{"id":27191,"date":"2025-04-17T17:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/2025-world-press-photo-contest-winners-revealed\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:59:47","slug":"2025-world-press-photo-contest-winners-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/2025-world-press-photo-contest-winners-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 World Press Photo Contest: Winners revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"SamarSamar Abu Elouf for the New York Times<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This image of a young Gazan boy won World Press Photo of the Year <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A haunting image of a young Gazan boy recovering from war injuries has been named World Press Photo of the Year for 2025.<\/b><\/p>\n

The portrait, taken by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for the New York Times, shows nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both arms in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City in March 2024. <\/p>\n

Abu Elouf, who was evacuated from Gaza in late 2023, lives in the same apartment complex as Mahmoud in Doha, Qatar. <\/p>\n

She has documented the lives of several wounded Gazans who made it out for treatment.<\/p>\n

“This is a quiet photo that speaks loudly,” said World Press Photo executive director Joumana El Zein Khoury. <\/p>\n

“It tells the story of one boy, but also of a wider war that will have an impact for generations.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two finalists were selected as runners up alongside the photo of the year. <\/p>\n

Night Crossing by John Moore for Getty Images and Droughts in the Amazon by Musuk Nolte for Panos Pictures, Bertha Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"JohnJohn Moore for Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In Night Crossing, Chinese migrants warm themselves during a cold rain after crossing the US\u2013Mexico border<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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This striking image offers a powerful, intimate view of life at the border, capturing the complex realities of migration often lost in the polarised debate in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"MusukMusuk Nolte Panos Pictures, Bertha Foundation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In Droughts in the Amazon, a young man brings food to his mother who lives in the village of Manacapuru<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A young man carries food to his mother in the Amazon village of Manacapuru – once reachable by boat, now cut off by drought. <\/p>\n

He walks two kilometres along a dry riverbed, a stark reminder of the region’s deepening water crisis. <\/p>\n

The sight of parched, desert-like terrain in the world’s largest rainforest underscores the alarming scale of the drought.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This year’s winners represent the best of the 59,320 photographs by 3,778 photographers from 141 countries. <\/p>\n

Here is a selection of the regional winners, with captions from the competition.<\/p>\n

The three categories were singles (solo photographs), stories (series of 4-10 photos) and long-term projects (24-30 photos on a single theme). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Africa, Singles: Tamale Safalu by Marijn Fidder<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"MarijnMarijn Fidder<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Tamale Safalu pictured training in front of his home in Kampala, Uganda<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Tamale Safalu trains in front of his home in Kampala, Uganda. Safulu lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident but still competes, becoming the first bodybuilder with a disability in Uganda to compete against able-bodied athletes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Africa, Stories: The Elephant Whisperers of Livingstone by Tommy Trenchard, Panos Pictures, for NPR<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"TommyTommy Trenchard for Panos Pictures<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Elephant Response Team members observe an elephant feeding near a military base in Livingstone, Zambia<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In Livingstone, Zambia, failed rainy seasons and expanding human settlements have fuelled a sharp rise in human-elephant conflict. In 2024 alone, elephants killed at least 11 people in the area. <\/p>\n

A local volunteer group is now working to protect both communities and wildlife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Africa, Long-term projects: Women’s Bodies as Battlefields by Cinzia Canneri, Association Camille Lepage<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"CinziaCinzia Canneri for Association Camille Lepage<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Zayid (23, not her real name) shows a scar left by a bullet<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In 2017, photographer Cinzia Canneri began documenting the lives of Eritrean women escaping authoritarian rule. <\/p>\n

Since the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region erupted, her focus has widened to include Tigrayan women fleeing violence. <\/p>\n

Both groups have faced brutal attacks, including rape, torture, and shootings. Zayid, 23 (not her real name – pictured) was raped in a refugee camp in Amhara. <\/p>\n

While fleeing with her family to Addis Ababa, she and her sister were shot and wounded by Amhara soldiers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Asia, Stories: Korea Adoption Fraud by Jae C. Hong for Associated Press<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"JaeJae C. Hong for Associated Press<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Nicole Motta and her birth father Jang Dae-chang wipe away tears after an emotional reunion, some 40 years after they were separated<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Since the 1950s, around 200,000 Korean children have been adopted into the United States. <\/p>\n

An Associated Press investigation has revealed widespread fraud in adoption documents, leaving many adoptees with false or incomplete histories. <\/p>\n

For individuals like Nicole, who is pictured, the search for identity has uncovered painful truths about their past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Asia, Singles: A Nation in Conflict by Ye Aung Thu<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"YeYe Aung Thu<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Khu Reedu (27, centre), the commander of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force, and fellow fighters celebrate victory over a junta military base, Kayah (Karenni) State, Myanmar<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Myanmar, formerly Burma, has faced decades of unrest and conflict since gaining independence, with ongoing struggles for ethnic and regional autonomy. <\/p>\n

Ye Aung Thu, who witnessed the 1988 military coup at the age of six, saw history repeat itself in 2021 when his own son was the same age. <\/p>\n

He has since travelled across the country, documenting insurgent groups and capturing how their resilience offers hope amid turmoil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Asia, Long-term projects: Te Urewera \u2013 The Living Ancestor of T\u016bhoe People by Tatsiana Chypsanava, Pulitzer Center, New Zealand Geographic<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"TatsianaTatsiana Chypsanava for Tatsiana Chypsanava, Pulitzer Center<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Children from the Teepa family drive the younger siblings home after a swim in the river. T\u016bhoe children are taught independence and to care for other family members<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Ng\u0101i T\u016bhoe people of the Te Urewera region in New Zealand have maintained a staunch independence. With a 2014 agreement, the New Zealand government opened the way to T\u016bhoe managing their ancestral lands according to their cultural values.<\/p>\n

Recent changes by New Zealand’s right-wing government are seen as reversals of such policies regarding indigenous peoples. Yet the Tataiwhetu Trust farm in Te Urewera offers a revitalising model for a younger generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Europe, Singles: Beyond the Trenches by Florian Bachmeier<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"FlorianFlorian Bachmeier<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Anhelina, aged six, who is traumatised and suffers panic attacks after having to flee her village, lies in bed in her new home in Borshchivka, Ukraine<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Ongoing conflict in their home village near Kupiansk, a frontline city in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, forced Anhelina’s family to seek refuge. <\/p>\n

She now lives with her grandmother, Larisa, in Borshchivka, 95km from Kupiansk, while her mother lives and works in Kharkiv, about an hour’s journey away. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Europe, Stories: Maria by Maria Abranches<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"MariaMaria Abranches<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ana Maria sits exhausted after helping a client who has had a fall in Lisbon, Portugal<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Ana Maria Jeremias has spent over four decades working as a carer and domestic worker in Portugal, reflecting the experience of many women across Europe.<\/p>\n

Trafficked from Angola at the age of nine under the false promise of an education, she has since played a vital, often overlooked, role in the lives of the families she has served.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Europe, Long-term projects: It Smells of Smoke at Home by Aliona Kardash, DOCKS Collective, for Stern Magazine<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"AlionaAliona Kardash for DOCKS Collective<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A party at a club in Tomsk, where DJs played a few tracks in Ukrainian<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Kardash, a Russian-born photographer now living in Germany, reflects on the loss of home and the pain of loving those who see the world differently. <\/p>\n

Returning to her hometown, she seeks to capture how war reshapes lives, while holding on to the hope that human connection can endure even amid deep divisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

North and Central America, Singles: Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump by Jabin Botsford, for The Washington Post<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"JabinJabin Botsford for The Washington Post<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Members of the United States Secret Service help Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump off stage moments after a bullet from an attempted assassin hit his ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The assassination attempt on Donald Trump is widely seen as a pivotal moment in the 2024 presidential campaign, with lasting implications for the political future of the United States. <\/p>\n

Moments after the shooting, the Republican nominee shouted “Fight, fight, fight!” as he was led from the stage. <\/p>\n

Captured seconds later, this image offers a rare glimpse of vulnerability in a campaign centred on strength and resilience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

North and Central America, Stories: A Place to Die by Oliver Farshi<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"OliverOliver Farshi<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This photograph shows the view from a death bed <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Farshi’s project examines how people confront death in a setting shaped by compassion and choice. <\/p>\n

In a quiet residential neighbourhood in Washington state, where assisted dying is legal in certain circumstances, a house offers the terminally ill a place to spend their final hours, surrounded by care and community.<\/p>\n

Here, with support and dignity, some choose to end their lives by taking prescribed medication, highlighting the deeply personal, and often tender, process of dying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

North and Central America, Long-term projects: Life and Death in a Country Without Constitutional Rights by Carlos Barrera, El Faro, NPR<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"CarlosCarlos Barrera for El Faro<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A group of arrested people are held before entering the Ilopango jail, San Salvador, El Salvador<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In 2022, El Salvador declared a “state of emergency” to combat gang violence, restricting rights like assembly and privacy. <\/p>\n

Renewed 35 times by March 2025, it has led to mass incarceration and overcrowded prisons, where reports of abuse and neglect are common. <\/p>\n

This project focuses on the personal stories behind these policies, revealing the human toll of the crackdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

South America, Singles: Aircraft on Flooded Tarmac by Anselmo Cunha, Agence France-Presse<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"AnselmoAnselmo Cunha for Agence France-Presse<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A stranded Boeing 727-200 surrounded by floodwaters at Salgado Filho International Airport in Brazil<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Between April and June 2024, record-breaking rainfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, led to the worst flood in the area’s history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

South America, Stories: Jaid\u00eb by Santiago Mesa<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"SantiagoSantiago Mesa<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mar\u00eda Camila, Luisa, and Noraisi Birry stand by the grave of their sister Yadira, while wearing the paruma shawls Yadira left behind following her suicide<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Ember\u00e1 Dobida, a nomadic indigenous group from Colombia, have migrated to Bogot\u00e1 to escape paramilitary violence but face discrimination in the capital.<\/p>\n

Suicides in the community have risen sharply, from 15 between 2015 and 2020 to 67 suicides and over 400 attempts by 2024. <\/p>\n

This project highlights the lives of Ember\u00e1 women affected by the crisis, shedding light on their struggles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

South America, Long-term projects: Paths of Desperate Hope by Federico R\u00edos<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"FedericoFederico R\u00edos<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ali, Taiba, and their son, from Afghanistan, on a three-day bus trip, the last leg of their journey from Mexico City to Tijuana, where they will cross the border into the United States<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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This project follows the dangerous journeys of migrants crossing the Dari\u00e9n Gap, a 100-kilometre stretch of dense jungle between Colombia and Panama. <\/p>\n

Their paths are fraught with peril, from treacherous rivers and harsh terrain to the constant threat of violence and exploitation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

West, Central, and South Asia, Singles: Drone Attacks in Beirut by Murat \u015eeng\u00fcl, Anadolu Agency<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"MuratMurat \u015eeng\u00fcl<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

People glance anxiously upwards during an Israeli drone strike, as they take refuge away from buildings in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighbourhood in Lebanon<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which had been ongoing since the start of the Gaza conflict, intensified sharply in September 2024.<\/p>\n

Beirut, once a safe haven for those fleeing airstrikes in southern Lebanon, itself came under fire as the violence spread northwards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

West, Central, and South Asia, Stories: No Woman’s Land by Kiana Hayeri, Fondation Carmignac<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"KianaKiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wazhmah sits at home with her daughter Tahmeena, 19, in Kabul, Afghanistan<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban government denies access to education to girls over 12, bars them from most work outside the home and in some regions, forbids them from leaving home without a male guardian, or with their face uncovered. <\/p>\n

The spaces where women once gathered freely are now off limits. Despite these restrictions, Afghan women find subtle but powerful ways to resist. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

West, Central, and South Asia, Long-term projects: Bullets Have No Borders by Ebrahim Alipoor<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\"EbrahimEbrahim Alipoor<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A widow of one of the border couriers, wearing a veil<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Kolbars (border couriers) carry goods, such as household appliances, mobile phones, and clothes, on their backs through treacherous terrain from Iraq and Turkey into Iranian Kurdistan. <\/p>\n

Decades-long marginalisation of Kurds means widespread unemployment in the region, driving many to a life of kolbari, where they risk being shot by security forces and border patrols.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All photographs courtesy World Press Photo Foundation<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

The <\/b><\/i>World Press Photo Exhibition 2025<\/b><\/i><\/a> will take place at MPB Gallery, Here East, London from 23rd May \u2013 25th August 2025<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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