World Press Photo 2025: Award Winners Unveiled
"Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine." Mahmoud Ajjour, who was injured during an Israeli attack on Gaza City in March 2024, finds refuge and medical help in Doha, Qatar, on June 28, 2024. Winner, World Press Photo of the Year. Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times/World Press Photo
"Night Crossing." Chinese migrants warm themselves during a cold rain after crossing the US–Mexico border in Campo, California, on March 7, 2024. Finalist, World Press Photo of the Year./World Press Photo
"Droughts in the Amazon." A young man brings food to his mother who lives in the village of Manacapuru. The village was once accessible by boat, but because of the drought, he must walk two Kilometers along the dry riverbed of the Solimoes River to reach her, in Amazonas, Brazil, on October 5, 2024. Finalist, World Press Photo of the Year. Musuk Nolte/Panos Pictures/Bertha Foundation/World Press Photo
"Life Won't Stop." The groom poses for a portrait at his wedding in Omdurman, Sudan, on January 12, 2024. In Sudan, announcing a wedding with celebratory gunfire is a tradition. Regional winner, Africa. Mosab Abushama/World Press Photo
"Gabriel Medina during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games." Brazil's Gabriel Medina bursts out triumphantly from a large wave in the fifth heat of round three of men's surfing, during the 2024 Olympic Games in Teahupo'o, Tahiti, French Polynesia, on July 29, 2024. Regional winner, Asia Pacific and Oceania. Jerome Brouillet/AFP/World Press Photo
"Kenya's Youth Uprising." Protesters chant slogans and push a makeshift barricade as they clash with Kenyan police officers during an anti-government demonstration in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 2, 2024. Regional winner, Africa. Luis Tato/AFP/World Press Photo
"Women's Bodies as Battlefields." Yohanna, 22, resting next to her mother after she received treatment for complications arising from kidney removal. Shot by Eritrean police at the border, she woke up at a hospital where she learned that one of her kidneys had been removed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 31, 2017. Regional winner, Africa. Cinzia Canneri/Association Camille Lepage/World Press Photo
"Four Storms, Ten Days." A man wades through a street flooded by heavy rains from Typhoon Toraij in Ilagan City, Isabela, northern Philippines, on November 12, 2024. Four consecutive cyclones, three of which developed into typhoons, hit the Philippines in a matter of days in late October and early November 2024. Regional winner, Asia Pacific and Oceania. Noel Celis/AP/World Press Photo
"Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump." Members of the United States Secret Service help Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump off stage moments after a bullet from an attempted assassin hit his ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, on July 13, 2024. Regional winner, North and Central America. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/World Press Photo
"Te Urewera, The Living Ancestor of Tūhoe People." Children from the Teepa family drive the younger siblings home, after a swim in the river. Tūhoe children are taught independence and to care for other family members in Ruatoki, New Zealand, on January 27, 2022. Regional winner, Asia Pacific and Oceania. Tatsiana Chypsanava/Pulitzer Center/New Zealand Geographic/World Press Photo
"Beyond the Trenches." Anhelina, 6, is traumatized and suffers panic attacks after having to flee her village near Kupiansk (a frontline city in Russia's invasion of Ukraine). She now lives with her grandmother in Borshchivka, 95 kilometers from Kupiansk. Anhelina is pictured in her new home in Borshchivka, Ukraine, on March 7, 2024. Regional winner, Europe. Florian Bachmeier/World Press Photo
"Life and Death in a Country Without Constitutional Rights." A group of arrested people awaits entrance to Ilopango jail in Ilopango, San Salvador, El Salvador, on September 27, 2022. El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and prisoners face harsh conditions. Regional winner, South America. Carlos Barrera/El Faro/NPR/World Press Photo
"Aircraft on Flooded Tarmac." A stranded Boeing 727-200 surrounded by floodwaters at Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on May 20, 2024. Between April and June 2024, record-breaking rainfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, led to the worst flood in the area's history. Regional winner, South America. Anselmo Cunha/AFP/World Press Photo
"Jaidë." María Camila, Luisa, and Noraisi Birry, members of the indigenous Emberá Dobida community, stand by the grave of their sister Yadira, while wearing the paruma shawls Yadira left behind in Chocó, Colombia, on June 20, 2024. Yadira Birry, 16, took her own life with a paruma on April 7, 2023. Regional winner, South America. Santiago Mesa/World Press Photo
"Paths of Desperate Hope." Luis Miguel Arias takes a break with his daughter Melissa as they climb a hill in the Darién Gap, a 100-kilometer-long stretch of dense jungle connecting Colombia and Panama, on September 23, 2022. They are from Venezuela and joined the over 250,000 migrants who traversed the gap in 2022. Regional winner, South America. Federico Ríos/World Press Photo
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