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World Press Photo Contest

18 April 2024

  • A man stands at a podium reading from a script. Behind him hangs a large image showing a seated woman, her head bowed in grief, holding the body of a child completely wrapped in a winding-sheet

    War, grief and hope: the stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners

    Images from Gaza, Ukraine, Madagascar and the US border chosen by global jury from more than 60,000 entries

15 April 2021

  • Rosa Luzia Lunardi, 85, is embraced by the nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza at Viva Bem care home in São Paulo on 5 August 2020

    World Press Photo 2021 winners – in pictures

    The winners have been announced for this year’s World Press Photo Contest

17 April 2020

  • People chant slogans as a young man recites a poem, illuminated by mobile phones, before the opposition's direct dialog with people in Khartoum on June 19, 2019. - People chanted slogans including "revolution" and "civil" as the young man recited a poem about revolution. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

    World Press Photo Contest 2020 – the winning pictures

    The World Press Photo Foundation has announced the results of the 63rd annual Photo Contest. We take a look at a selection of this year’s celebrated images

11 April 2019

  • A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries near the US-Mexico border.

    The World Press Photo Contest 2019 – the winning pictures

    Since 1955, the World Press Photo Contest has recognised professional photographers for the best pictures contributing to the past year of visual journalism. Here are this year’s winners

21 February 2019

  • Havana, Cuba.

    World Press Photo Contest 2019 – the nominees

    The World Press Photo Foundation has unveiled its global photojournalism prize nominees for 2019

24 July 2018

  • Alessio Mamo photograph from Dreaming Food

    Row erupts over 'poverty porn' images of Indian villagers with fake food

    Award-winning photographer Alessio Mamo attracts fierce criticism for pictures staged to illustrate hunger, but says he worked honestly and respectfully

13 April 2018

  • Ronaldo Schemidt’s World Press Photo of the year 2018

    World Press Photo Contest 2018 – the winning pictures

    Highlights from this year’s competition include Ronaldo Schemidt’s image of a man on fire, which took the top prize

15 February 2018

  • Nigeria teenager

    World Press Photo Contest 2018 – the nominees in pictures

    The most prestigious photojournalist prize in the world has unveiled the finalists in its photo of the year contest before selecting a winner
    Warning: contains graphic images

14 February 2017

  • Guardian photographer Tom Jenkins won the Sports - First Prize, Singles award of the World Press Photo Contest 2017

    Tom Jenkins wins sports prize at World Press Photo awards 2017 – in pictures

    The award-winning photos from the World Press Photo awards sports category including the Guardian’s Tom Jenkins’ image of Nina Carberry taking flight

13 February 2017

  • World Press Photo Awards 2017 - Sports - First Prize, Singles - Tom Jenkins, The Guardian - Grand National Steeplechase<br>Jockey Nina Carberry flies off her horse Sir Des Champs as they fall at The Chair fence during the Grand National steeplechase during day three of the Grand National Meeting at Aintree Racecourse on April 9th 2016 in Liverpool, England. Tom Jenkins, The Guardian/Courtesy of World Press Photo Foundation/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ON WORLD PRESS PHOTO ONLY. NO RESALES. NO CROPPING

    It took me 25 years to get this picture: how I took my prize-winning Grand National shot

  • World Press Photo contest winner Burhan Özbilici (right) is interviewed in front of his winning picture.

    Image of Turkish assassin wins 2017 World Press Photo award

  • General news - stories, first prize Police inspect an alley where a victim was killed by two unidentified gunmen in Manila, Philippines

    World Press Photo Contest 2017 – winning pictures

  • Burhan Ozbilici

    This image of terror should not be photo of the year – I voted against it

    Stuart Franklin

4 March 2016

  • In this image released by World Press Photo titled "The Gris-gris Wrestlers of Senegal" by photographer Christian Bobst which won the second prize Sports Stories category shows a tournament in the Adrien Senghor arena leaning towards the end. The wrestling fights take place in the late evenings when temperatures drop. Dakar, Senegal, 28 March 28, 2015. (Christian Bobst, World Press Photo via AP)

    Eyewitness
    Eyewitness: Dakar, Senegal

  • Wrestlers compete in the Wrestling school of Ex-Wrestler Balla Gaye on August 10, 2015. The Star-Wrestler Balla Gaye 2 and many other successful wrestlers have arisen from this famous school, which was the first official wrestling school in Senegal.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Gigantic grace: in the sands with Senegal's voodoo wrestlers

19 February 2016

  • This image released by World Press Photo, titled China's Coal Addiction by photographer Kevin Frayer for Getty Images, won first prize in the Daily Life singles category and shows Chinese men pulling a tricycle in a neighbourhood next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China, on 26 November 2015. A history of heavy dependence on burning coal for energy has made China the source of nearly a third of the world's total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the toxic pollutants widely cited by scientists and environmentalists as the primary cause of global warming.

    Eyewitness
    Eyewitness: World Press Photo contest 2016

    Photographs from the Eyewitness series

18 February 2016

  • WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2016

    World Press Photo 2016 winners - in pictures

    For the past two weeks in Amsterdam the World Press Photo judges have been deliberating hard to pick this year’s winning images

5 March 2015

  • One of the photos in La Ville Noire - The dark heart of Europe series by Giovanni Troilo.

    Photography blog
    Are the World Press Photo awards straying too far into art?

  • One of the images from Giovanni Troilo's La Ville Noire - The dark heart of Europe.

    World Press Photo award withdrawn over violation of rules

27 February 2015

  • An image from the controversial series ‘Dark Heart of Europe’ taken by Giovanni Troilo which won the Contemporary Issues category at World Press Photo 2015. Trolio has been accused of misrepresenting the town of Charleroi in which the images were taken.

    Distortion of reality? Belgian town disputes award-winning photographs

    Dark Heart of Europe, an award winning set of photos shot in Charleroi, Belgium, has been described as a serious distortion of reality by the town’s mayor
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