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Scoop
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Global Winners Just Announced For Prestigious World Press Photo Contest, Exhibition Returning To Auckland This July
Press Release – Elephant Publicity Rotary Club of Auckland presents World Press Photo Exhibition Saturday 26 July – Sunday 24 August, Auckland The internationally acclaimed World Press Photo Exhibition returns to Auckland later this year, showcasing the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography from around the globe. The exhibition, which presents the winning photographs of the prestigious annual World Press Photo Contest, will head to Tāmaki Makaurau thanks to the Rotary Club of Auckland, from 26 July – 24 August at Level 1, Smith and Caughey's Building. Presented in more than 60 cities each year, the World Press Photo Exhibition 2025 invites viewers to step outside the news cycle and think critically about important topics in our world. Key themes range from politics, gender, migration, to conflict and the climate crisis. This year New Zealand is well represented at the World Press Photo Contest. For the first time ever a New Zealander was appointed as a judge. Julia Durkin MZNM – Founder and CEO of Auckland Festival of Photography – served on the judging panel for the Asia Pacific & Oceania regional winners. Julia is available for interviews (full bio here). Nelson-based photographer Tatsiana Chypsana has also already been announced as the Asia-Pacific & Oceania – Long Term Projects winner, with her powerful series Te Urewera – The Living Ancestor of Tūhoe People. The 2025 global Photo of the Year winner and two runners up, which have just been announced, are: Photo of the Year Title: Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine © Samar Abu Elouf, for The New York Times Story: As his family fled an Israeli assault, Mahmoud turned back to urge others onward. An explosion severed one of his arms and mutilated the other. The family were evacuated to Qatar where, after medical treatment, Mahmoud is learning to use his feet to play games on his phone, write, and open doors. Aside from that, he needs special assistance for most daily activities, such as eating and dressing. Mahmoud's dream is simple: he wants to get prosthetics and live his life as any other child. The photographer, who is from Gaza and was herself evacuated in December 2023, lives in the same Doha apartment complex as Mahmoud in Qatar. She has bonded with families there, and documented some of the few badly wounded Gazans who made it out for treatment. Runner Up Title: Night Crossing © John Moore, Getty Images Story: Unauthorised immigration from China to the US has increased dramatically in recent years due to a host of factors, including China's struggling economy and financial losses after strict zero-COVID policies. Moreover, people are being influenced by video tutorials on how to get across the border, shown on Chinese social media platforms. This image, both otherworldly and intimate, depicts the complex realities of migration at the border, which is often flattened and politicized in public discourse in the United States. Runner Up Title: Droughts in the Amazon © Musuk Nolte, Panos Pictures, Bertha Foundation Story: The Amazon River is experiencing record low-water levels due to severe drought intensified by climate change. This ecological crisis threatens biodiversity, disrupts ecosystems, and impacts local communities reliant on rivers for survival. As droughts intensify, many settlers face the difficult choice of abandoning their land and livelihoods for urban areas, changing the social fabric of this region permanently. This project makes the effects of climate change, which can so often be abstract or difficult to represent, appear as a tangible and concrete reality shaping the futures of vulnerable communities closely connected with the natural world. The global winners were selected from 42 regional winners, which were chosen out of 59,320 entries from 3,778 photographers across 141 countries. They were judged first by six regional juries, and the winners were then chosen by an independent global jury consisting of the regional jury chairs plus the global jury chair. Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo Contest has been recognising and celebrating the best photojournalism and documentary photography. 2025 marks the 70th anniversary of World Press Photo. In addition to the winning photographs, this year's exhibition will include a special display of 70 years of World Press Photo. 70 years on the contest is increasingly globally representative with the inclusion of the Regional Contest (with six regions Africa; Asia-Pacific and Oceania; Europe; North and Central America; South America; West, Central, and South Asia), ensuring that exceptional news and documentary photography from every corner of the world would be recognised and awarded. Entries are judged and awarded in the region in which the photographs and stories are shot, rather than the nationality of the photographer. This year, 30 out of 42 regional winners were also local to the country where they photographed their project. World Press Photo Exhibition Auckland Dates: Saturday 26 July – Sunday 24 August Times: Sunday – Tuesday: 10.30am – 6pm. Wednesday – Saturday: 10.30am – 6.30PM Location: Level 1, Smith and Caughey's Building, Elliot St Entrance Tickets on sale soon The exhibition is also going to Wellington from Friday 5 September – Sunday 5 October 2025 and will be held at the Ground Floor: TAKINA Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre – next to Te Papa – National Museum of New Zealand.
Scoop
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Global Winners Just Announced For Prestigious World Press Photo Contest, Exhibition Returning To Auckland This July
Rotary Club of Auckland presents World Press Photo Exhibition Saturday 26 July - Sunday 24 August, Auckland The internationally acclaimed World Press Photo Exhibition returns to Auckland later this year, showcasing the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography from around the globe. The exhibition, which presents the winning photographs of the prestigious annual World Press Photo Contest, will head to Tāmaki Makaurau thanks to the Rotary Club of Auckland, from 26 July – 24 August at Level 1, Smith and Caughey's Building. Presented in more than 60 cities each year, the World Press Photo Exhibition 2025 invites viewers to step outside the news cycle and think critically about important topics in our world. Key themes range from politics, gender, migration, to conflict and the climate crisis. This year New Zealand is well represented at the World Press Photo Contest. For the first time ever a New Zealander was appointed as a judge. Julia Durkin MZNM – Founder and CEO of Auckland Festival of Photography – served on the judging panel for the Asia Pacific & Oceania regional winners. Julia is available for interviews (full bio here). Nelson-based photographer Tatsiana Chypsana has also already been announced as the Asia-Pacific & Oceania – Long Term Projects winner, with her powerful series Te Urewera – The Living Ancestor of Tūhoe People. The 2025 global Photo of the Year winner and two runners up, which have just been announced, are: Photo of the Year Title: Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine © Samar Abu Elouf, for The New York Times Story: As his family fled an Israeli assault, Mahmoud turned back to urge others onward. An explosion severed one of his arms and mutilated the other. The family were evacuated to Qatar where, after medical treatment, Mahmoud is learning to use his feet to play games on his phone, write, and open doors. Aside from that, he needs special assistance for most daily activities, such as eating and dressing. Mahmoud's dream is simple: he wants to get prosthetics and live his life as any other child. The photographer, who is from Gaza and was herself evacuated in December 2023, lives in the same Doha apartment complex as Mahmoud in Qatar. She has bonded with families there, and documented some of the few badly wounded Gazans who made it out for treatment. Runner Up © John Moore, Getty Images Story: Unauthorised immigration from China to the US has increased dramatically in recent years due to a host of factors, including China's struggling economy and financial losses after strict zero-COVID policies. Moreover, people are being influenced by video tutorials on how to get across the border, shown on Chinese social media platforms. This image, both otherworldly and intimate, depicts the complex realities of migration at the border, which is often flattened and politicized in public discourse in the United States. Runner Up Title: Droughts in the Amazon © Musuk Nolte, Panos Pictures, Bertha Foundation Story: The Amazon River is experiencing record low-water levels due to severe drought intensified by climate change. This ecological crisis threatens biodiversity, disrupts ecosystems, and impacts local communities reliant on rivers for survival. As droughts intensify, many settlers face the difficult choice of abandoning their land and livelihoods for urban areas, changing the social fabric of this region permanently. This project makes the effects of climate change, which can so often be abstract or difficult to represent, appear as a tangible and concrete reality shaping the futures of vulnerable communities closely connected with the natural world. The global winners were selected from 42 regional winners, which were chosen out of 59,320 entries from 3,778 photographers across 141 countries. They were judged first by six regional juries, and the winners were then chosen by an independent global jury consisting of the regional jury chairs plus the global jury chair. Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo Contest has been recognising and celebrating the best photojournalism and documentary photography. 2025 marks the 70th anniversary of World Press Photo. In addition to the winning photographs, this year's exhibition will include a special display of 70 years of World Press Photo. 70 years on the contest is increasingly globally representative with the inclusion of the Regional Contest (with six regions Africa; Asia-Pacific and Oceania; Europe; North and Central America; South America; West, Central, and South Asia), ensuring that exceptional news and documentary photography from every corner of the world would be recognised and awarded. Entries are judged and awarded in the region in which the photographs and stories are shot, rather than the nationality of the photographer. This year, 30 out of 42 regional winners were also local to the country where they photographed their project. World Press Photo Exhibition Auckland Dates: Saturday 26 July - Sunday 24 August Times: Sunday - Tuesday: 10.30am – 6pm. Wednesday – Saturday: 10.30am – 6.30PM Location: Level 1, Smith and Caughey's Building, Elliot St Entrance Tickets on sale soon The exhibition is also going to Wellington from Friday 5 September - Sunday 5 October 2025 and will be held at the Ground Floor: TAKINA Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre – next to Te Papa – National Museum of New Zealand.
The National
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Portrait of young Gazan amputee wins World Press Photo Contest
A portrait of a boy from Gaza whose arms were severed as a result of an Israeli bombing has won this year's World Press Photo Contest. Nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour was severely injured while trying to flee the attack in March last year. Taken by Samar Abu Elouf, who is also from Gaza, the photograph was originally published in The New York Times. 'When [Mahmoud] turned back to urge his family onward, an explosion severed one of his arms and mutilated the other,' the Amsterdam-based World Press Photo Foundation said. 'Mahmoud and his family were evacuated to Doha, Qatar, where, following medical treatment, he is now learning to play games on his phone, write and open doors with his feet.' Abu Elouf was evacuated in December 2023 and she now lives in Doha, Qatar. After the announcement of the winner, Joumana El Zein Khoury, executive director of World Press Photo, said: 'This is a quiet photo that speaks loudly. It tells the story of one boy, but also of a wider war that will have an impact for generations.' The winner was announced at the opening of the World Press Photo Exhibition 2025, at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This year 59,320 photographs, by 3,778 photographers from 141 countries were entered into the contest. The non-profit foundation was set up to 'champion the power of photojournalism and documentary photography to deepen understanding, promote dialogue and inspire action' and is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Finalists for the prize included several photos from the Middle East, including Murat Sengul's photo from Beirut and Samuel Nacar's photo from Syria. The former depicts a group of people in the Lebanese capital anxiously looking up to see rockets flying above them. The latter is of the infamous Palestine Intelligence Branch interrogation and detention centre in Syria. Last year's World Press Photo of the Year was Mohammed Salem's image of a Palestinian woman, Inas Abu Maamar, cradling the body of her five-year-old niece Saly in Khan Younis.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
World Press Photo announces 2025 winners: See striking images
The winners of the 2025 World Press Photo Contest have been announced, and the winning selection showcases some of the world's best photojournalism and documentary photography. Forty-two winners, nine more than last year's total of 33, were chosen from more than 59,000 entries received from 3,778 photographers from across 141 countries, World Press Photo said in a news release. Winners from the regions of Africa; Asia Pacific and Oceania; Europe; North and Central America; South America; and West, Central and South Asia were awarded across three categories: "Singles" (single frame photographs), "Stories" (between 4 and 10 single frame photographs), and "Long-term Projects" (between 4 and 10 single frame photographs). The singles and stories categories had three winners apiece, and one winner was named in the long-term project category. Selection was first done by six regional juries, and the final winners were then chosen by an independent global jury consisting of the regional jury chairs plus the global jury chair, the organization said. "Gathered from across 2024's fast changing political and media landscape, the photos invite viewers to step outside the news cycle and look more deeply at both prominent and less seen stories from across the world as well as look again at familiar events," the organization said. "These works show the power of authentic photojournalism and documentary photography - offering space for reflection in times of urgency through visual excellence and dedication to accuracy." Key themes from this year's winning selection range from politics, gender and migration, to conflict and the climate crisis. World Press Photo, now in its 70th year, said it is increasing the total number of winners from a total of 33 in 2024 to 42 this year. In the past three years, there has been one winning single and one winning story per region. However, from this year onwards, there will be three winners in each of these categories per region. "The world is not the same as it was in 1955 when World Press Photo was founded," Executive Director World Press Photo, Joumana El Zein Khoury said in a statement. "We live in a time when it is easier than ever to look away, to scroll past, to disengage. But these images do not let us do that." Khoury added the winning images "cut through the noise, forcing us to acknowledge what is unfolding, even when it is uncomfortable, even when it makes us question the world we live in - and our own role within it." The winning photographs and the stories behind them will be showcased in an exhibition that will travel across 60 locations around the world over this year, including London, Rome, Berlin, Mexico City, Montreal and Jakarta with "millions more" seeing the "winning stories online," the organization said. World Press Photo, on April 17, will also announce the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year winner and two finalists at the press opening of the Flagship World Press Photo Exhibition 2025 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. All winning photographers are eligible for the Photo of the Year award. Global jury chair Lucy Conticello said jury members "were looking for pictures that people can start conversations around." "We made our choices with an eye on the final mix," Conticello said. "As much as the World Press Photo Contest award is an immense recognition for photographers, often working under difficult circumstances, it is also a recap of the world's major events, however incomplete." Founded in the Netherlands in 1955, World Press Photo is a nonprofit organization that "champions the power of photojournalism and documentary photography to deepen understanding, promote dialog, and inspire action."Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at sshafiq@ and follow her on X and Instagram @saman_shafiq7. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Winners of the 2025 World Press Photo Contest: See striking images
