the centuries old Sonpur mela, the largest cattle fair in Asia, in the Indian state of Bihar, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Sonpur was once a place along the Ganges where powerful beasts like elephants were traded in large numbers. The number of elephants seen at the fair reduced drastically after a ban on their sale citing the Wildlife Protection Act. Only a handful are now brought by the administration to the festival in order to keep the Hindu tradition alive and also to add value to the fair as a tourist attraction. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

The Milky Way glows above the 6856 meters tall Bhagirathi peaks as seen from Tapovan, at an altitude of 4500 meters in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, Friday, May 10, 2019. Bhagirathi peaks feed the Gangotri Glacier, one of the origins of the river Ganges, whose glacial melt water has ensured the arid plains get enough water, even during the driest months. For more than 1,700 miles, from the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges flows across the plains like a timeline of India???s past, nourishing an extraordinary wealth of life. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

Hindu pilgrims spend the night huddled together after being forced by high tide to flee from their camps on the eve of Makar Sankranti festival on Sagar Island, an island in the Ganges delta, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. Sagar and many other small islands which are part of the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, have seen a dramatic rise in sea levels due to climate change. The highest point in the Sundarbans is around 3 meters (9.8 feet) and the mean elevation is less than a meter above sea level. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

Indian Hindu pilgrims walk on a pontoon bridge before dawn at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati during Magh Mela, a festival that attracts millions of pilgrims every year, in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. In the run-up to the bathing festivals, extra water is released upstream and tanneries are temporarily closed to temporarily clean up the waters of the Ganges. But pollution officials say that it is unsafe to bathe in the Ganges anywhere near Prayagraj. To Hindus, however, the river remains pure in a religious sense. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

People walk past the body of a Hindu woman placed on a bed in the middle of a street, waiting to be cremated at the submerged Harishchandra Ghat on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, one of the Hinduism's holiest cities, India, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. As the mighty Ganges River overflows following heavy monsoon rains, large parts of the Hindu holy town of Varanasi were submerged by floodwaters, forcing thousands of cremations to happen on rooftops and narrow alleyways. For millions of Hindus, Varanasi is a place of pilgrimage and anyone who dies in the city or is cremated on its ghats is believed to attain salvation and freed from the cycle of birth and death. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

An Indian Hindu family walks on the shallow banks of the Yamuna river, covered with chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution, during Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. Despite the river being accorded the status of a living human entity by an Indian court, untreated sewage and industrial pollutants have turned it into one of the most polluted rivers in the world. The river Yamuna is one of the major tributaries of the Ganges. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Ganges

An elderly Hindu woman sits in solitude inside an ashram meant for those who have come to die and attain salvation in Varanasi, one of Hinduism's holiest cities on the banks of river Ganges, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. For millions of Hindus, Varanasi is a place of pilgrimage and anyone who dies in the city or is cremated on its ghats is believed to attain salvation and freed from the cycle of birth and death. This has, for ages, motivated devout Hindus to make the pilgrimage here in their final days. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Sports Photography Single Image | Mark J. Terrill

Padres Dodgers Baseball

Los Angeles Dodgers' Chris Taylor, center, collides with San Diego Padres catcher Austin Hedges, right, as he is tagged out while trying to score on a double by KikÈ Hern·ndez while home plate umpire Jim Reynolds watches during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)