🌍 Documenting some of the most pressing issues facing the world today, the 2024 World Press Photo Contest awarded photos and stories were selected by an independent jury from more than 61,000 entries. Watch the global jury explain why they picked each of the winning works.
The annual World Press Photo Contest, which recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year, works with a system that includes six regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia and Oceania. Entries are judged based on where the photographs and stories are shot.
The judging of the contest involves six regional juries and a global jury composed of the six regional jury chairs and one additional member, the global jury chair. The regional juries first make a selection of entries per category in their regions, after which the global jury decides on the winners.
Featured here, are the 2024 World Press Photo Contest global jury members:
* Africa jury chair: Nii Obodai, Ghana, photographer
* Asia acting jury chair: Elyor Nemat, Uzbekistan, documentary photographer, filmmaker, and graphic artist
* Europe jury chair: Anastasia Taylor-Lind, United Kingdom/Sweden, photojournalist
* North and Central America jury chair: John Minchillo, United States, staff photojournalist, the Associated Press
* South America jury chair: Julieta Escardó, Argentina, photographer, editor and educator
* Southeast Asia and Oceania jury chair: Veejay Villafranca, Philippines, photographer and lecturer
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📽️ Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Africa
00:58 - Africa, Singles: ‘Returning Home From War’ by Vincent Haiges, Republik, Real 21
01:51- Africa, Stories: ‘Valim-babena’ by Lee-Ann Olwage, for GEO
02:37 - Africa, Long-Term Projects: ‘The Escape’ by Zied Ben Romdhane, Magnum Photos, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, AIM LAB
03:36 - Africa, Open Format: ‘Adrift’ by Felipe Dana and Renata Brito, Associated Press
04:33 - Africa, Honorable Mention: ‘Survivors’ by Arlette Bashizi, for The Washington Post
05:05 - Asia
05:40 - Asia, Singles: ‘A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece’ by Mohammed Salem, Reuters
06:47 - Asia, Stories: ‘
Afghanistan on the Edge’ by Ebrahim Noroozi, Associated Press
07:46 - Asia, Long-Term Projects: ‘I Am Still With You’ by Wang Naigong
08:54 - Asia, Open Format: ‘Heartstrings’ by Kazuhiko Matsumura, for The Kyoto Shimbun
09:39 - Asia, Honorable Mention: ‘The Edge’ by Zishaan A Latif
10:18 - Europe
10:33 - Europe, Singles: ‘A Father’s Pain’ by Adem Altan, Agence France-Presse
11:22 - Europe, Stories: ‘Kakhovka Dam: Flood in a War Zone’ by Johanna Maria Fritz, Ostkreuz, for Die Zeit
12:15 - Europe, Long-Term Projects: ‘No Man’s Land’ by Daniel Chatard
13:15 - Europe, Open Format: ‘War Is Personal’ by Julia Kochetova,
14:29 - Europe, Honorable Mention: ‘Looking for Satyrus’ by Rena Effendi, VII Photo, National Geographic Society
15:14 - North and Central America
15:38 - North and Central America, Singles: ‘A Day in the Life of a Quebec Fire Crew’ by Charles-Frédérick Ouellet, for The Globe and Mail, CALQ
16:12 - North and Central America, Stories: ‘Saving the Monarchs’ by Jaime Rojo, for National Geographic
16:47 - North and Central America, Long-Term Projects: ‘The Two Walls’ by Alejandro Cegarra, The New York Times/Bloomberg
18:06 - North and Central America, Open Format: ‘The Gay Space Agency’ by Mackenzie Calle
19:14 - North and Central America, Honorable Mention: ‘The First Climate Refugees of the United States’ by Sandra Mehl
19:58 - South America
20:31 - South America, Singles: ‘Drought in the Amazon’ by Lalo de Almeida, for Folha de São Paulo
21:16 - South America, Stories: ‘Red Skies, Green Waters’ by Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, for The New York Times
22:12 - South America, Long-Term Projects: ‘Mapuche: The Return of the Ancient Voices’ by Pablo E. Piovano, Greenpeace Award, GEO, National Geographic Society
23:35 - South America, Open Format: ‘Silenced Crimes’ by Marco Garro, Pulitzer Center
24:36 - South America, Honorable Mention: ‘Insurrection’ by Gabriela Biló, for Folha de São Paulo
24:58 - Southeast Asia and Oceania
25:25 - Southeast Asia and Oceania, Singles: ‘Fighting, Not Sinking’ by Eddie Jim, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
26:08 - Southeast Asia and Oceania, Stories: ‘Battle for Sovereignty’ by Michael Varcas, for The Philippine Star
26:49 - Southeast Asia and Oceania, Long-Term Projects: ‘Revolution in Myanmar’ by Ta Mwe, Sacca Photo, VII Foundation, Frontline Club, W. Eugene Smith Grant
28:12 - Southeast Asia and Oceania, Open Format: ‘A Lost Place’ by Aletheia Casey
29:16 - Southeast Asia and Oceania, Honorable Mention: ‘Pollution in the Cileungsi River’ by Arie Basuki
📸 See all the winning photos and stories: https://www.worldpressphoto.org/