World Press Photo
2025
World Press Photo of the Year
Samar Abu Elouf - "Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine"
Africa - Singles
1 - Marijn Fidder
"Tamal Safalu"
Africa
2 - Mosab Abushama
"Life Won’t Stop"
Africa
3 - Temiloluwa Johnson
"Mother Moves, House Approves" .
Africa - Stories
1 - Aubin Mukoni
"The Lake Has Fallen Silent!
Africa
2 - Luis Tato
"Kenya’s Youth Uprising"
Africa
3 - Tommy Trenchard - The Elephant Whisperers of Livingstone
Africa - Long-Term Project Award
1 - Cinzia Canneri
"Women’s Bodies as Battlefields"
Asia - Singles
1 - Jae CHong
"Korea Adoption Fraud
Asia
2 - Jerome Brouillet
"Gabriel Medina During the Paris 2024 Olympic Games"
Asia
3 - Mas Agung Wilis Yudha Baskoro - "The Impact of Nickel Mining on Halmahera Island"
Asia - Stories
1 - Chalinee Thirasupa
"No More Monkey Mania in Thai Town"
Asia
2 - Noel Celis
"Four Storms, 12 Days"
Asia
3 - Ye Aung Thu
"A Nation in Conflict"
Asia - Long-Term Project Award
Tatsiana Chypsanava
"Te Urewera – The Living Ancestor of Tūhoe"
Europe - Singles
1 - Florian Bachmeier
"Beyond the Trenches"
Asia
2 - Nanna Heitmann
"Underground Field Hospital"
Asia
3 - Prins de Vos
"Mika"
Europe - Stories
1 - Maria Abranches
"Maria"
Europe
2 - Mikhail Tereshchenko
"Protests in Georgia"
Europe
3 - Rafael Heygster
"Democracy Dies in Darkness"
Europe - Long-Term Project Award
Aliona Kardash
"It Smells of Smoke at Home"
North & Central America - Singles
1 - Jabin Botsford
"Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump"
North and Central America
2 - John Moore
"Night Crossing"
North and Central America
3 - Philip Montgomery
"Constance Wynn II, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 2025"
North & Central America - Stories
1 - Clarens Siffroy
"Crisis in Haiti"
North and Central America
2 - Oliver Farshi
"A Place to Die"
North and Central America
3 - Rebecca Kiger
"A Town Derailed"
North & Central America
Long-Term Project Award
Carlos Barrera
"Life and Death in a Country Without Constitutional Rights"
South America - Singles
1 - Andre Coelho
"Botafogo Fans: Pride"
South America - Singles
2 - Anselmo Cunha
"Aircraft on Flooded Tarmac"
South America
3 - Gabriela Oráa
"The Last Hope"
South America - Stories
1 - Amanda Maciel Perobelli "Brazil’s Worst-Ever Floods"
South America
2 - Musuk Nolte
"Droughts in the Amazon"
South America
3 - Santiago Mesa
"Jaidë"
South America
Long-Term Project Award
Federico Ríos
"Paths of Desperate Hope"
West, Central, & South Asia
Singles
1 - Murat Şengül
"Drone Attacks in Beirut"
Southeast Asia and Oceania - Stories
2 - Samar Abu Elouf
"Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine"
Southeast Asia and Oceania - Singles
3 - Suvra Kanti Das
"The Canvas of Power"
West, Central, & South Asia Stories
1 - Ali Jadallah
"Gaza Under Israeli Attack"
Southeast Asia and Oceania
Long-Term Project Award -
2 - Kiana Hayeri
"No Woman’s Land"
Southeast Asia and Oceania
Sudeste de Asia y Oceanía
3 - Samuel Nacar
"The Shadows Already Have Names"
West, Central, & South Asia
Long-Term Project Award
Ebrahim Alipoor
"Bullets Have No Borders"
