Global winner
Ukrainian journalist Evgeniy Maloletka (AP) won the World Press Photo of the Year award with his photo of aid workers carrying an unconscious pregnant woman from a maternity hospital hit by a Russian airstrike during the siege of Mariupol.
Europe
Yana and Victor
PHOTOGRAPHER
Alkis Konstantinidis
Reuters
Consoled by her partner Yevgeniy Vlasenko and her
mother Lyubov, Yana Bachek (52) cries over the body of her father Victor Gubarev (79), killed while buying bread during the shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Asia
Shireen Abu Akleh’s Funeral
PHOTOGRAPHER
Maya Levin
AP
Israeli police beat mourners accompanying the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to her funeral, in East Jerusalem. Police prohibited people from carrying the coffin
on foot through the city, which is customary for notable deaths, as mourners chanted “We sacrifice our soul and blood for you, Shireen”.
According to World Press Photo Foundation director Joumana El Zein Khoury, millions of people worldwide will see these photos of death, despair, loss, and crisis.
My wish is that they also see what I see. The hope that through documentation there is a chance of justice and a better future, through remembering we honor what is lost, and through the courage and dedication of these photographers we are inspired.