Winners of the 2025 World Press Photo Contest (20 photos)
The winning entries of this year’s World Press Photo Contest have just been announced. This year, according to organizers, 59,320 images were submitted for judging, made by 3,778 photographers. World Press Photo was once more kind enough to share some of this year’s global and regional winners, gathered below. To receive an email notification every time new photo stories are published, sign up here. South America, Singles—Aircraft on Flooded Tarmac: An aircraft sits on the flooded tarmac at Porto Alegre–Salgado Filho International Airport, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on May 20, 2024. From April to June 2024, record-breaking rainfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, led to the worst flood in the area’s history. More than half a million people were displaced, and more than 183 died in the floods. According to scientists, climate change—driven primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, including those used in passenger air travel—almost certainly intensified the floods. In the larger context of the global climate crisis, this image of a plane suspended between sky and water becomes a foreboding symbol. ( Anselmo Cunha / Agence France-Presse)
The winning entries of this year’s World Press Photo Contest have just been announced. This year, according to organizers, 59,320 images were submitted for judging, made by 3,778 photographers. World Press Photo was once more kind enough to share some of this year’s global and regional winners, gathered below.
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