Lu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in ...

She is also the curator of photography for PhEST in 2018, a festival of art on the Mediterranean in Monopoli, Italy. In 2014 she was appointed guest artistic director for DOCfield, the documentary ...

Tomasz Gudzowaty was born in 1971 and studied law at the University of Warsaw. He began his photographic career with nature photography, later turning to social documentary. For the past few years he ...

Andrew McConnell was born 1977 and began his career as a press photographer covering the closing stages of the conflict in Northern Ireland and the transition to peace. In 2004, he left press ...

Esther Horvath is a documentary photographer, Fellow at the International League of Conservation Photographers, member of The Photo Society and a science photographer for Alfred Wegener Institute, ...

The 2024 World Press Photo Contest works with 6 worldwide regions – Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia and Oceania. Entries will be judged in the region ...

The Japanese press photographer Sadayuki Mikami (Iwaki, Aomori prefecture, 1949) joined the Tokyo Bureau of The Associated Press in June 1969, first as a copy-boy and dark room operator, and later as ...

We’re proud to present the World Press Photo Yearbook 2024, our annual collectible publication presenting the award-winning photographs and stories of the 67th annual World Press Photo Contest.

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“Pushing cultural and societal boundaries, Amira Al-Sharif is a female visual storyteller that has been developing her voice in Yemen. Among others, making her way in a strongly male-dominated ...

"The four global winners represent the best photos and stories from the most important and urgent stories of 2022. They also help to continue the tradition of what it is possible to do with ...

The judging process of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest takes place in several rounds over a six-week period, in January and February 2024. It involves regional juries and a global jury, and takes ...