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Film Disputes Authorship of Iconic “Napalm Girl” Photo
After a documentary questioned its attribution, World Press Photo said today that it would no longer credit former AP photographer Nick Út for the Vietnam War image.
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Devastating Photo of Gaza Child Amputee Wins Top Global Award
Palestinian journalist Samar Abu Elouf earned the World Press Photo of the Year award for her image of nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both arms in an Israeli attack.
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Russian Photographer Disinvited From World Press Photo Ceremony
Georgian journalists argued that Mikhail Tereshchenko, a staffer for a Russian state-backed media outlet, should not have received the award for his photos of the Tbilisi protests.
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Heart-Wrenching Gaza Image Wins World Press Photo of the Year
Photojournalist Mohammed Salem captured a Palestinian woman embracing the body of her niece, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike.
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The Most Stirring Press Photographs of 2022
Photographs captured war-torn Ukraine, the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, and an Iranian woman defying the mandatory hijab law.
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World Press Photo Awards Highlight Indigenous Communities and Climate Disaster
The four global winners were chosen from 4,066 photographers who submitted over 64,000 images.
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Controversial Assassination Picture Wins 2017 World Press Photo Award [UPDATED]
This year's World Press Photo winners were selected from 80,408 images submitted by 5,034 photographers from 125 countries
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Amid the 2016 World Press Photo Contest Winners, a Focus on Refugees
A picture by Australian photographer Warren Richardson was crowned the World Press Photo of the Year 2015; it shows a man passing a baby through a barbed-wire fence at the Hungarian–Serbian border.
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World Press Photo Strips First Prize Winner for "Misleading Information"
Last Wednesday, World Press Photo (WPP) officially stripped photojournalist Giovanni Troilo of the First Prize in Contemporary Issues awarded to him in February for the 10-photo series The Dark Heart of Europe.
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A Snapshot of the 2015 World Press Photo Winners
The World Press Photo Contest 2015, this year culling from 97,912 images from 5,692 photographers representing 131 countries, announced its winners on February 12.
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A Brutal and Beautiful Planet: The 2014 World Press Photo Winners
The 2014 World Press Photo contest awardees were announced today, with the winners for the major photojournalism prize showing both the wonder and violence of the past year.