World Press Photo of the Year

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The World Press Photo of the Year award is part of the World Press Photo Awards, organized by the Dutch foundation World Press Photo.

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Considered one of the most prestigious and coveted awards in photojournalism, the World Press Photo of the Year is awarded to the image that "... is not only the photojournalistic encapsulation of the year, but represents an issue, situation or event of great journalistic importance, and does so in a way that demonstrates an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity." [1]

The jury, composed of 10 members, also assigns the World Press Photo Story of the Year to a multi-image story that explores a theme of social relevance distinguished by photographic intensity and importance of the content. The creators of the two main awards receive a cash prize corresponding to €5,000. [2]

In addition to the two main prizes, 3 single photo prizes and 3 story prizes are also awarded in each of eight categories. [3]

List of Press Photos of the Year

The following is a list of all winners of the Press Photo of the Year, and information on the respective images.

Contest yearPhotographerSubjectDescriptionWeb link
1955 Flag of Denmark.svg Mogens von Haven  [ fr ] Motorcycle racing On 28 August 1955, at Volk Mølle Racetrack in Assentoft, Denmark, a motorcyclist crashes during a competition. Image
1956 Flag of Germany.svg Helmuth Pirath  [ fr ]Coming home from the warA German World War II prisoner is released by the Soviet Union and reunited with his 12-year-old daughter in West Germany, who has not seen him since infancy. Image
1957 Flag of the United States.svg Douglas Martin Racial segregation in the United States Accompanied by violence and harassment, Dorothy Counts becomes one of the first African American students at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Image
1958No award given.
1959 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Stanislav Tereba Football During a football game between the teams Sparta Praha and Červená Hviezda Bratislava, Sparta's goalkeeper Miroslav Čtvrtníček stands on the football field in pouring rain. Image
1960No award given.
1961 Flag of Japan.svg Yasushi Nagao Assassination of Inejirō Asanuma On 12 October 1960, the 17-year-old extreme right-wing student Otoya Yamaguchi kills the socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma with a sword during a speech in Tokyo's Hibiya Hall. Image
1962 Flag of Venezuela (1930-1954).svg Héctor Rondón Lovera  [ es ] El Porteñazo uprising in VenezuelaDuring the El Porteñazo military rebellion, a dying soldier clings to a priest with sniper fire all around them. Image
1963 Flag of the United States.svg Malcolm Browne Suppression of Buddhists in Vietnam The Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức sets himself ablaze in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Image
1964 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Don McCullin Cyprus crisis of 1963–64 A Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, victim of the Greek–Turkish civil war. Image
1965 Flag of Japan.svg Kyōichi Sawada Vietnam War A mother and her children wade through a river in Loc Thuong in the South Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh to escape US bombing. Image
1966 Flag of Japan.svg Kyōichi SawadaVietnam WarOn 24 February 1966, American troops drag the body of a Viet Cong fighter behind their M113 Armored Personnel Carrier for burial, after he was killed in a fierce night attack by several Viet Cong battalions against Australian forces during the Battle of Suoi Bong Trang. Image
1967 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Co Rentmeester Vietnam WarThe gunner of an M48 Patton looks through his sight. This was the first colour photograph to win the award. Image
1968 Flag of the United States.svg Eddie Adams Vietnam WarOn 1 February 1968, the South Vietnamese police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan summarily executes Viet Cong prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém on a street in Saigon with a bullet to the head. Image
1969 Flag of Germany.svg Hanns-Jörg Anders  [ de ] The Troubles An Irish Catholic wearing a gas mask stands in front of a wall with the graffiti we want peace, moments before teargas is thrown by British troops. Image
1970No award given.
1971No award given.
1972 Flag of Germany.svg Wolfgang Peter Geller  [ de ] Bank robbery in Saarbrücken After a bank robbery in Saarbrücken, a shootout takes place between police and the bank robbers. Image
1973 Flag of South Vietnam.svg Nick Út Vietnam WarThe young Phan Thị Kim Phúc and other children flee with severe burns caused by napalm, mistakenly dropped by South Vietnamese planes. Image
1974 Flag of Chile.svg Orlando Lagos Coup in Chile On 11 September 1973, president Salvador Allende appears shortly before his suicide in the presidential palace La Moneda during General Pinochet's military coup. Lagos's identity as the photographer was not revealed until February 2007, a month after his death. Image
1975 Flag of the United States.svg Ovie Carter Sahel famine, Niger A small child suffers during a drought in Niger. Image
1976 Flag of the United States.svg Stanley Forman Fire Escape Collapse During a fire in a Boston apartment building, the fire escape collapses and a woman falls down with her goddaughter. The woman died at the scene of impact. Image
1977 Flag of France.svg Françoise Demulder Lebanese Civil War In January 1976, a group of Palestinian refugees flees civil war in Beirut. Image
1978 Flag of South Africa.svg Leslie Hammond Apartheid The South African police tear-gas a group of demonstrators in Modderdam, near Cape Town. Image
1979 Flag of Japan.svg Sadayuki Mikami  [ it ] Sanrizuka Struggle After years of protests against the construction of Narita Airport, which is ready to open when on 26 March 1978 serious clashes break out between demonstrators and Riot Police Unit. Image
1980 Flag of the United States.svg David Burnett Fall of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia In November 1979, in a refugee camp in Sa Keo near the ThaiCambodian border, a woman holds her child in her arms. Image
1981 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Mike Wells Famine in Karamoja, Uganda In April 1980, a white missionary in northeastern Uganda holds the comparatively tiny hand of a starving African boy. Image
1982 Flag of Spain.svg Manuel Pérez Barriopedro  [ es ] 23-F coup attempt in Madrid On 23 February 1981 Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero speaks with a gun in his hand before the Spanish Congress of Deputies, holding hostage the government and MPs. Image
1983 Flag of the United States.svg Robin Moyer  [ it ] 1982 Lebanon War On 18 September 1982, Palestinian corpses lie in the street in the aftermath of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, when Phalangist Maronite Christian militias killed Palestinian refugees. Image
1984 Flag of Turkey.svg Mustafa Bozdemir  [ it ] Earthquake in Turkey On 30 October 1983, following a devastating earthquake in the vicinity of Erzurum and Kars, Kezban Özer finds her five children buried alive. Image
1985 Flag of India.svg Pablo Bartholomew Bhopal disaster The body of a child, killed in a chemical accident at the plant of US chemical company Union Carbide Corporation, is buried. Image
1986 Flag of France.svg Frank Fournier Omayra Sánchez Sánchez, a victim of the Armero volcanic disaster, died after being trapped in a mud hole for 60 hours. Image
1987 Flag of the United States.svg / Flag of Israel.svg Alon Reininger  [ it ] AIDS American AIDS patient Ken Meeks sits in a wheelchair. On his arms are numerous lesions caused by Kaposi's sarcoma. Image
1988 Flag of the United States.svg Anthony Suau Election in South Korea On 18 December 1987, a desperate mother in Kuro, South Korea leans against a riot policeman's shield and begs for mercy for her son, arrested during a demonstration. After the November election there were protests against the government, accused of electoral fraud. Image
1989 Flag of the United States.svg David Turnley Earthquake in Armenia In Leninakan, Boris Abgarzian grieves for his 17-year-old son, a victim of the Armenian earthquake. Image
1990 Flag of the United States.svg Charlie Cole Tiananmen Square Massacre A protester, later dubbed Tank Man, stops a group of People's Liberation Army battle tanks during the massacre in Tiananmen, Beijing. Image
1991 Flag of France.svg Georges Merillon  [ it ] Kosovo conflictThe family of Nashim Elshani grieves around his deathbed; he was killed while protesting for Kosovar autonomy. Image
1992 Flag of the United States.svg David Turnley Gulf War US Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz mourns the death of fellow soldier Andy Alaniz, killed by friendly fire. Image
1993 Flag of the United States.svg James Nachtwey Famine in Somalia A Somali mother lifts up the body of her child, killed by malnutrition. Image
1994 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Larry Towell Palestinian territories Palestinian children raise their toy guns in the air. Image
1995 Flag of the United States.svg James Nachtwey Rwandan genocide Hutu man mutilated by the Hutu Interahamwe militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. Image
1996 Flag of the United States.svg Lucian Perkins First Chechen War A boy peers out of a refugee-packed bus fleeing fighting near Shali, Chechnya and heading for Grozny. Image
1997 Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Zizola Angolan Civil War Young land mine victims play in the Angolan city of Kuito. Image
1998 Flag of Algeria.svg Hocine Algerian Civil War A woman mourns the victims of a massacre in Bentalha, Algeria. Image
1999 Flag of the United States.svg Dayna Smith Kosovo conflictRelatives and friends comfort the widow of a KLA fighter, shot dead while on patrol the previous day. Image
2000 Flag of Denmark.svg Claus Bjørn Larsen Kosovo War A wounded Kosovar Albanian refugee walks the streets of Kukës, Albania. Image
2001 Flag of the United States.svg Lara Jo Regan Immigration to the United States A Mexican immigrant works in order to feed her children. Image
2002 Flag of Denmark.svg Erik Refner Refugee disaster in Afghanistan In the Jalozai refugee camp, the body of an Afghan boy is prepared for burial. Image
2003 Flag of Armenia.svg / Flag of the United States.svg Eric Grigorian  [ it ] Earthquake in Iran A boy holds the trousers of his dead father, killed in the 22 June 2002 earthquake. Image
2004 Flag of France.svg Jean-Marc Bouju Iraq War An Iraqi prisoner of war with a hood over his head comforts his son at a holding centre. Image
2005 Flag of India.svg Arko Datta Indian Ocean earthquake Two days after the tsunami, a desperate Indian woman mourns a relative killed in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. Image
2006 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Finbarr O'Reilly Niger food crisis A mother and her child wait for food in an emergency center in Tahoua, Niger. Image
2007 Flag of the United States.svg Spencer Platt Lebanon War Five young Lebanese ride in a convertible through the rubble of a bombed South Beirut. [4] [5] Image
2008 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Tim Hetherington Afghanistan War An exhausted American soldier leans against a wall and keeps his eyes covered. Image
2009 Flag of the United States.svg Anthony Suau Subprime mortgage crisis An armed officer moves through a home following residents' eviction as a result of mortgage foreclosure. Image
2010 Flag of Italy.svg Pietro Masturzo 2009 Iranian presidential election An Iranian woman shouting from a rooftop in Tehran in protest against the result of Iranian presidential elections held in 2009. Image
2011 Flag of South Africa.svg Jodi Bieber Taliban treatment of women Bibi Aisha, 18, was disfigured as retribution for fleeing her husband's house in Oruzgan province, in the center of Afghanistan. At the age of 12, Aisha and her younger sister had been given to the family of a Taliban fighter under a Pashtun tribal custom for settling disputes. Image
2012 Flag of Spain.svg Samuel Aranda Protests in Yemen, Arab Spring A woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011. Image
2013 Flag of Sweden.svg Paul Hansen Victims of Operation Pillar of Defense Grieving men carry to their funerals two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and her three-year-old brother Muhammad, killed by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City that killed their father, Fouad, and critically injured their mother. Taken 20 November 2012. Image
2014 Flag of the United States.svg John Stanmeyer African migrants Migrants on the shore of Djibouti City raise their cell phones in an attempt to capture an inexpensive signal from neighboring Somalia. Image
2015 Flag of Denmark.svg Mads Nissen [6] [7] [8] Homophobia in Russia The photo shows a gay couple during an intimate moment, reminding the beholder that life for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people is becoming increasingly difficult in Russia. Image
2016 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Warren Richardson  [ fr ] European migrant crisis A nocturnal image showing a man passing a baby through a barbed wire fence on the SerbiaHungary border, namely between Horgoš (Serbia) and Röszke (Hungary). Image
2017 Flag of Turkey.svg Burhan Ozbilici Assassination of Andrei Karlov The photo shows police officer Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş standing next to Andrei Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, moments after he shot him in the back. Altıntaş shot Karlov to protest Russia's involvement in the Syrian Civil War. Image
2018 Flag of Venezuela.svg Ronaldo Schemidt Crisis in Venezuela José Salazar, 28, catches fire amid violent clashes with riot police during a protest against president Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. Salazar was set alight when the gas tank of a motorbike exploded. He survived the incident with first and second-degree burns. President Maduro had announced plans to revise Venezuela's democratic system by forming a constituent assembly to replace the opposition-led National Assembly. Image
2019 Flag of the United States.svg John Moore Immigration policy of Donald Trump A Honduran toddler cries as she and her mother are taken into custody by US border officials in McAllen, Texas. Image
2020 Flag of Japan.svg Yasuyoshi Chiba Sudanese coup d'état The photo shows a young man reciting protest poems during a nightly power cut in Khartoum on 19 June 2019. He is surrounded by numerous people who illuminate him with their mobile phones and chant slogans for the restoration of civilian rule. In a time of violence and conflict, the jury chairman deliberately chose a photo that symbolises hope and does not depict war and violence. Image
2021 Flag of Denmark.svg Mads Nissen COVID-19 pandemic The image shows the first hug Rosa received in five months due to the Coronavirus. In March, nursing homes in Brazil closed their doors to all visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing millions of Brazilians from visiting their elderly relatives. Assistants were ordered to keep physical contact with vulnerable people to a minimum. Image
2022 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Amber Bracken [9] [10] Kamloops Residential School The photo shows children's clothing hung on crosses commemorating the more than two hundred children who died of maltreatment, neglect and disease at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Image
2023 Flag of Ukraine.svg Evgeniy Maloletka [11] [12] Mariupol hospital airstrike The photo shows a pregnant woman who was seriously injured in the shelling of the clinic and is carried away by helpers. Short time later, the woman and the unborn child are dead. Image
2024 Flag of Palestine.svg Mohammed Salem [13] [14] Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip The photo shows a woman holding the body of her niece, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis. Image
The list below contains all the winners of the World Press Photo Story of the Year award and information on their respective photo projects.
Contest yearPhotographerSubjectDescriptionWeb link
2019 Flag of Sweden.svg Pieter ten Hoopen  [ sv ]The Migrant CaravanDuring October and November, thousands of Central American migrants joined a caravan heading to the United States border. The caravan, assembled through a grassroots social media campaign, left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on 12 October, and as word spread drew people from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Story
2020 Flag of France.svg Romain Laurendeau  [ fr ]Kho, the Genesis of a RevoltYoung people make up more than half of Algeria's population, and according to a UNESCO report 72% of people under 30 in Algeria are unemployed. Pivotal moments in Algerian history, such as the 'Black October' revolt of 1988, have had angry youth at their core. Black October was harshly suppressed—more than 500 people were killed in five days—and was followed by a 'black decade' of violence and unrest. Story
2021 Flag of Italy.svg Antonio Faccilongo HabibiHabibi, which means 'my love' in Arabic, chronicles love stories set against the backdrop of one of the longest and most complicated conflicts in modern history. The photographer aims to show the impact of the conflict on Palestinian families, and the difficulties they face in preserving their reproductive rights and human dignity. Story
2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matthew Abbott [9] Saving Forests with Fire
2023 Flag of Denmark.svg Mads Nissen [12] The Price of Peace in Afghanistan

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