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

The winners for the August 2022 AP Photo Contest are Mukhtar Khan for News Photography Single Image, for his photo of Indian policemen detaining a Kashmiri Shiite Muslim for participating in a religious procession during restrictions in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir.

Ben Curtis for News Photography Story, for his coverage of the presidential election in Kenya.

David Goldman for Feature Photography Single Image, for his photo of a young girl holding her dog while waving goodbye to her grandparents from an evacuation train departing Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine.

David Goldman for Feature Photography Story, for his coverage of daily life in war-torn Ukraine.

Pavel Golovkin for Sports Photography Single Image, for his photo of England's Courtney Tulloch performing during the Men's All-Around Final at the European Gymnastics Championships in Munich, Germany.

Aaron Favila for Sports Photography Story, for his coverage of the Asian Volleyball Confederation Cup for Women at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig, Philippines.

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

News Photography Single Image | Mukhtar Khan

India Kashmir

Indian policemen detain a Kashmiri Shiite Muslim for participating in a religious procession during restrictions in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

News Photography Story | Ben Curtis

Kenya Election

Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate William Ruto rest at his final electoral campaign rally at Nyayo stadium in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Kenya is due to hold its general election on Tuesday, Aug. 9 as the East Africa's economic hub chooses a successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

Maasai wait in line to cast their votes in the general election at a polling station in Esonorua Primary School, in Kajiado County, Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Polls opened Tuesday in Kenya's unusual presidential election, where a longtime opposition leader who is backed by the outgoing president faces the deputy president who styles himself as the outsider. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

A policeman guards ballot boxes and election materials as they sit ready to be distributed to polling stations, at a counting center in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Kenya is voting Tuesday in an election that will bring East Africa’s economic hub a new president after a decade. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

Maasai waiting in line to cast their votes look through an open window at electoral officials inside a polling station at Niserian Primary School, in Kajiado County, Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Polls opened Tuesday in Kenya's unusual presidential election, where a longtime opposition leader who is backed by the outgoing president faces the deputy president who styles himself as the outsider. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

An electoral worker offloads ballot boxes from a minibus transporting electoral workers to a collection and tallying center in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Kenyans are waiting for the results of a close but calm presidential election in which the turnout was lower than usual. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

People peer through the window as an election official holds up ballot papers and starts to count votes, at a polling station in Olepolos Primary School, in Kajiado County, Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Polls opened Tuesday in Kenya's unusual presidential election, where a longtime opposition leader who is backed by the outgoing president faces the deputy president who styles himself as the outsider. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

A man watches electoral news on a television in an electronics repair shop in the Kibera area of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Kenyans are waiting for the results of a close presidential election in which the turnout was lower than usual. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

A supporter of presidential candidate Raila Odinga performs wheelies with his motorcycle past others as they cheer and dance and hope for a win for their candidate, despite no official announcement of election results, outside Odinga’s campaign headquarters in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Kenyans are waiting for the results of a close presidential election in which the turnout was lower than usual. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

Kenyans dance, sing and clap during a service at the Finished Work at Calvary Church, in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. Kenyans attended regular church services on Sunday, at which many pastors preached a message of patience and peace, as the country continues to wait for the results of Tuesday’s presidential election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

Shouting "No Raila No Peace," Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga supporters burn tires in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga, a triumph for the man who shook up politics by appealing to struggling Kenyans on economic terms and not on traditional ethnic ones. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

Supporters of presidential candidate Raila Odinga gather outside the Supreme Court, one holding a sign in Swahili reading “Democracy Now”, in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Odinga filed a Supreme Court challenge to last week's election result, asserting that the process was marked by criminal subversion and seeking that the outcome be nullified and a new vote be ordered. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya Election

A supporter of presidential candidate Raila Odinga stands next to a roadblock of burning tires in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. After last-minute chaos that could foreshadow a court challenge, Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Feature Photography Single Image | David Goldman

Russia Ukraine War

A young girl holds her dog while waving goodbye to her grandparents from an evacuation train departing Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, for a safer part of the country to the west. The government issued an order to residents to leave the Donetsk region in the face of the Russian offensive as they???re preparing for fall and winter and fear that many there may not have access to heating, electricity, or even clean water. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Feature Photography Story | David Goldman

Russia Ukraine War

A passenger looks out of a city bus window during a rain shower in Dnipro, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

A bolt of lightning streaks from the sky during a rain storm near Petropavlivs???ka, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

A pedestrian walks their dog wearing an illuminated collar through the city center, where many residents have evacuated from, in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, before a nightly curfew Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

An armored personnel carrier is transported past a sunflower field toward the frontline in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

Archpriest Oleksandr Kondratyuk, right, blesses congregants with holy water outside St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate for Savior of the Honey Feast Day in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

A woman crosses train tracks to get to a residential area of town in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

Children in traditional Ukrainian clothing run through a field after recording an online video message for the country???s upcoming Independence Day on Aug. 24 at a community center in Andriivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

A woman kisses a child as other kids are seen through a cutout playing in a park in Dnipro, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

A bicyclist pedals with a dog through a street lined with barricades in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

A vendor sells blue and yellow balloons in honor of the country???s National Flag Day, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, at Maidan Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. Kyiv authorities have banned mass gatherings in the capital through Thursday for fear of Russian missile attacks. Independence Day, like the six-month mark in the war, falls on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

A woman holds the flag of Ukraine while looking into one of the destroyed Russian military vehicles on display on the country???s National Flag Day, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Kyiv authorities have banned mass gatherings in the capital through Thursday for fear of Russian missile attacks. Independence Day, like the six-month mark in the war, falls on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Russia Ukraine War

A passenger gazes out a window after boarding a night train heading west to Lviv, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, from Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Sports Photography Single Image | Pavel Golovkin

Germany European Championships Gymnastics

England's Courtney Tulloch performs during the Men's All-Around Final at the European Gymnastics Championships in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)