Climate, community, impacts of war: 2023 World Press Photo Contest winners announced
Camille Fine, USA TODAY
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The climate crisis, community, war’s impact on civilians, and the importance of press photography were highlighted by this year’s World Press Photo Contest global winners.
The four global winners announced Thursday — selected from 24 regional winners, which were chosen from more than 60,000 entries — “represent the best photos and stories from the most important and urgent topics of 2022,” New York Times photo editor and Global jury chair Brent Lewis said.
“They also help to continue the tradition of what it is possible to do with photography, and how photography helps us to see the universality of the human condition,” added Lewis, also a co-founder of Diversify Photo.
The photo of the year was unanimously chosen to go to Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, who documented a 32-year-old injured pregnant woman, Iryna Kalinina, while on assignment for the Associated Press during the siege of Mariupol amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Maloletka took a harrowing photograph of Kalinina while she was being carried from a maternity hospital that was deliberately targeted by Russia. The attacks resulted in three deaths and some 17 injuries, an OSCE report concluded.
"I think it is really important that specifically a Ukrainian won the contest showing the atrocities against civilians by Russian forces in Ukraine," he said. "It is important that all the pictures we were doing in Mariupol became evidence of a war crime against Ukrainians,” Maloletka told the Associated Press.
Kalinina, whose baby named Miron was stillborn, died.
“With the vote being decided on the first anniversary of the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the jury mentioned the power of the image and the story behind it, as well as the atrocities it shows. The death of both the pregnant woman and her child summarized so much of the war, as well as the possible intent of Russia,” Lewis said.
Danish photographer Mads Nissen, a two-time World Press Photo winner, won Photo Story of the Year for his series for Politiken and Panos Pictures, titled "The Price of Peace in Afghanistan," about daily life in Afghanistan in 2022.
Armenian photographer Anush Babajanyan won the Long-Term Project award for "Battered Waters" for VII Photo and National Geographic Society.
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