AP monthly photo contest
Each month The Associated Press honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment.
The winners for the April 2023 AP Photo Contest are Markus Schreiber for News Photography Single Image, for his photo of a police officer using a drill to remove a piece of roadway that a climate activist glued his hand to during a protest against climate change in Berlin, Germany.
Moises Castillo for News Photography Story, for his coverage of the return to Guatemala of 17 migrants who died in a fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Manu Fernandez for Feature Photography Single Image, for his photo of Costaleros taking part during a holy week procession in Priego de Cordoba, southern Spain.
David Goldman for Feature Photography Story, for his series out of Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas documenting a conch population that is fading due to overfishing and the threat overfishing poses around the world to traditional foods.
Andre Penner for Sports Photography Single Image, for his photo of Indigenous athletes competing in a soccer match as part of the Indigenous Games, in the Tapirema community of Peruibe, Brazil.
Matias Delacroix for Sports Photography Story, for his coverage of the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana.
Congratulations to all the photographers for their outstanding work. This month’s winning images judged by Anita Baca are featured below.
News Photography Single Image | Markus Schreiber
A police officer uses a drill to remove a piece of roadway that a climate activist glued his hand to while attempting to bring traffic to a standstill in an effort to pressure the government to take more drastic action against climate change, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
News Photography Story | Moises Castillo
News Story April 2023 - Foreign Ministry officers hold portraits beside the coffins of Guatemalan migrants whose remains arrived at La Aurora Air Force Base in Guatemala City, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. The Mexican Air Force transported the bodies of 17 migrants who died in a fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Relatives react next to the coffins of Guatemalan migrants whose remains arrived at the La Aurora Air Force Base in Guatemala City, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. The Mexican Air Force transported the bodies of 17 migrants who died in a fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
The casket of Miguel Rojche is carried from his home to the cemetery after his wake in Chicacao, Guatemala, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Rojche and his nephew Francisco died in a fire while held at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
The casket of Miguel Rojche is carried from his home to the cemetery after his wake in Chicacao, Guatemala, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Rojche and his nephew Francisco died in a fire while held at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Neighbors attend the wake of Guatemalan migrant Francisco Rojche at his home in Chicacao, Guatemala, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Rojche and his uncle Miguel died in a fire while they were held at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Neighbors and relatives speak about Francisco Rojche during his wake at his home in Chicacao, Guatemala, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Rojche and his uncle Miguel died in a fire while they were held at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A neighbor looks at a T-shirt with a portrait of Guatemalan migrant Francisco Rojche and his nickname "Danci" during Rojche's wake at his home in Chicacao, Guatemala, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Rojche and his uncle Miguel died in a fire while they were held at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Musicians play during the wake of Francisco Rojche at his home in Chicacao, Guatemala, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Rojche and his uncle Miguel died in a fire while they were held at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Relatives react during the burial of Guatemalan migrants Francisco Rojche and Miguel Rojche in Chicacao, Guatemala, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The two men died in a fire while held at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Guatemalan migrants Francisco Rojche and Miguel Rojche are buried in Chicacao, Guatemala, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The two men died in a fire while held at a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Feature Photography Single Image | Manu Fernandez
"Costaleros", who carry over their back the portable dais platform which supports a statue of Jesus Christ of the “Padre Jesus Nazareno” brotherhood take part during the holy week procession in Priego de Cordoba, southern Spain, Friday, April 7, 2023. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Feature Photography Story | David Goldman
Edmond Coverley swims to shore while pulling a raft loaded with conch shells from his crawl, or underwater pen, to sell at a fish market, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, in West End, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. Scientists, international organizations and government officials have sounded the alarm that the conch population is fading due to overfishing, and a food central to Bahamians' diet and identity could cease to be commercially viable in as little as six years. The potential demise of conch reflects the threat overfishing poses around the world to traditional foods. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Tereha Davis tosses a conch shell off to the side as she prepares to launch her boat to go conch fishing off the coast of McLean's Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Five generations of Tereha Davis' family have fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas that teemed with the shellfish for centuries. But in recent years, Davis and conch fishers like her have had to go further and further from shore to find the mollusks. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Henry Carey picks up conch shells while diving for conch off the coast of McLean's Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Few countries are as synonymous with a seafood as the Bahamas are with conch. Queen conch, the key food species, is a marine snail that reaches up to a foot in length and can live for 30 years. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Ricardo Cooper hops on a pen, known as a crawl, to lock the lid after loading his boat with live conch to bring to a fish market Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022, in West End, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. In the Bahamas, the government has explored new conservation measures, such as stricter rules about minimal harvesting size, to reduce fishing pressure and let the conch reproduce. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A fisherman brings a bucket of fresh conch to Sherica Smith, owner of Shabo's, a popular conch stand in West End, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. Smith remembers a time when ???you could walk out there and get conch.??? She motioned to the ocean behind her stand, where conch fishermen now must head to sea in boats to dive for the shellfish. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Tereha Davis, left, and Henry Carey discuss where to look for conch while diving off the coast of McLean's Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. For Davis, the loss of conch means considering the unfathomable, a future without a kind of food that serves as both a cultural symbol and a vital piece of food security for herself and her people. ???When I was a child, we never had to go that far to get conch,??? Davis said. ???Without conch, what are we supposed to do?" (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Sherica Smith, owner of Shabo's, a popular conch stand in West End, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, squeezes lime onto freshly prepared conch salads Friday Dec. 2, 2022. Smith, who also fishes for conch herself, said she thinks the concern over the disappearance of conch if overhyped. Like many members of the fishery, and many residents of the Bahamas, she thinks fishermen will just need to exert more effort to keep up with demand. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Small conch shells serve as pieces of a checker board as a young girl sits on a swing at a restaurant in Pelican Point, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. The shellfish appears prominently at the top of the national coat of arms and conch is widely recognized as the national dish. Symbols of the shellfish are everywhere. Conch shells serve as paperweights, bowls, musical instruments and Christmas ornaments. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A young boy plays by the sea as conch shells line the porch of a restaurant in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. The meat of the conch itself is worth millions per year at the docks, but it's also a key driver of tourism to the islands, in addition to being an important export item to the U.S. and many other countries where conch is a delicacy. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Edmond Coverley pulls up conch shells from his underwater pen to bring to a fish market for sale in West End, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. In the Bahamas, the government has explored new conservation measures, such as stricter rules about minimal harvesting size, to reduce fishing pressure and let the conch reproduce. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Joey Bullard, left, and Garnet Armbrister prepare fresh conch meat to bring to a fish market Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022, in West End, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. The conch are often cracked open with a hammer on the beach soon after they???re harvested, the meat swiftly removed and the shells discarded. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Piles of discarded conch shells flank a boat ramp as fishermen head out to dive for conch in West End, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. The potential demise of conch reflects the threat overfishing poses around the world to traditional foods. Such losses are among the starkest examples of how overfishing has changed people's lives - how they work, what they eat, how they define themselves. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Sports Photography Single Image | Andre Penner
Indigenous athletes compete in a soccer match as part of the Indigenous Games, in the Tapirema community of Peruibe, Brazil, Saturday, April 22, 2023. Hundreds of Indigenous athletes gather this weekend in the south of Sao Paulo state to hold their version of the Olympic Games. They will compete for medals in archery, tug of war, athletics, Indigenous wrestling and other sports. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Sports Photography Story | Matias Delacroix
Cowboys watch competitions during the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A cowboy ropes during the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Cowboys enter the arena during the inauguration of two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Girls watch the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A cowboy rides during the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Cowboys ride into the arena during the inauguration ceremony of the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A bare-footed cowboy rides a bucking horse during the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A cowboy mans a gate during the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Cowboys man the gates during the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Cowboys watch competitions during the annual two-day Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Saturday, April 8, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Youths race horses during the annual Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Sunday, April 9, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A man sells hats during the annual Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo festival, in Lethem, Guyana, Sunday, April 9, 2023. The festival is an Easter weekend tradition, celebrating the Rupununi savannah cowboy lifestyle. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)