From September 19th to December 8th, 2025, the 68th edition of the World Press Photo Award, featuring the winning photographs, is on display at the Accademia Albertina in Turin.
The photos on display depict the most relevant news stories of the previous year.
This year, the winning photo once again focuses on Gaza.
This year’s photo denounces the devastating impact on the future of children maimed by war. Today, Gaza is the place with the highest percentage of maimed children per capita in the world.
“The global jury commented that this photograph of a young Gazan boy, Mahmoud, speaks to the long-term costs of war, the silences that perpetuate violence, and the role of journalism in exposing these realities. Without shying away from the corporeal impacts of war, the photo approaches conflict and statelessness from a human angle, shedding light on the physical and psychological traumas civilians have been forced to, and will continue to endure through industrial scale killing and warfare.”
INFORMATION
See the site>>>
and the facebook page>>>
Paid entry
the winning photo on the cover: Mahmoud Ajjour, 9 years old, mutilated by an Israeli attack in March 2024. Photo by Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times.
——
THE WORLD PRESS PHOTO FOUNDATION
Founded in 1955 and based in Amsterdam, the World Press Photo Foundation is one of the largest independent and non-profit organizations committed to protecting the freedom of information, inquiry and expression, promoting quality photojournalism worldwide.
The World Press Photo Foundation organizes the world’s most prestigious photo-report contest every year, which usually sees the participation of over 6,000 photojournalists from major world publications such as Reuters, AP, The New York Times, Le Monde, and El Paìs.
The contest represents and gathers the highest standards of topical photography in the winning photo of the year, the “World Press Photo of The Year”.
Over the years some of the images awarded with this title have become iconic, others have set trends, and others have influenced photojournalism so much that they have changed its style and dictated its standards.
NOTE – Here is the 2024 winning photo, “A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece,” by Mohammed Salem, Reuters. It shows Inas Abu Maamar (36) holding the body of her niece Saly (5), who was killed, along with four other family members, when an Israeli missile hit their home in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 17, 2023. The photographer describes this photo, taken a few days after his wife gave birth, as a “powerful and sad moment that sums up the broader meaning of what is happening in the Gaza Strip.” He found Inas crouched on the ground, embracing the little girl, at the Nasser Hospital morgue, where residents were searching for missing relatives.
AND AFTER THE EXHIBITION?
See a selection of what else you can do or see in the region>>>
