The World Press Photo frames the war, the climate crisis and the abandonment of those who suffer
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The World Press Photo (WPP) photography awards has chosen as the photo of the year An image captured by Ukrainian documentary filmmaker, photographer and journalist Evgeniy Maloletka in Mariupol, Ukraine, after an airstrike on a hospital maternity ward.
Irina Kalina, 32, is carried through the wreckage of the attack; the baby was stillborn, and her mother also passed away half an hour after the photo was taken.
He graphic report of the year It is made up of nine photographs by the Danish photographer Mads Niessen. As explained by WPP, the photographer “refuses to let us forget the people of Afghanistan who now live under the Taliban and without international aid.”
One of the images shows Jalil Ahmad, 15, whose parents decided to sell his kidney for 3,500 dollars in the face of starvation in the country under the Taliban regime.
The Long Term Project Award goes to Armenian photographer Anush Babajanyan, for her work over the years to highlight a little-known story from Central Asia: the water management consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union, made worse by the climate crisis.
The Open Format Award goes to Mohamed Mahdy, for his collaborative project with the residents of the Al Max neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt, to preserve the memory of a rapidly disappearing fishing village and connect it to the rest of the world through an interactive website.
The four global winners were selected from 24 regional winners, who were chosen from more than 60,000 still and multimedia images submitted by 3,752 entrants from 127 countries.
The president of the global jury is the photo editor of the New York Times and co-founder of Diversify Photo, Brent Lewis.
These stories, along with other winners, will be shown in an exhibition that will visit 60 cities, including Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Source: Eitb
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