"Despite having come in previous years, being able to enjoy it alone and with the pleasant and interesting explanations of Sílvia Omedes, director of the Photographic Social Vision Foundation, has made this visit a very good experience, even exciting at times," commented one of the members of the ARA Premium Club After the massive guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition, which was hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona until Sunday, December 14th. It is abouta splendid display of the best of photojournalism, which collects "unofficial" stories and images from around the world, such as the one published by Washington Post, after the attack (or alleged attack) on Donald Trump, in which he appears not with his fist raised –it is the photo that most media showed– but with a worried face.

The Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) is hosting the World Press Photo 2025 exhibition from this Friday until December 14. This year's winner is Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf, who captured the effects of war on the fragile body of young Mahmouds, who was disabled. The award recognizes a professional who defied her circumstances to become a photographer and who has already amassed a considerable collection of international awards.

Palestinian 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.

Until 2020, Dutch photojournalist Jasper Doest was used to spending little time at home. His work had taken him to portray Caribbean flamingos, Japanese macaques domesticated by tourism, the migratory passage of storks through the Iberian Peninsula and polar bears in the Arctic. But last year the pandemic broke out and Doest, like the vast majority of the world's population, was forced to stay in his family home in the Dutch town of Vlaardingen. Specialising in photographing wildlife, Doest had parked his camera until a pair of pigeons appeared on the balcony of the flat where he lives with his wife and daughter. "They visited us every day to remind us that we humans are not alone on this planet", says the photographer, who immortalided them in a series of images in which the animals star in the most surreal situations: on a record player, with their heads inside a wastepaper basket and inside a pan (with the fire turned off).