I like it because it’s the story of those three athletes. I think you can see the relief in their faces, after the ¬effort. It’s the emotional side of sport. Photograph: Olivier Morin
This was shot at the end of Obama’s speech during the election night party – you can see the confetti coming down. The crowd were mesmerised by his words. Photograph: Matthew Rourke
It is hard to keep political photographs interesting. I took this when Michelle Obama had just introduced the president at a campaign event in Iowa. It shows a personal side of them that you don’t get to see very often, but this ¬embrace seemed very genuine and real to me. Photograph: Jim Watson
I took this picture in February this year. I had been working on a project about Afghan women’s poetry and was trying to find images that were not the usual misery pictures of women in Afghanistan. Photograph: Seamus Murphy
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