The winners of the World Press Photo 2022 were announced yesterday. The competition, in addition to the main prizes, included for the first time other awards, divided into seven geographical areas: Africa, North and Central America, Asia, Europe, Oceania, South America and Southeast Asia.
World Press Photo 2022 winners: the pictures
Wars, violence, destruction, but also births, hope, and ancient traditions: this is the reality showed by the winning works of the most important photojournalism contest in the world paint.
Photography of Amber Bracken for The New York Times. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Matthew Abbott for National Geographic/Panos Pictures. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Lalo de Almeida. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Isadora Romero. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Fatima Shbair, Getty Images. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Konstantinos Tsakalidis for Bloomberg News. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Sarah Reingewirtz for Los Angeles Daily News and Southern California News Group. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography of Vladimir Encina. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Amanuel Sileshi, Agence France-Presse. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Dar Yasin, The Associated Press. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Bram Janssen, The Associated Press. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography of Yael Martínez, Magnum Photos. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Viviana Peretti. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Rehab Eldalil. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Matthew Abbott. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Lalo de Almeida. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Senthil Kumaran. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Louie Palu. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Rijasolo. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
Photography by Faiz Abubakr Mohamed. Image courtesy of World Press Photo
View Article details
- Lucia Brandoli
- 08 April 2022
The World Press Photo of the Year was won by Canadian photographer Amber Bracken, with the photo “Kamloops Residential School”: red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside commemorate children who died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, in British Columbia, an institution created to assimilate Indigenous children, following the detection of as many as 215 unmarked graves.
The World Press Photo Long-Term Project was won by Brazilian photographer Lalo de Almeida, with “Amazonian Dystopia”, which shows the serious situation facing the Amazon rainforest due to the climate crisis and the deforestation policies of President Jair Bolsonaro.
The World Press Photo Story of the Year was won by Australian photographer Matthew Abbott, with “Saving Forest with Fire”, in which he tells the techniques used by Australians indigenous to remove with fire the accumulation of plant residues in the forests that could cause large fires.
The World Press Photo Open format went to Ecuadorian Isadora Romero, with “Blood is a Seed”, a video that talks about the disappearance of the seeds of some species and the loss of human ancestral knowledge.