Istanbul Photo Awards 2017 jury members gather to evaluate in Cappadocia

NEVSEHIR, TURKEY - MARCH 19: Anadolu Agency's Visual News Editor-in-Chief, Ahmet Sel (Far 2nd L); NOOR Images photojournalist, Yuri Kozyrev; founder of Shanghai Center of Photography (SCOP) and Pulitzer laureate photojournalist, Liu Heung Shing (not seen); photojournalist and visual media advisor Georges De Keerle (not seen); Anadolu Agency's Editor of Photography, Firat Yurdakul (not seen); Senior Digital Editor of Paris Match, Marion Mertens (Close L); award-winning staff photographer at Getty Images, Cameron Spencer (2nd L); Visual documentary producer and curator and a co-founder of "Screen", Liza Faktor (Far 3rd L) and Director of Photo Business Development at Agence France-Presse (AFP), Michel Scotto (Close 3rd L) meet to evaluate the applicants' photographs for the 2017 Istanbul Photo Awards in historical Cappadocia region of Nevsehir province of central Turkey on March 19, 2017. Istanbul Photo Awards is an international news photography contest organized by Anadolu Agency with the sponsorship of Turkish Airlines and Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA). The contest aims to contribute to the sphere of news photography and offers a perspective shaped by the regions unique position at the center of diverse cultures. The awards reward endeavors of courageous and talented photojournalists from around the world on merit. Although it is only the third edition of the contest, Istanbul Photo Awards has become one of the most widely known news photography contests in the world. The contest has eight categories. Besides news single, news story, sports single and sports story; there are nature & environment single, nature & environment story, portrait-single and portrait-story categories. (Photo by Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)