World Press Photo won by image of wounded pregnant woman in Mariupol

Evgeniy Maloletka's picture, Mariupol Maternity Hospital Airstrike, has been named World Press Photo of the Year.

Taken connected duty for the Associated Press, the representation shows Iryna Kalinina, a wounded large pistillate aged 32, being carried connected a stretcher, crossed debris from a maternity infirmary successful Mariupol, Ukraine, that was damaged during a Russian airstrike.

Her baby, named Miron aft the connection for "peace", was stillborn, and fractional an hr aboriginal Iryna besides died.

Ukrainian lensman Evgeniy Maloletka was 1 of the precise fewer photographers documenting events successful Mariupol astatine that time.

"We came to Mariupol conscionable 1 hr earlier the invasion," says Maloletka.

"For 20 days, we lived with paramedics successful the basement of the hospital, and successful shelters with mean citizens, trying to amusement the fearfulness Ukrainians were surviving with."

The World Press Photo recognises the champion photojournalism and documentary photography.

This year's winners were chosen from much than 60,000 entries by 3,752 photographers from 127 countries.

The Story of the Year, was awarded to Mads Nissen for a bid entitled The Price of Peace successful Afghanistan.

The bid depicts beingness successful Afghanistan nether the Taliban and a deficiency of planetary aid.

Unable to spend nutrient for the family, the parents of Khalil Ahmad, 15, decided to merchantability his kidney for US$3,500 (£2,800).

The deficiency of jobs and the menace of starvation has led to a melodramatic summation successful the amerciable organ trade.

The assemblage chose Battered Waters by Anush Babajanyan as the victor of the Long-Term Project Award.

The project, changeable for VII Photo and National Geographic Society, explores the interaction of h2o absorption aft the extremity of the Soviet Union which has been made worse by the clime crisis.

Babajanyan's work, spanning years, documents the resilience of radical surviving successful Central Asia.

"Water intertwines with their lives," explains the photographer.

"People's lives are besides changing due to the fact that the clime is changing, and they person to accommodate to that, too. I wanted to seizure this almighty spirit."

The Open format grant went to Mohamed Mahdy for Here, The Doors Don't Know Me - a task successful collaboration with residents of Al Max successful the Egyptian metropolis of Alexandria, to sphere the representation of their fast-disappearing sportfishing village.

The World Press Photo determination winners were besides announced, immoderate of which tin beryllium seen below, with captions from the competition.

Sugri Zenabu, a mangazia oregon pistillate assemblage person of the Gambaga "witch camp", sits encircled by residents successful Gambaga, Ghana.

Zenabu shows immoderate signs of disorder and representation nonaccomplishment associated with dementia.

Israeli constabulary clash with mourners carrying the coffin of slain Al Jazeera writer Shireen Abu Akleh during her ceremonial successful eastbound Jerusalem, 13 May 2022.

Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American newsman who covered the Mideast struggle for much than 25 years, was changeable dormant 2 days earlier during an Israeli subject raid successful the West Bank municipality of Jenin.

Yana Bachek, consoled by her spouse Yevgeniy Vlasenko and her parent Lyubov, cries implicit the assemblage of her begetter Victor Gubarev, 79, killed portion buying breadstuff during the Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine connected 18 April 2022.

Russian forces began advancing towards Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, arsenic soon arsenic their full-scale penetration began connected 24 February 2022.

Alfredo, Ubaldo, and Jose thin beehives adjacent Wenden successful the Arizona desert, USA.

A important alteration successful rainfall successful the country means that the men indispensable present supply h2o for the bees successful troughs.

This representation is portion of a broader task connected however the clime situation and expanding h2o request are affecting the Colorado River.

Workers woody with the biology catastrophe caused by an lipid spill astatine Repsol's adjacent La Pampilla refinery astatine Playa Cavero, Peru.

On 15 January, astir 12,000 barrels of crude lipid spilled into the oversea portion a tanker was unloading astatine the refinery.

Repsol, the Peruvian authorities and the Italian tanker institution each disputed the origin of the spillage, trading accusations of negligence, inadequacy of equipment, and mismanagement.

An accumulation of the winning photographs and stories from the 2023 contest, volition unfastened astatine De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam successful the Netherlands connected 22 April 2023

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