Axel Javier Sulzbacher has won the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2025 with his work on the highly lucrative and murky world of avocado cultivation in Mexico which has been infiltrated by criminal gangs and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

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A group of armed men from one of the many armed groups who guard Michoacan’s trails and roads from small outposts. Michoacan, Mexico. © Axel Javier Sulzbacher/Panos Pictures