Photo of the Day | From the #WPPh2024 Contest awarded project ‘Red Skies, Green Waters’ by Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, The New York Times, eloquently portraying the harmful impacts of industry on both the environment and the social fabric of Venezuela. See more: bit.ly/3QmX9Bm

Photo of the Day | Awarded in the #WPPh2024 Contest, ‘War Is Personal’ by Julia Kochetova is a multidisciplinary web-based project merging photojournalism & a personal documentary style of a diary showing what it is like to live war as an everyday reality: bit.ly/4b5Tjo0

World Press Photo & De Nieuw Kerk present ‘The Stories That Matter’ on 25 May-hear from the #WPPh2024 Contest winners, participate in workshops, & listen to talks by speakers including Farnoosh Farnia, A K W A S I - antonkarelwillemantonsimonisaak & Ramsey Nasr. Read more & book your ticket: worldpressphoto.org/calendar/2024/…

Photo of the Day | Lotomau Fiafia, a community elder, stands with his grandson John at the point where he remembers the shoreline used to be when he was a boy in Kioa Island, Fiji. The photo by Eddie Jim, The Age/The Sydney Morning Herald was awarded in the #WPPh2024 Contest: bit.ly/4dmNpRw

‘The Escape’ by Zied Ben Romdhane, Magnum Photos/@AFAC1/AIM LAB explores the lives of young Tunisians and aims to contribute to discussion on including them in a better future. Discover more about the project awarded in the #WPPh2024 Contest: worldpressphoto.org/collection/pho…

Photo of the Day | A broken window shown inside the Presidential Palace in Brasília, Brazil, on 8 January 2023. From ‘Insurrection’ by Gabriela Biló, for Folha de S.Paulo, awarded an honorable mention in the #WPPh2024 Contest. See more: bit.ly/3y0Jauo

Since 2016, the World Press Photo Foundation has partnered with WeTransfer's WePresent to amplify stories awarded in our photo contest. This year, they spoke with Zied Ben Romdhane, Rena Effendi, Naigong Wang, Eddie Jim, Mackenzie Calle, & Marco Garro:
wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/world-…

Photo of the Day | From the #WPPh2024 Contest awarded story ‘Saving the Monarchs’ by Jaime Rojo for National Geographic, documenting of citizens across North America joining forces to combat the decline of monarch butterflies in Canada, the US, and Mexico: bit.ly/3UeBX1o

After kickstarting its worldwide tour in #Amsterdam ’s De Nieuw Kerk, the #WPPh2024 Exhibition will be showing in #London , #Sevilla , #Rome , #Zürich , #Balingen , #Sydney , #MexicoCity , #Berlin , and more in the following weeks.

📆 See the calendar: worldpressphoto.org/calendar

Photo of the Day | A fisherman walks across the dry bed of a branch of the Amazon River, near the Porto Praia Indigenous Community. ‘Drought in the Amazon’ by Lalo de Almeida for Folha de S.Paulo was awarded in the #WPPh2024 Contest. Read more: bit.ly/4aMleK0

There are currently two vacancies at the World Press Photo Foundation!

We're looking for a Project Manager Contest and a Sales Manager Exhibitions to join our team in June.

Learn more and apply before 6 May: worldpressphoto.org/about-us/jobs

Photo of the Day | ‘Heartstrings’ by Kazuhiko Matsumura aims to uniquely visualize the social issues surrounding dementia in Japan as well as the inner lives of people with the condition and their relationships to their families and caretakers: bit.ly/3Qe7W0y #WPPh2024

The World Press Photo Yearbook 2024, our annual collectible publication showcasing the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography from the past year is now available to pre-order: worldpressphoto.org/yearbook

Photo of the Day | From the #WPPh2024 awarded ‘Looking for Satyrus’ by Rena Effendi, @viiphoto, @insidenatgeo, retracing the photographer’s father’s footsteps across the borderlands between Armenia and Azerbaijan in search of a rare butterfly species: bit.ly/4aMlEQm

Photo of the Day | ‘The Gay Space Agency’ by Mackenzie Calle is a web-based project that combines fiction with fact in order to confront the US space program’s historical exclusion of openly LGBTQI+ astronauts. Awarded in the #WPPh2024 Contest: bit.ly/4avZhPh

Watch the interviews with Lee-Ann Olwage, Julia Kochetova (Julia Kochetova) and Alejandro Cegarra, global winners of the #WPPh2024 Contest, on our YouTube Channel and uncover their thoughts on their awarded projects: bit.ly/3U73vWp

Photo of the Day | From the #WPPh2024 awarded ‘The Return of the Ancient Voices’ by Pablo E. Piovano, Greenpeace International Award, GEO Magazin National Geographic Society, an insight into the Mapuche communities and their battle against commercial degradation of the environment: bit.ly/4atBmQd

Photo of the Day | Mesut Hançer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, killed while asleep when her grandmother’s home collapsed during an earthquake in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, February 2023. By Adem Altan, AFP News Agency, awarded in the #WPPh2024 Contest: bit.ly/4aKG2Sh

Photo of the Day | Isle de Jean-Charles in Louisiana is sinking into the surrounding bayou due to erosion exacerbated by climate change and offshore oil drilling. See ‘ The First Climate Refugees of the United States’ by Sandra Mehl: bit.ly/4cVllUQ #WPPh2024

The global winners of the #WPPh2024 Contest were announced yesterday by our executive director, Joumana El Zein Khoury, at the press opening of the Flagship Exhibition 2024 at De Nieuw Kerk, Amsterdam.

The exhibition opens to the public today! Book tickets: worldpressphoto.org/calendar/2024/…