World's best photojournalism revealed in World Press Photo winners
The World Press Photo Foundation has recently announced the results of the 63rd annual World Press Photo Contest. Winners have been revealed for World Press Photo of the Year, World Press Photo Story of the Year, along with the winners for each of the eight categories of the photo contest.
Japanese photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba has been named winner of the World Press Photo of the Year for his image, Straight Voice . The image shows a young man, illuminated by mobile phones, reciting protest poetry while demonstrators chant slogans calling for civilian rule, during a blackout in Khartoum, Sudan, on 19 June 2019.
Agence France-Presse’s (AFP) Chief Photographer for East Africa and Indian Ocean, Chiba is currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. He joined AFP in 2011. He described the winning photograph: “We see this young person, who is not shooting, who is not throwing a stone, but reciting a poem. It’s acknowledging, but also voicing a sense
Australian photographer, Chris McGrath, a photographer for Getty Images and 2020 jury member, said of the image: “It was just a really beautiful, quiet photograph that summed up all the unrest across the globe of people wanting change.”
WINNER: WORLD PRESS PHOTO STORY OF THE YEAR. © Romain Laurendeau, France. Kho, the Genesis of a Revolt. A young couple challenges a taboo as they kiss in a public space in Algiers, Algeria, on 8 December 2016. Romain Laurendeau has won the World Press Photo Story of the Year with Kho, the Genesis of a Revolt . The series tells the story of the deep unease of Algerian youth, who, by daring to challenge authority, inspired the rest of the population to join their action, giving birth to the largest protest movement in Algeria in decades. The French photographer has worked on long-term projects as a professional photographer in France, Senegal, Algeria, Palestinian territories, and Israel. Laurendeau was diagnosed with Keratoconus, a progressive eye disease that distorts the cornea. After a corneal transplant in 2009, he decided to travel extensively to document the human condition in all of its social, economic, and political aspects.
WINNER: WORLD PRESS PHOTO STORY OF THE YEAR. © Romain Laurendeau, France. Kho, the Genesis of a Revolt. Football fans sing during a championship match in the 5 July 1962 Stadium in Algiers, Algeria, Sabine Meyer, director of Photography for the National Audubon Society and 2020 jury member, said about the story: "We felt that the quality of the work itself, photographically, was quite flawless."
Almost 74,000 images were submitted by 4,282 photographers. Of the 44 winners announced, 30 have been recognized for the first time in the contest.
Follow this link to see all the nominees for World Press Photo of the Year and Photo Story of the Year.
Category winners
The prizes for the eight categories of the 2020 Photo Contest appear below.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES - FIRST PRIZE, SINGLES © Nikita Teryoshin, Russia. Nothing Personal - the Back Office of War. A businessman locks away a pair of anti-tank grenade launchers at the end of an exhibition day, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on 18 February. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES - SECOND PRIZE, SINGLES © Sean Davey, for Agence France-Presse. Bushfire Evacuation Center . Abigail Ferris (in mask) plays with friends at a temporary evacuation center in Bega, New South Wales, Australia, on 31 December. Abigail and her family had been evacuated from a nearby camping spot during bushfires on New Year’s Eve. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES - FIRST PRIZE, STORIES © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Italy, Contrasto, for The Washington Post . The Longest War . A Taliban fighter sits in a car in Khogyani, Afghanistan, on the morning of 11 December 2019. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES - SECOND PRIZE, STORIES © Steve Winter, for National Geographic. The Tigers Next Door. Hulk, a 12-week-old tiger cub, is petted by the McCabe family at the Ringling Animal Care Center, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, United States, on 2 September 2018. ENVIRONMENT - FIRST PRIZE, SINGLES © Esther Horvath, for The New York Times . Polar Bear and her Cub . A polar bear and her cub come close to equipment placed by scientists from Polarstern, a ship that is part of a scientific expedition investigating the consequences of Arctic climate change, in the central Arctic Ocean, on 10 October 2019. ENVIRONMENT - SECOND PRIZE, SINGLES © Noah Berger, United States, for Associated Press. Battling the Marsh Fire . Firefighters battle the Marsh Complex Fire, near the town of Brentwood, California, USA on 3 August. ENVIRONMENT - FIRST PRIZE, STORIES © Luca Locatelli, for National Geographic. The End of Trash - Circular Economy Solutions. Amager Bakke, a waste-to-energy plant that replaced an old coal incineration plant, near Copenhagen, Denmark, produces enough electricity to power at least 60,000 homes and heat 72,000. Advanced filtration technology reduces emissions of noxious nitrogen oxides to almost zero. 4 October 2019. ENVIRONMENT - SECOND PRIZE, STORIES © Maximilian Mann, DOCKS Collective. Fading Flamingos . A tourist takes a selfie at Lake Urmia, GENERAL NEWS - FIRST PRIZE, SINGLES © Yasuyoshi Chiba, Agence France-Presse. Straight Voice . A young man, illuminated by mobile phones, recites a poem while protestors chant slogans calling for civilian rule, during a blackout in Khartoum, Sudan, on 19 June. GENERAL NEWS - SECOND PRIZE, SINGLES © Alessio Mamo, for L’Espresso . Russian Mother and her Child at Al-Hol Refugee Camp. A Russian woman carries her child while queuing at a makeshift hospital in ‘The Annex’, at Al-Hol Refugee Camp in northern Syria, GENERAL NEWS - FIRST PRIZE, STORIES © Nicolas Asfouri, Agence France-Presse. Hong Kong Unrest . Riot police run towards protesters on GENERAL NEWS - SECOND PRIZE, STORIES © Fabio Bucciarelli, for L’Espresso. Chile: A Rebellion Against Neoliberalism. A police officer shoots tear gas LONG-TERM PROJECTS - FIRST PRIZE © Romain Laurendeau, France. Kho, the Genesis of a Revolt. A young couple challenges a taboo as they kiss in a public space in Algiers, Algeria, on 8 December 2016. LONG-TERM PROJECTS - SECOND PRIZE © Sabiha Çimen. Hafız: Guardians of the Qur’an. Asya plays with pet birds in her friend Hodja's room, at a Qur’an school in Rize, Turkey, on 7 July 2018. NATURE - FIRST PRIZE, SINGLES © Alain Schroeder. Final Farewell. The body of a month-old orangutan lies on a rescue team’s surgical drape, NATURE - SECOND PRIZE, SINGLES © Alejandro Prieto, Mexico. Roadrunner Approaching the Border Wall. A greater roadrunner approaches NATURE - FIRST PRIZE, STORIES © Alain Schroeder, for National Geographic . Saving Orangutans. Fahzren, a 30-year-old male orangutan, undergoes a routine medical check, at the SOCP Quarantine Centre, on 29 January 2019. He has spent most of his life in a zoo and lacks the skills to be returned to the wild. NATURE - SECOND PRIZE, STORIES © Brent Stirton, Getty Images, for National Geographic. Pangolins in Crisis. A man reaches for a pangolin PORTRAITS - FIRST PRIZE, SINGLES © Tomek Kaczor, Poland, for Duży Format, Gazeta Wyborcza. Awakening. A 15-year-old Armenian PORTRAITS - SECOND PRIZE, SINGLES © Lee-Ann Olwage. Black Drag Magic - Portrait of a Drag Artist and Activist. Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie, PORTRAITS - FIRST PRIZE, STORIES © Adam Ferguson, for The New York Times Magazine. The Haunted. Rezan (11), who was kidnapped by PORTRAITS - SECOND PRIZE, STORIES © Tatsiana Tkachova. Between Right and Shame. Natalia (62) was pregnant at the time of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Although the baby was born healthy, she didn’t dare risk another pregnancy as she feared the effects of radiation. She also felt she could not cope with two children, SPORTS - FIRST PRIZE, SINGLES
© Mark Blinch, for NBAE . Kawhi Leonard’s Game 7 Buzzer Beater. Kawhi Leonard (squatting, center) of the Toronto Raptors watches his game-winning buzzer-beater shot go into the net, while playing against the SPORTS - SECOND PRIZE, SINGLES © Silvia Izquierdo, Associated Press. Cheering the Goal . Fans of Brazil’s Flamengo football team SPORTS - FIRST PRIZE, STORIES © Wally Skalij, Los Angeles Times . Rise from the Ashes. Lukas Hartley (center) listens to a Paradise Bobcats SPORTS - SECOND PRIZE, STORIES © Olivier Papegnies. The Gouandé Gazelles. Bélassé Tchari (left), in Gouandé, Benin, gets up every morning SPOT NEWS - FIRST PRIZE, SINGLES © Farouk Batiche, Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Clash with the Police During an Anti-Government Demonstration. Students scuffle with riot police during an anti-government demonstration in Algiers, Algeria, on 21 May 2019. SPOT NEWS - SECOND PRIZE, SINGLES © Dai Kurokawa, European Pressphoto Agency. Nairobi DusitD2 Hotel Attack. Women are evacuated as security forces look out for perpetrators of an attack on the DusitD2 luxury hotel and business compound, SPOT NEWS - FIRST PRIZE, STORIES © Mulugeta Ayene, Associated Press. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Crash Site . A relative of a victim of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 throws dirt in her face as she grieves at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 14 March 2019. SPOT NEWS - SECOND PRIZE, STORIES © Matthew Abbott, Panos Pictures, for The New York Times . Australia’s Bushfire Crisis . Aluminum, which melts at 660.3℃, has streamed from a burning car in Conjola Park, a town where bushfires razed more than 89 properties, in New South Wales, Australia, on 31 December 2019.
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