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An annual compilation of the best journalistic photography from around the world.

The renowned World Press Photo Foundation, “Connecting the world to the stories that matter”, publishes a compilation of prize-winning press photographs each year. Carefully selected from thousands of entries, they present the most celebrated, powerful, moving, and often disturbing images from around the world, often putting a face on conflicts in far-flung places and reminding us of our shared humanity. The 2021 Yearbook, bringing together the best press photographs from 2020, will reflect the joy, anguish, and upheaval of this incredible year. "World Press Photo gives my photos the legs they need. They raise the voice of these images" Syrian Photographer – World Press Photo Awards 2019

Every year since 1958 an international jury has convened in the Netherlands under the auspices of the World Press Photo Foundation to choose the world's finest press photographs. Universally recognized as the definitive competition for photographic reportage, it has been described by former art director of The Sunday Times, Michael Rand, as "the international photographic contest." Publishing the results of the latest annual World Press Photo Contest, this exceptional book contains the very best press photographs from 2015-pictures submitted by photojournalists, picture agencies, newspapers, and magazines throughout the world. Selected from thousands, these prizewinning photos capture the most powerful, moving, and sometimes disturbing images of the year.

The renowned World Press Photo Foundation (“Connecting the world to the stories that matter”) publishes a compilation of prizewinning press photographs each year. Carefully selected from thousands of entries, they present the most celebrated, powerful, moving, and often disturbing images from around the world, often putting a face on conflicts in far-flung places and reminding us of our shared humanity. The 2022 Yearbook, bringing together the best press photographs from 2021, will reflect the joy, anguish, and upheaval of this incredible year.

Every year since 1955 an international jury has met in Holland under the auspices of the World Press Photo Foundation to choose the world's finest press photographs. Universally recognized as the definitive competition for photographic reporting, this was described by Michael Rand of The Sunday Times Magazine as "the International photographic contest". The pick of international visual reportage from 1992 some 150 pictures submitted by photojournalists, press agencies, newspapers and magazines throughout the world - is brought together for the The World Press Photo Competition 1993, the 36th contest in the series. Selected from over 15,000 images of the highest quality, taken by more than 1,500 photographers representing over 70 countries, each shot encapsulates one of the year's historic dramas. Showing all walks of life, portraying private happenings as well as headline news, they make up a mosaic of time on the wing.

Here are the winners of the World Press Photo contest for each year--the most striking, compelling, and sometimes disturbing stories of that year.

Jedes Jahr seit 1958 kommt eine internationale Jury in den Niederlanden unter der Schirmherrschaft der World Press Photo Foundation zusammen, um die besten Pressefotografien der Welt auszuwählen. Dieses außergewöhnliche Buch veröffentlicht die Ergebnisse des neuesten jährlichen World Press Photo Wettbewerbs und enthält die besten Pressefotografien aus dem Jahr 2015 – Bilder, die von Fotojournalisten, Bildagenturen, Zeitungen und Zeitschriften aus der ganzen Welt eingereicht wurden. Aus Tausenden ausgewählt, fangen diese preisgekrönten Fotos die kraftvollsten, bewegendsten und manchmal verstörenden Bilder des Jahres ein.

2018 Photo Contest: World Press Photo of the Year, Ronaldo Schemidt, Nominees for World Press Photo of the Year, Photo of the Year Nominee, Adam Ferguson.