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Prestigious photography contest, the Siena International Photo Awards had a COVID-19 category this year. Photographers from around the world submitted touching, striking and often upsetting shots. 9News

Prestigious photography contest, the Siena International Photo Awards this year had a COVID-19 category.But this snap, by Spanish photographer Brais Lorenzo Couto and titled Birthday was named the winner.

The photographer notes of the almost 200,000 cases in Amazonas state, around 60 per cent were from rural areas.Andrea Hinterleitner "My grandma and grandpa before going to sleep look very lonely and sad in the quarantine during the COVID Lockdown," she describes the shot.An emotional moment at Vadi-e Rahmat Cemetery, Tabriz, Iran, as The Mayyith Prayer - or corpse prayer- is recited for a person who died from COVID-19.Viterbo in Italy is the location of this shot, titled Finestra e Lock Down.

A reminder of the litter generated by pandemic masks, as a curious California sea lion plays with a KN95 mask in Monterey, California.The photo is called Sign of the Tides and was taken by Ralph Pace.A tired doctor at Ankara hospital in Turkey is the subject of Portrait of Humanity by F. Dilek Uyar.Photographer Ahmed Mohamed Hassan described his image, Five Fingers, taken in Turkey.

 

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