World Press Photo Yearbook 2023

The World Press Photo 2023 hardcover book, shown at an angle on a white background. The book has a red spine with the title in white. The cover features a rotated photograph of a woman in a tan coat looking up at the camera amidst urban debris.

The back cover of a book with a black background, set against a white surface. The left half contains a block of white text in German. The right half features a dark, vertically oriented photograph with a strong red tint, showing several indistinct figures in a line as seen from above. At the bottom are a barcode and a website address.

An open book page with the German headline, Der Preis des Friedens in Afghanistan. Below the text is a nighttime photograph showing a group of women in blue burqas sitting on a dark sidewalk, begging for bread in front of a brightly lit bakery in Kabul.

An overhead shot of an open book on a white background. The page is in German, with the headline Der sterbende Fluss, and features a photograph of three beekeepers in full white protective suits standing in a desert landscape in front of beehives, surrounded by a swarm of bees.

An open photobook, shot from above against a white background, displays a two-page spread with German text. The right page features a large color photo of two men in military-style uniforms holding rifles on a rooftop overlooking a city. Below, a grid of four smaller photos shows a cat falling by a skyscraper, a person carrying another across a river, a brutalist architectural plaza, and the legs of riot police standing over a person on the ground.

The German-language table of contents for the World Press Photo 2023 publication. The main title is followed by columns listing regional and global prize winners. Headings like Regionale Preisträger*innen (Regional Prizewinners) are above lists for Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia and Oceania. Each section includes categories like Einzelfoto (Single Photo) and Fotoserie (Photo Series) with page numbers. The page number 11 is at the bottom.

A magazine page in German titled Neue Hauptstadt. A large photo shows a construction worker in a blue shirt shoveling sand on a vast, dusty plaza. In the background stands a monumental, light-colored building with a massive, curved colonnade under a clear blue sky. Other workers are visible in the distance.

A high-angle photograph shows a chaotic street scene where heavily armed police in full riot gear, some wielding batons, advance through a crowd. A Palestinian flag lies on the pavement in the middle of the confrontation.

A photo collage depicting life in Afghanistan. The largest photo shows two women examining a small, thin baby in a clinic. Four smaller photos below show armed guards at a snowy checkpoint, people in a makeshift camp, a young boy lifting his shirt to show his torso, and an armed soldier guarding men as they pray.

A page from a publication with German text at the top and a color photograph below. The photo shows a young woman with dark, uncovered hair sitting at a small outdoor table in a crowded public square. She wears a brown coat and looks at the camera. Behind her, other women dressed in traditional black chadors walk past.

A page from a publication with the German title Der Weg zur Klimaneutralität. The main photo shows a worker in a face mask and gloves harvesting green tomatoes from lush vines inside a modern greenhouse, which is bathed in the vibrant purple glow of overhead LED grow lights.

A three-photo collage of young Black artists. At the top, a man with dreadlocks sits in a black armchair in a room with photos taped to the wall. Below on the left, a woman with long pink hair squats in a pink outfit. On the right, a woman with braided hair leans against a red railing.

A black and white photograph on an article titled Ölpest in Lima shows three workers in oil-splattered hazmat suits and respirators. They are carefully walking over a dark, rocky shore next to a hazy sea during the cleanup of an environmental disaster.

A page from a publication showing three false-color infrared aerial photographs of flooded landscapes. The largest image at the top shows a long bridge crossing wide turquoise water, with all vegetation appearing in bright shades of red and pink. The two smaller images below show winding turquoise rivers and agricultural fields in the same surreal color palette.

A stark, wide-angle view from the surface of a massive glacier, where a meltwater stream carves a channel through the dirty ice and snow in the foreground. In the distance, towering snow-covered mountains rise against a heavy, overcast sky.

A mixed-media collage with a black-and-white line drawing of a landscape. A figure in a headscarf sits reading under a large tree, with hills, a sun, and birds in the sky. In the center, a torn, vertical color photograph of a young man in a white shirt and plaid sarong is superimposed over the drawing. German text is printed along the left margin.

A page from a publication in German. The centered title at the top reads Globale Jury, with a small world map graphic above it and a byline for Brent Lewis, the jury chair. The main body of text is formatted in two columns on a white background, with the page number 218 in the bottom left corner.

A webpage layout in German showing headshots of global award winners and jury members. On the left, under the heading Globale Preisträger*innen, are portraits of Evgeniy Maloletka, Mads Nissen, Anush Babajanyan, and Mohamed Mahdy. On the right, under Globale Jury, are portraits of Brent Lewis, Angela Jimu, Hideko Kataoka, Kateryna Radchenko, Tomás Ayuso, Felipe Dana, and Maika Elan, listed with their names and roles.

A collage on a white background featuring photographs, letters, and an envelope. At the top left is a close-up portrait of an older man with a weathered face. At the bottom right, a young man floats in the water. Handwritten letters in Arabic and English are scattered across the page, along with an envelope from Hong Kong addressed to Egypt.

The cover of World Press Photo 2023 shows a young woman in a tan coat sitting at a yellow table in a public square, looking directly at the camera while surrounded by a crowd that includes women wearing black chadors.

World Press Photo Yearbook 2023

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Edited by: World Press Photo Foundation

July 2023, 224 Pages, 255 Photos

Ebook - PDF (56,4 MB)

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5588-7

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Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo Contest has set the standard in visual journalism. The 2023 Yearbook showcases the most striking press photographs and compelling reports from 2022, carefully selected from thousands of entries by six regional and one global jury of acclaimed independent professionals. Providing a diversity of perspectives from all over the world, the awarded works bear witness to the events that shaped this past year, and document in long-term projects the ongoing issues we face. Recognizing the importance of photojournalism and documentary photography at a time, when the truth is contested, the awarded images share courageous stories and present invaluable insights― from warzones, the struggle for civil rights and political empowerment, to the visible impact of the climate crisis, which could be felt in 2022 more acutely than ever.

For six decades, the WORLD PRESS PHOTO FOUNDATION has been working from its home in Amsterdam as an independent, non-profit organization. To provide truly global perspectives, the foundation launched a new regional strategy in 2022. From January to March 2023 six regional and one global jury will decide on 24 regional and 4 global winners.

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