John Stanmeyer wins the coveted 2014 World Press Award for his photo of African men trying to connect to a cell tower in Somalia so they could call loved ones.
"It connects to all of us," Stanmeyer told the AFP news agency.
"It's just people trying to call loved ones. It could be you, it could be me, it could be any one of us."
Another panel member, Susan Linfield, said: "So many pictures of migrants show them as bedraggled and pathetic... but this photo is not so much romantic, as dignified."
Stanmeyer was on assignment for the National Geographic when he took this shot.
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