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 ...

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 ...

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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He has been documenting the refugee crisis around the world for over a decade. He is a National Geographic photographer and the founder of Everyday Refugees Foundation. As the former Associated Press ...

Carlos Barria is an Argentinian-Chilean senior photographer at Reuters, based in California. Born in Patagonia, Barria has spent more than 20 years with Reuters covering breaking news around the world ...

“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 ...

Gu Zheng is a professor in the School of Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He also works at the Center for Information and Communication Studies, and is the deputy director of the ...

"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 ...