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2023 World Press Photo Contest global winners

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Introducing this year’s global winners – the World Press Photo of the Year, Story of the Year, Long-Term Project Award, and Open Format Award – highlighting the climate crisis, community, war’s impact on civilians, and the importance of press photography around the world.

The four global winners – Evgeniy Maloletka, Mads Nissen, Anush Babajanyan and Mohamed Mahdy – selected from the 24 regional winners, were chosen from more than 60,000 entries by the independent global jury.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photocontest/2023/global-winners?mc_cid=ad7a6625a4&mc_eid=b383c1b857

 

Photo of the Year
Mariupol Maternity Hospital Airstrike
Evgeniy Maloletka, Ukraine, Associated Press

Iryna Kalinina (32), an injured pregnant woman, is carried from a maternity hospital that was damaged during a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on 9 March 2022.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2023/Evgeniy-Maloletka-POY/1?mc_cid=ad7a6625a4&mc_eid=b383c1b857

 

Story of the Year
The Price of Peace in Afghanistan
Mads Nissen, Denmark, Politiken/Panos Pictures

Nine haunting but beautiful photos capturing the daily life of people living under Taliban rule across Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US and allied forces.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2023/Mads-Nissen-STOY/1?mc_cid=ad7a6625a4&mc_eid=b383c1b857

 

Long-Term Project Award
Battered Waters
Anush Babajanyan, Armenia, VII Photo/National Geographic Society

Documenting four landlocked Central Asian countries that are struggling with the climate crisis and lack of coordination over the water supplies they share.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2023/Anush-Babajanyan-LTPA/1?mc_cid=ad7a6625a4&mc_eid=b383c1b857

 

Open Format Award
Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me
Mohamed Mahdy, Egypt

A web-based project exploring the effects of rising seas on the local community in Al Max, a fishing village situated along the Mahmoudiyah canal in Alexandria, Egypt.

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2023/Mohamed-Mahdy-OPFA/1?mc_cid=ad7a6625a4&mc_eid=b383c1b857

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