Spanish photographers Samuel Nacar and Luis Tato have been awarded two World Press Photo 2025 awards for works on Syrian prisons survivors and youth protests in Kenya, respectively.
Nacar (Barcelona) has been distinguished with the award in the category of Graphic Report of the Western, Central and South Asia Region with the work ‘Shadows already have a name’, a project on survivors of the Syrian prisons that relate the torture that lived during the regime of former president Basha al-Asad.
For its part, Luis Tato (Ciudad Real) has received a World Press Photo 2025 in the graphic report category of the Africa Region, with ‘Youth Revuelta in Kenya’, on the protests in Kenya triggered by the tax rise and motivated by economic difficulties, corruption, police brutality and distrust in the political class.
The World Press Photo 2025 contest has had the participation of 3,778 photographers from 141 countries and 59,320 photographs. The 42 regional winners –20 are local in the region where they captured their stories-come from 30 countries.
The winning works of this edition focus on some of the most urgent problems facing the world today in politics, gender issues, migration, conflicts and climatic crisis. Of the protests in Kenya or El Salvador, to the devastating wars in Lebanon and Palestine, the multiple faces of the climatic crisis in Peru, Brazil or the Philippines, or the persecution of the LGBTQI+ community in Nigeria, among many other issues.
Barcelona will host from November 7 the Exhibition World Press Photo 2025 at the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. The exhibition includes a program of guided visits to the general public-also on weekends-, companies-closed doors-and educational centers, in addition to inviting winning photojournalists and organizing free complementary activities in order to deepen the stories captured and currently in the photojournalistic profession.
Tickets to visit the exhibition will be put up for sale in October through the FundacionPSV.org website, from where you will also access the catalog of the sample published by the Blume publishing house, to the reserve of guided tours and exclusive content such as interviews with some of the winning photojournalists