Inas Abu Maamar holds 5-year-old Salya, her sibling’s child, who was killed along with her mother and sister in October in an Israeli attack on the town of Khan Yunis in Gaza.
The winners of World Press Photo are pictures from Gaza, Madagascar, Mexico and Ukraine.
World The winners of the most prestigious photojournalism competition World Press Photo have been announced.
A photo of a Palestinian woman holding a child’s body wrapped in a white cloth in her arms was chosen as the photo of the year. The photo was taken by the news agency Reuters Mohammed Salem. The picture is called A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece.
Salem describes the moment of taking the picture as “a powerful and sad moment, which summarizes a broader understanding of the events in the Gaza Strip”. Photo contest in the bulletin it is said that the picture shows a 36-year-old woman holding her 5-year-old sibling’s child in her arms. The child, along with his mother and sister, were reportedly killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Khan Yunis in Gaza.
According to the jury, the photo chosen as Magazine Photo of the Year was taken with care and respect and offers a glimpse of an unimaginable loss.
Dementia-stricken 91-year-old Dada Paul Rakotazandrin gets ready for church with his grandchild, 5-year-old Odliatemix Rafaraniriana, on Sunday morning at his home in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
A year this year’s picture series was chosen as photo reportage Answersfilmed by a South African Lee-Ann For me.
His photo reportage, filmed in Madagascar, focuses on dementia, the disease of which often leads to stigma in the country due to a lack of information.
The jury mentions how the images convey warmth and tenderness and remind viewers of the need for love and closeness in times of global wars and aggression.
Joeline (Fara) Rafaraniriana watches her father, Dada Paul Rakotazandri, catch fish at home on a Sunday afternoon. Fara takes care of both her daughter and her father suffering from dementia. Fara is said to be struggling with how to have time to both provide for her family and take care of all her responsibilities.
Odliatemix Rafaraniriana (left), Joeline (Fara) Rafaraniriana and Dada Paul Rakotazandrini walk to church on Sunday morning.
Long ones projects series, a Venezuelan who photographed for The New York Times and Bloomberg was chosen as the winner Alejandro Cegarran The Two Walls.
The pictures focus on migration and depict the journey of migrants leaving Mexico towards their new country of residence.
The jury praises the picture series as world-class storytelling. The pictures convey the intimate feelings present in the journeys of various migrants, the jury states.
An immigrant walks on top of a freight train in Piedras Negras, Mexico. If migrants are unable to pay smugglers, they often end up riding freight trains en route to the US border.
Migrants Rosa Bello (left) and Ruben Soto traveled on a freight train towards the United States. They met in Mexico and fell in love along the way.
Venezuelan Carlos Mendoza crossing the Mexico-US border river Rio Grande to seek asylum in the United States.
Open format category, a Ukrainian was chosen as the winner Julia Kochetovan War Is Personal -project. The project includes photographs, poetry, sound clips and music, and an illustrator and a DJ have been involved in its implementation.
The project describes everyday life in Ukraine in the middle of the war.
The jury praises the project’s creative approach. The emotional images form a distinctive representation of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the panel finds.
A child with a Ukrainian flag in the village of Zelene, Kharkiv region, Ukraine.
A soldier of the 68th brigade in training in the Donetsk region near the front line.
Self-portrait taken by the photographer in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region on February 25, 2022, after Russia had just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Sources used: World Press Photothe British Broadcasting Corporation BBCWar Is Personal –project.