World Press Photo Yearbook 2023

A table of contents page from the World Press Photo 2023 publication, written in French. The page features the title at the top, followed by four columns. Three columns detail the Regional Winners (Lauréats Régionaux) organized by continent: Africa, Europe, South America, Asia, North & Central America, and Southeast Asia & Oceania. The fourth column lists the Global Winners (Lauréats Mondiaux), including Photo of the Year. Each entry is paired with its corresponding page number.

A magazine page with the French headline Nouvelle Capitale. The main photo shows construction workers on a large, paved plaza in front of a monumental, neo-classical building with a large colonnade. In the foreground, a worker in a blue shirt mixes cement with a shovel.

An overhead, slightly blurred photograph shows a group of police officers in full tactical riot gear, including helmets and vests, moving through a street. Some officers are armed with rifles and batons. A Palestinian flag lies on the pavement in the middle of the procession.

A nighttime photograph from Kabul shows a group of women and children in blue burqas sitting and begging on the sidewalk in front of a brightly lit bakery. Inside the shop, which is filled with bread, a man stands at the counter. The image is part of a French-language article titled Le prix de la paix en Afghanistan.

A photo collage from Afghanistan in 2022 depicting the country's crises. The top image shows a malnourished baby being examined. Below are four smaller images: Taliban guards at a snowy checkpoint, a family cooking in a refugee camp, a boy showing a scar from selling his kidney, and an armed soldier guarding a mosque during prayer.

A magazine page with French text above a color photograph of a young Iranian woman with dark hair, wearing a long brown coat. She sits unveiled at a yellow table in a busy public square, looking directly at the camera. In the background, several women dressed in black chadors walk past, creating a stark contrast.

A worker wearing a face mask and hairnet harvests tomatoes from lush green vines in a high-tech greenhouse. The entire scene is bathed in the bright pink and purple glow of overhead LED grow lights, illustrating modern and sustainable agriculture.

A full-page magazine spread titled La rivière mourante. The main photo shows three beekeepers in white protective suits and veiled helmets standing in a dry, dusty landscape. They are surrounded by white beehive boxes and a large swarm of bees fills the air around them.

A page layout with three color photographs of young Black drill artists. The large top photo shows rapper B-Lovee sitting in a black armchair in a room with photos taped to the wall. Below are two smaller photos: on the left, Kenzo B with long pink hair crouches outside, and on the right, Young Devyn leans against an orange railing.

A black and white photo shows three workers in oil-stained protective suits and respirators walking along a rocky, slick shoreline. They are part of a cleanup crew responding to an oil spill, with the sea visible in the hazy background.

A photo collage depicting scenes from Venezuela. The main image at the top shows two members of the Bolivarian militia with rifles overlooking a city. Below are four smaller photos showing a view of urban high-rises, a man carrying another person across a river under a bridge, two people in a decaying concrete complex, and riot police standing over a man on the ground.

A page layout featuring three aerial, false-color infrared photographs of flooded areas. In the large top image, a bridge crosses a vast turquoise body of water, with surrounding vegetation appearing bright pink. Two smaller images below show meandering turquoise rivers flowing through a patchwork of red and pink agricultural fields and landscapes.

A vast, rugged glacier stretches towards a formidable mountain range under a cloudy sky. In the foreground, a channel of meltwater cuts through the textured surface of snow and dirty ice. The distant mountains are covered in snow, with some dark, rocky peaks visible.

A mixed-media collage by Mohamed Mahdy. A black-and-white line drawing of a landscape shows a person in a hijab reading under a large tree on the left and a sun rising over hills on the right. In the center, a torn, vertical color photograph of a young man in a plaid skirt and white shirt is inserted, creating a window into another reality.

A page from a publication in French, titled Jury mondial. Below a small graphic of a world map, the text identifies Brent Lewis as the President of the World Jury. The main body of the page consists of several paragraphs of text arranged in two columns, which is a statement from the jury of the World Press Photo contest.

A page in French showing headshots of people in two columns. On the left, under the heading Lauréats mondiaux, are four winners: Evgeniy Maloletka, Mads Nissen, Anush Babajanyan, and Mohamed Mahdy. On the right, under the heading Jury mondial, are seven jury members: Brent Lewis, Angela Jimu, Hideko Kataoka, Kateryna Radchenko, Tomás Ayuso, Felipe Dana, and Maika Elan.

The cover of World Press Photo 2023, featuring a young woman in a tan coat sitting at a table in a crowded public space, looking directly at the camera while other people, including women in chadors, are in the background.

World Press Photo Yearbook 2023

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Edited by: World Press Photo Foundation

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French

May 2023, 224 Pages, 255 Photos

Hardcover

196mm x 252mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5512-2

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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.

The yearbook is also available in English and German.

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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