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This 24-minute documentary was co-produced in 2021 by production company FACTSTORY, which is a subsidiary of AFP, Arte/France 24 and with the support of CNC. It was written by Yann Ollivier, Pierre-Olivier François and Moïse Gomis.

The suspect, named as Bai L., is accused of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder, including the 2004 killing of an AFP journalist.

Olivier Morin recently spent time with surfers on the beaches of Norway’s Lofoten Islands.

Above the Arctic Circle, men and women were taking surf lessons in snowstorms on Unstad Beach, with a ir temperatures dropping to around 13 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit).

As day turned to night, some surfers stayed behind to witness the northern lights, with a few even venturing to paddleboard under the bright night skies.

Morin photographed several days of surfing, capturing these beautiful scenes of sunshine, snowfall, surfing, sunsets, and the aurora borealis.

Kirill Kudryavtsev, an AFP photographer based in Moscow, won an Excellence Award in the “Space on Earth” category for his photo of a women walking under snowfall in front of a Soyuz rocket installed as a monument in Baikonur city, near the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on December 05, 2021.

Brendan Smialowski won “Photographer of the Year” and “Political Photo of the Year” in the Top Honors category. He won the political photo prize for this image of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before a meeting in Geneva on 16 June 2021.

Daniel Leal arrived in Kyiv on the eve of the outbreak of the war. In this video edition of The Making-Of, Leal describes how he witnessed Ukraine’s capital transform overnight from a lively buzzing big city that reminded him of London, to a place of despair and shock.

Watch the complete episode here.

Kohsar was awarded the “Varenne National award for an international topic” for his emblematic picture showing a US soldier pointing his gun toward an Afghan passenger at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the Taliban rule.

Belgrade-based photographer Andrej Isakovic won the first prize in the “Single Sports” category for his image of the moment when Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen collided during the Italian Formula One Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale circuit in Monza, September 12, 2021.