The horror of Gaza in the body of a child, World Press Photo Award 2025
The Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture will host the exhibition of images from the event starting November 7.
BarcelonaPalestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf has won the prestigious World Press Photo 2025 award for her image depicting a child mutilated by an Israeli attack on Gaza. The work is titled Mahmoud Ajjour, nine years old and was published in New York TimesThis professional was evacuated from the Strip at the end of 2023 and currently resides in the same apartment complex in Doha where this child ended up, who was injured in March 2024 while fleeing an attack by the Israeli army. Palestine for treatment. The child explained that, while turning back to encourage his family to continue fleeing, an explosion severed his arms.
which will affect several generations."
The organizers also decided to name not one but two finalists for the first time. It is the American professional John Moore, for Crossing at night, a photograph about Chinese migration between Mexico and the United States, and the Mexican-Peruvian Musuk Nolte, in this case by Drought in the Amazon, a photograph that captures the paradoxical consequences of water scarcity in the world's largest tropical forest reserve. In the image, a young man brings supplies to his mother. Previously, he had to travel by small boat to cross the river, but now he must make the two-kilometer journey on foot through the completely barren riverbed.
These and other outstanding images will be on display at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona starting November 7th, in an exhibition organized—for the twenty-first consecutive year—by the Photographic Social Vision Foundation. The exhibition includes all the winning entries from the numerous categories of the competition.
The announcement of the winner and finalists, made this Thursday, thus completes the list of winners for this year's competition, following the announcement on March 27th of the recipients of the regional awards in each of the six regions of the planet into which the contest is divided. On that occasion, the Catalan photographer Samuel Nacar (Barcelona, 1992) won a prize for the West, Central and South Asia region, with The shadows already have a name, a project about survivors of Syrian prisons, infamous for their systematic torture, appeared in the magazine 5W.
Global Jury President Lucy Conticello, Director of Photography for M, the weekend magazine of Le Monde, explained the meaning of the verdict: "When the global jury began selecting the various contenders for Photograph of the Year, we had a broad selection from each of the six regions. From all the submissions, three themes emerged that define the 2025 edition of World Press Photo: something else as a story of change—mystory—climate change. community." The trio of winners, presented this Thursday, were chosen from among the 42 regional winners previously announced.