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The World Press Photo 2026 awards the images of the Galician forest fires

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Two women run with a bucket of water to help put out a forest fire in Carballeda de Avia. Orense, Galicia, Spain, August 17, 2025.
Two women run with a bucket of water to help put out a forest fire in Carballeda de Avia. Orense, Galicia, Spain, August 17, 2025. Brais Lorenzo / EFE, Revista 5W, El País
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Photographer Brais Lorenzo (Ourense, 1986) has been awarded a World Press Photo 2026 award in the Graphic Reportage category for the Europe region for his work Scorched Earth, about the forest fires in Galicia, where more than 200,000 hectares burned.

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