Press photo of the year

The choice for the press photo of the year is made through the World Press Photo Awards awarded by the Dutch foundation World Press Photo . The prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, is considered to be the “most prestigious and coveted award in photojournalism ”.

Awarding

In addition to the press photo of the year, the 13-member jury awards three further prizes in ten categories (spot news, general news, people in the news, sport & action, sports reports, current topics, everyday life, portraits, art and entertainment, nature), whereby both the best single pictures and photo series are awarded.

The main prize goes to the picture that “[...] not only represents the photojournalistic embodiment of the year, but also shows a topic, situation or event of high journalistic importance and this in a way that demonstrates an extraordinary degree of visual perception and creativity proves ".

The five photographers Kyōichi Sawada , David Turnley , James Nachtwey , Anthony Suau and Mads Nissen each won the award twice.

For the 2015 election, the foundation applied "for the first time [...] very strict standards," said the head of the foundation. In no previous election has the jury disqualified so many images. Of the submissions that made it to the penultimate round, the foundation was able to prove that one fifth had post-processed image manipulation.

List of press photos of the year

The following list contains all the winners of the press photo of the year and information on the respective images. In the year of the competition, the press photos from the previous year are always awarded.

Year of admission	photographer	country	medium	Image title	theme	motive	Web link
1955	Mogens of Haven	Denmark			Motorsport	Volk Mølle Racetrack in Randers , Denmark on August 28, 1955. A motorcyclist falls during a competition.	picture
1956	Helmuth Pirath	Germany	Keystone Press	Late comers	Coming home from the war	Years later, a returnees from the Second World War meets his now 12-year-old daughter who has not seen her father since she was one year old.	picture
1957	Douglas Martin	United States	The Charlotte News / The Associated Press		Racial segregation in America	Accompanied by violence, one of the first African American students ( Dorothy Counts ) enters Harry Harding High School, where segregation is no longer practiced.	picture
1958	Stanislav Tereba	Czechoslovakia	Vecernik Praha	Brankář a voda	Soccer	During the soccer match between the teams Sparta Praha and Červená Hvězda Bratislava , Sparta goalkeeper Miroslav Čtvrtníček stands in the pouring rain on the soccer field.	picture
1959	No competition held.
1960	Yasushi Nagao	Japan	Mainichi Shimbun		attack	The 17-year-old right-wing extremist student Otoya Yamaguchi killed the socialist politician Asanuma Inejirō with a sword during a speech in Tokyo's Hibiya Hall on October 12, 1960 .	picture
1961	No competition held.
1962	Héctor Rondón Lovera	Venezuela	La República	Aid from the Padre	Uprising in Venezuela	During an uprising by the Venezuelan guerrilla organization Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional in the port city of Puerto Cabello , a dying soldier loyal to the government clings to the priest Luis Padillo as bullets hit the area.	picture
1963	Malcolm W. Browne	United States	The Associated Press	The Burning Monk	Buddhist crisis	The Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death to protest against the suppression of Buddhists in Vietnam by the government under President Ngô Đình Diệm . This triggered the Buddhist crisis.	picture
1964	Don McCullin	United Kingdom	The Observer / Quick / Life		Cyprus conflict	A Turkish woman mourns the loss of her husband, who died in 1964 during fighting between Turks and Greeks.	picture
1965	Kyōichi Sawada	Japan	United Press International	Flee to Safety	Vietnam War	A mother and her children wade through a river in Loc Thuong in the South Vietnamese province of Bình Định to escape a US bombing raid.	picture
1966	Kyōichi Sawada	Japan	United Press International	Dusty Death	Vietnam War	American troops drag on February 24, 1966 the body of a dead Vietcong -Soldaten behind their M113 - armored transport to the funeral.	picture
1967	Co Rentmeester	Netherlands	Life		Vietnam War	The commander of an M48 Patton looks through his eyepiece . It was the first color photo to receive an award.	picture
1968	Eddie Adams	United States	The Associated Press	Saigon Execution	Vietnam War	The South Vietnamese police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executed the Viet Cong member Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968 on the street in Saigon with a shot in the head.	picture
1969	Hanns-Jörg Anders	Germany	star	Belfast, 1969	Northern Ireland Conflict	An Irish Catholic with a gas mask is standing in front of a wall with the graffiti inscription we want peace after tear gas was used in street fights with British troops .	picture
1970	No competition held.
1971	Wolfgang Peter Geller	Germany	Hamburger Abendblatt	Bank robbery in Saarbrücken	Bank robbery	After a bank robbery in Saarbrücken , the main culprit Kurt Vicenik is shot in Baltersweiler during negotiations between police officers and bank robbers.	picture
1972	Nick Út	Vietnam	The Associated Press	The Terror of War	Vietnam War	The young Phan Thị Kim Phúc and other children flee with severe burns caused by napalm from the location mistakenly bombed by South Vietnamese planes.	picture
1973	Orlando Lagos	Chile	The New York Times	Allende's Last Stand	1973 coup in Chile	The democratically elected President Salvador Allende shortly before his death on September 11, 1973 in the La Moneda presidential palace during the military coup by General Pinochet .	picture
1974	Ovie Carter	United States	Chicago Tribune		Famine in the Sahel , in Niger	A toddler suffers during the dry season in the African state of Niger.	picture
1975	Stanley Forman	United States	Boston Herald American	Fire Escape Collapse	fire	During a fire in a Boston home, the fire escape collapses and a woman and child fall into the depths. The woman dies at the scene of the accident.	picture
1976	Françoise Demulder	France	gamma		Lebanese civil war	A group of Palestinians who fled the civil war in Beirut in January 1976 .	picture
1977	Leslie Hammond	South Africa	The Argus		apartheid	The South African police shot tear gas at a group of demonstrators in Modderdam near Cape Town .	picture
1978	Sadayuki Mikami	Japan	The Associated Press		Tokyo Narita Airport	After many years of popular protests against the construction of Tokyo Narita Airport, protesters and the police broke out on March 26, 1978.	picture
1979	David Burnett	United States	Contact Press Images		Disempowerment of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia	A woman holds her child in her arms in a refugee camp in Sa Keo on the Thai - Cambodian border in November 1979 .	picture
1980	Mike Wells	United Kingdom			Famine in Karamoja , Uganda	The hand of a starving African boy in the hand of a well-fed white missionary, taken in Uganda in April 1980.	picture
1981	Manuel Perez Barriopedro	Spain	Agencia EFE		23-F -Putsch in Madrid	On February 23, 1981, Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero spoke to the detained government and MPs in the Spanish Parliament, gun in hand.	picture
1982	Robin Moyer	United States	Black Star / Time		Lebanon War 1982	Bodies of Palestinians killed by Christian-Lebanese Falange militias on September 18, 1982 during the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila .	picture
1983	Mustafa Bozdemir	Turkey	Hürriyet Gazetesi		Earthquake in Turkey	Kezban Özer finds the bodies of their five children who died in the earthquake on October 30, 1983 near Erzurum and Kars .	picture
1984	Pablo Bartholomew	India	gamma		Bhopal disaster	The body of a child who was killed in the chemical disaster at a plant of the US chemical company Union Carbide Corporation.	picture
1985	Frank Fournier	France	Contact Press Images	The Agony of Omayra Sánchez	Omayra Sánchez	Sánchez, a victim of the Armero volcanic disaster , died after 60 hours of being trapped in a mud hole.	picture
1986	Alon Reininger	Israel / United States	Contact Press Images	Ken Meeks, Patient with AIDS, Being Cared for by a Friend, San Francisco, California	AIDS	The American Kenneth "Ken" Meeks, who is suffering from the immunodeficiency disease AIDS, is sitting in a wheelchair. Numerous lesions caused by Kaposi's sarcoma can be seen on his arms .	picture
1987	Anthony Suau	United States	Black Star		Elections in South Korea	A desperate mother leans against the shields of deployed police officers in the South Korean city of Kuro and asks for mercy for her son, who was arrested during a demonstration. After the elections in November 1987, protests against the government broke out on charges of electoral fraud .	picture
1988	David Turnley	United States	Detroit Free Press / Black Star		1988 Spitak earthquake	Boris Abgarzian mourns the loss of his 17-year-old son, a victim of the Armenian earthquake.	picture
1989	Charlie Cole	United States	Newsweek		Tian'anmen massacre	A protester later named " Tank Man " stops a group of battle tanks during the massacre on Tiananmen Square in Beijing .	picture
1990	Georges Merillon	France	gamma		Kosovo conflict	A family mourns the deathbed of Elshani Nashim, who was killed during a protest for an independent Kosovo.	picture
1991	David Turnley	United States	Detroit Free Press / Black Star		Second Gulf War	US Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz mourns his comrade Andy Alaniz who was killed by " friendly fire ".	picture
1992	James Nachtwey	United States	Magnum Photos / Liberation		Famine in Somalia	A Somali mother lifts the body of her child who has died of malnutrition.	picture
1993	Larry Towell	Canada	Magnum Photos		Palestinian Territories	Palestinian children raise their toy guns in the air.	picture
1994	James Nachtwey	United States	Magnum Photos / Time	Survivor of Hutu death camp. Rwanda, 1994	Genocide in Rwanda	A Hutu who was mutilated by the Interahamwe Hutu militia and suspected of supporting the Tutsi .	picture
1995	Lucian Perkins	United States	The Washington Post		Chechnya war	A boy fleeing the fighting in Grozny looks out the back window of a refugee bus.	picture
1996	Francesco Zizola	Italy	Contrasto		Civil War in Angola	Landmine victims play in the Angolan city of Kuito .	picture
1997	Hocine	Algeria	Agence France-Presse		Algerian civil war	A woman mourns the victims of a massacre in Bentalha in front of the “Zmirli Hospital” .	picture
1998	Dayna Smith	United States	The Washington Post		Kosovo conflict	Relatives and friends comfort the widow of a UÇK fighter who was killed on patrol the day before .	picture
1999	Claus Bjørn Larsen	Denmark	Berlingske Tidende		Kosovo war	A wounded Kosovar Albanian runs through the Kukës Strait .	picture
2000	Lara Jo Regan	United States	Life		Immigration to the USA	A Mexican immigrant works to feed her children.	picture
2001	Erik Refner	Denmark	Berlingske Tidende		Refugee disaster is in Afghanistan	The body of a dead Afghan boy is being prepared for burial in the Jalozai refugee camp .	picture
2002	Eric Grigorian	Armenia / United States	Polaris Images		Earthquake in Iran	A young Iranian holds the trousers of his dead father, who is buried after the earthquake on June 23, 2002.	picture
2003	Jean-Marc Bouju	France	The Associated Press		Iraq war	An Iraqi prisoner of war with a sack over his head comforts his son in a reception camp.	picture
2004	Arko Datta	India	Reuters		2004 Indian Ocean earthquake	A desperate Indian woman weeps for her dead relatives two days after the devastating tsunami .	picture
2005	Finbarr O'Reilly	Canada	Reuters		Hunger crisis in Niger in 2005	A mother and child wait for food at an emergency center in Tahoua .	picture
2006	Spencer Platt	United States	Getty Images		Lebanon War 2006	Five young Lebanese drive a convertible through the rubble of bombed Beirut .	picture
2007	Tim Hetherington	United Kingdom	Vanity Fair		War in Afghanistan	An exhausted US soldier leans against a bunker wall and holds a protective hand in front of his eyes.	picture
2008	Anthony Suau	United States	Time		Financial crisis from 2007	The American police officer Robert Kole checks whether a evacuated house in Cleveland has actually been abandoned.	picture
2009	Pietro Masturzo	Italy			Protests after the Iranian presidential election	Young women on a rooftop in Tehran protest against the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .	picture
2010	Jodi Bieber	South Africa			Women's rights under the Taliban	Portrait of the mutilated Afghan woman Bibi Aisha (18) with her nose cut off.	picture
2011	Samuel Aranda	Spain	The New York Times	A woman protects her son	Arabic spring	A veiled Yemeni woman holds a relative who was injured during the protests in a mosque in Sanaa .	picture
2012	Paul Hansen	Sweden	Dagens Nyheter	Gaza Burial	Gaza Strip	A crowd carries two dead children who were killed in an Israeli rocket attack on Gaza .	picture
2013	John Stanmeyer	United States	VII / National Geographic	signal	Refugees in Djibouti	African refugees hold their mobile phones in the air on the night beach in the capital Djibouti to receive reception so that they can speak to their families.	picture
2014	Mads nits	Denmark	Berlingske / Scanpix	Jon and Alex	LGBT in Russia	The photo shows a gay couple in an intimate moment and reminds of the aggravated living conditions of the LGBT minorities in Russia.	picture
2015	Warren Richardson	Australia		Hope for a New Life	Refugee Crisis in Europe	The photo shows refugees crossing the border from Serbia to Hungary near Röszke .	picture
2016	Burhan Ozbilici	Turkey		An Assassination in Turkey	Assassination attempt on Andrei Karlow	The Turkish assassin Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, shortly after he shot and fatally wounded the Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov during a photo exhibition in Ankara .	picture
2017	Ronaldo Schemidt	Venezuela	Agence France-Presse	Venezuela Crisis	Protests against the Venezuelan government	A Venezuelan government opponent is on fire after clashes with security forces.	picture
2018	John Moore	United States	Getty Images	Crying Girl on the Border	Migration stretch from Central America to the border between Mexico and the United States	A crying toddler whose mother is being checked by US border guards before they are both about to be taken into custody.	picture
2019	Yasuyoshi Chiba	Japan	Agence France-Presse	Straight voice	Military coup and government formation in Sudan	A young Sudanese who recites protest poems during a night power failure in the capital Khartoum is surrounded by numerous people who illuminate him with their mobile phones and chant slogans to restore civil rule.	picture
2020	Mads nits	Denmark	Politiken / Panos Pictures	The First Embrace	COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil	For the first time in five months, the 85-year-old resident of a nursing home in São Paulo is hugged again. After no visits were allowed due to the corona pandemic, a “hugging curtain” was installed.	picture

literature

• David Levi Strauss: Between the Eyes. Essays on Photography and Politics. With photographs by: Miguel Rio Branco, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Leon Golub, Hannah Villiger, Francesca Woodman, Ania Bien, Alfredo Jaar, Jim Goldberg, Bobby Neel Adams, Joel-Peter Witkin, Sebastiao Salgado. 200 pages. Aperture 2005.

Web links

• worldpressphoto.org - official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This picture has everything at focus.de, accessed on January 13, 2013
2. ^ World Press Photo. February 22, 2013, accessed March 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ USC Annenberg | World Press Photo returns to USC Annenberg. March 5, 2009, accessed April 19, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Director of the “World Press Photo” competition is “shocked” by the massive amount of image manipulation , Spiegel Online, February 20, 2015.
5. ↑ Andrea Diener: The best press photos of the year . In: faz.net, April 16, 2020; accessed on April 17, 2020.
6. ↑ A corona-compliant hug - that's the World Press Photo 2021 , Der Spiegel, April 15, 2021 (accessed April 15, 2021).

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