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AFP Photo's official Twitter account. Tweeting news and features from Agence France-Presse's global photo network
Joined October 2012
🇦🇷 A cat sits on heads of garlic at a stall of the Central Market in Tapiales, Buenos Aires. 📷 @rschemidt #AFP
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#UnitedStates - Aerial view of people gathering to pay tribute at a makeshift memorial in honour of George Floyd in Minnesota. 📸 @Chandanphoto #AFP. #GeorgeFloyd #MinneapolisProtest #BlackLivesMatter
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#Ukraine .A member of Ukrainian forces, wearing Guy Fawkes mask (Anonymous mask), patrols downtown Kyiv. 📸 @ArisMessinis .#AFP
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#Turkey - Mesut Hancer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, who died in the earthquake in Kahramanmaras. 📷 @AdemAltan3 #AFP
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#China - A bus is disinfected with ultraviolet rays as part of measures against of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Shanghai. #AFP .📸 @hectorretamal.
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#France .Aerial picture of the Mont-Saint-Michel surrounded by the sea during high tide. 📷 @DamienMeyerAfp.#AFP
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And big congrats to @NAsfouri who wins 1st Prize in General News category for a series of pictures taken during anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong in 2019 #AFP #WPPh2020 @WorldPressPhoto
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Japanese actor and singer Jun Shison poses for a photo session during the 2nd edition of the Cannes International Series Festival. #AFP @CANNESERIES @villecannes #Series @jun_shison0305 .📷 @JoelSaget
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🇬🇧 A black cat stops play during the English Premier League match between Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers. #AFP . 📸 @ellophoto
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Pope Francis waves to well wishers while wearing his poncho on a rainy day in Tacloban | By @afp's @johaynz
http://t.co/Tld2bWyBL1.
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#ElSalvador .Members of the MS-13 and 18 gangs remain in an overcrowded cell at the Quezaltepeque prison. 📷 @YuriYurisky #AFP .#Coronavirus #COVID19
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27th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award - .#photographer Anthony WALLACE winner of the.1st Prize for Public's choice for his work on Hong Kong protest. Congratulations @AntAFP
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🇬🇧 Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is flanked by men's race winner Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge (L) and women's race winner, Kenya's Brigid Kosgei (R) at the medal ceremony at the 2019 London Marathon in central London on April 28, 2019. 📸 Ben STANSALL #AFP
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People gather to mourn the victims of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Eritrean Soldiers in the village of Dengolat, North of Mekele, the capital of Tigray. 📸 @edusoteras #AFP
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#Australia - Osaka shows gentle touch to reach last 16 at Open. 📸 Paul Crock #AFP.📸 David Gray .
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Capturing the winning shots of this year's @HRPressAwards. @AntAFP takes you behind the scenes of the powerful images from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019. @AFPblogs @AFPphoto
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Capturing the winning shots of this year's @HRPressAwards. @AntAFP takes you behind the scenes of the powerful images from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019. @AFPblogs @AFPphoto
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, dressed as Super Mario, during the closing ceremony. By @philippe_lopez #AFP
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🇦🇫 In memory of Shah Marai, AFP’s chief photographer in Afghanistan. A selection of his work
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#AFP photographers scoop up 'World Press Photo of the Year' and other prizes at @WorldPressPhoto 2020. Here they are in their own words. Congratulations to @YasuyoshiChiba. @NAsfouri. @oliscarff. and @seandaveyaus ! @AFPblogs .
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'Ring of fire' eclipse wows across Asia. #AFP .📸 Louis Kwok.📸 Arun Sankar.📸 Yasser Al-Zayyat.📸 @mirroreye
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#MEX #US Venezuelan artist Manuel Oliver, father of a student killed in the Parkland shooting, walks near the Mexico-US border fence with a mural made by him reading "On the other side they also kill our sons" in Tijuana @AFPphoto by @GmoAriasC
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#China - Hong Kong satirists say self-censorship already blunting dissent. #AFP .📸 @AntAFP.📸 @ILawrencephoto.
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#Coronavirus #COVID19 #Spain Healthcare workers applaud in memory of their co-worker Esteban, a male nurse that died of the coronavirus disease at the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, near Madrid. 📸Pierre-Philippe Marcou #AFP
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#France - A protester uses a racket to return a teargas projectile during a demonstration against a deeply unpopular pensions overhaul in Nantes. 📷 @LoicVenance #AFP
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Kindu Fenta, 17, reads a book inside a classroom which was allegedly looted by pro-TPLF (Tigray People Liberation Front) rebels in Zarima, 140 kilometers from Gondar, Ethiopia. #AFP . 📸 @amanuel4sileshi
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#Germany .Protesters crowd around the victory column and close to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to demonstrate for peace in Ukraine. 📸 @odd_andersen.#AFP
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Huge congrats to @YasuyoschiChiba who wins ‘World Press Photo of the Year’ award for his photo of a young man reciting protest poetry while demonstrators chant slogans calling for civilian rule in Khartoum, Sudan #AFP #WPPh2020 @WorldPressPhoto
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27th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award - .#photographer Anthony WALLACE winner of the.1st Prize for Public's choice for his work on Hong Kong protest. Congratulations @AntAFP
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Donald Trump's plane passes Hillary Clinton's campaign plane at McCarran International Airport, in Las Vegas. By @b_smialowski #AFP
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#Belarus - People of Minsk bid farewell to protester killed in post-election unrest. #AFP .📸 @sergeygapon
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AFP’s photographers Ronaldo Schemidt, Juan Barreto and Oli Scarff won World Press Photo contests as Photo of the Year, 3rd place in Spot News Sinlgles and 1st Sport Single, respectively. Big Congratulations to all! @rschemidt, @jbarreto1974 @oliscarff #AFPphoto
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Bodies of Covid-19 coronavirus victims lined up before cremation at a cremation ground in New Delhi. 📷 @Money_Sharma
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#India Sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik gives final touches to a sculpture in honour of British physicist and award-winning author Stephen Hawking at Puri beach #stephenhawking
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#WorldCup #CRO #ENG #CROENG . Fans cheer before the match Croatia vs England. 📷 @franck_fife @YuriYurisky @MananVatsyayana & Kirill Kudryavtsev
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Hong Kong police swarm border town on anniversary of protest attack #AFP .📸 @daledelarey
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#AFP photographer @ludovic_marin captures scenes in front of the Eiffel Tower at the Champ de Mars in paris after snowfalls.
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#WorldCup AFP photographer becomes part of Croatia World Cup goal celebration; #AFP.#CRO #ENG #CROENG .📸 @YuriYurisky .📸@AFPMladen.📸@jewelsamad
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#Coronavirus #COVID19 .Pictures taken by Paolo Miranda inside the Cremona hospital, southeast of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. #AFP
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