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Gulf News
17-04-2025
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- Gulf News
See the Winners of the 2025 World Press Photo Contest
The contest received over 59,000 entries from 3,778 photographers across 141 countries Last updated: 1/12 World Press Photo of the Year Finalist: Chinese migrants warm themselves under a cold rain after crossing the US-Mexico border in Campo, California. Photo by John Moore 2/12 World Press Photo of the Year Finalist: Droughts in the Amazon- A young man brings food to his mother, who lives in Manacapuru, Amazonas, Brazil. The village was once accessible by boat, but because of the drought, he must walk two kilometres along the dry riverbed of the Solimões River to reach her. Musuk Nolte 3/12 Long-Term Projects: Life and Death in a Country Without Constitutional Rights by Carlos Barrera, El Salvador, El Faro, NPR. Carlos Barrera 4/12 Singles: Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump by Jabin Botsford, United States, for The Washington Post. 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. Jabin Botsford 5/12 Beyond the Trenches by Florian Bachmeier, Germany. Anhelina (6), who is traumatized and suffers panic attacks after having to flee her village, lies in bed in her new home, in Borshchivka, Ukraine. Florian Bachmeier 6/12 Bodybuilder Tamale Safalu trains in front of his home in Kampala, Uganda. Marijn Fidder, 7/12 A kolbar follows an arduous mountainpath. Kolbars' packs can weigh around 50 kg, and crossings take an average of eight to 12 hours. Kurdistan, Iran. Ebrahim Alipoor 8/12 A man sprays alcohol toward long-tailed macaques to keep them from stealing goods near Phra Prang Sam Yot temple, a monkey hotspot in Lopburi, Thailand. Chalinee Thirasupa 9/12 Residents carry their belongings as the river swells, in Ilagan City, Isabela, northern Philippines, following heavy rains from Typhoon Toraji. The typhoon knocked down trees, caused power outages, and blocked roads with debris, complicating relief efforts. Noel Celis 10/12 A Boeing 727-200 still surrounded by floodwaters weeks after the flood at Salgado Filho International Airport in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Anselmo Cunha 11/12 People glance anxiously upwards during an Israeli drone strike, as they take refuge away from buildings in Beirut's Dahiyeh neighborhood, Lebanon. Jets and drones often fly at low altitudes, causing fear and distress. Murat Şengül 12/12 People vandalize a statue of former Bangladesh president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who had resigned following weeks of unrest, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Suvra Kanti Das
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
World Press Photo jury apologises for combining photo of Ukrainian girl with Russian soldier
The International Jury and World Press Photo have apologised for combining two works into one visual pair: Underground Field Hospital by Nanna Heitmann and Beyond the Trenches by Florian Bachmeier. Source: a letter in response to an inquiry from Detector Media, a Ukrainian media organisation Details: German photographer Florian Bachmeier captured six-year-old Anhelina from Kharkiv Oblast, who suffers from panic attacks after surviving a Russian bombardment. The work, titled Beyond the Trenches, has, in Bachmeier's view, become the emotional centre of the European bloc. In contrast, German photographer Nanna Heitmann presented a photograph titled Underground Field Hospital, which depicts a wounded militant from the Russian-backed "Donetsk People's Republic" terror organisation who fought alongside Russian forces. "There is an obvious difference between a child suffering from the aftermath of war and the torment of a soldier from the occupying forces who causes this suffering," World Press Photo noted. "We should not have presented these two photographs as a pair, as doing so implies they should be viewed and understood only in relation to one another. This creates an overly simplistic and false equivalence, overshadowing the unique stories each of them tells. These images, in fact, highlight just two aspects of Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine," said Lucy Conticello, the head of the international jury. Meanwhile, the jury has decided not to revoke the prize awarded to Mikhail Tereshchenko, a photographer for the Russian news agency TASS, a key part of the Russian propaganda machine. However, they have pledged to refine the rules and procedures for handling applications from photographers working for government agencies. They plan to consult with photographers from countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, as well as those from nations with repressive regimes, who often strive to produce "good work" under challenging conditions. In the letter, the World Press Photo judges explained that each entry is judged anonymously, with jury members unaware of the photographers' identities or affiliations. In later rounds of judging, only limited information, such as the nationality and gender of the photographer, is provided. Background: The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPF) has condemned the results of the World Press Photo 2025 international competition. They stressed that the association had been "surprised" by the choice of the winners and demanded that standards of ethics, impartiality and transparency be observed: "By rewarding Russian photographers who serve as expressors of the state ideology of the Russian Federation, the competition makes the position of the aggressor visible, and thus contributes to the substitution of concepts: instead of condemning the aggressor, it emphasises sympathy for him." The announcement of the winners sparked immediate and heated discussions within the community. Ukrainian photo commentators – Serhii Korovainyi, Yuliia Kochetova and Vlada Liberova – also reacted to the list of winners. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
