# Every World Press Photo of the Year (2000–2025)

The World Press Photo of the Year is photojournalism's most prestigious award. From the Kosovo war in 2000 to Gaza in 2025, by way of the Indian Ocean tsunami, the Arab Spring – with Spaniard Samuel Aranda's image in 2012 – and the pandemic: every winning photo since 2000, with its photographer and subject. Dane Mads Nissen has won it twice.

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- Jan 7, 2026 · poeta
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## Top 26

1. **2000: Claus Bjørn Larsen** (60 · ▲64 ▼4) — Denmark. Kosovo War: a wounded Kosovar Albanian refugee in Kukës, Albania.
2. **2001: Lara Jo Regan** (50 · ▲55 ▼5) — United States. Immigration to the US: a Mexican immigrant works to feed her children.
3. **2003: Eric Grigorian** (43 · ▲45 ▼2) — Armenia / United States. The 2002 Iran earthquake: a boy holds the trousers of his dead father.
4. **2004: Jean-Marc Bouju** (39 · ▲45 ▼6) — France. Iraq War: a hooded Iraqi prisoner comforts his son.
5. **2002: Erik Refner** (36 · ▲43 ▼7) — Denmark. Afghan refugees: the body of a boy is prepared for burial in Jalozai camp.
6. **2006: Finbarr O'Reilly** (27 · ▲29 ▼2) — Canada. Niger food crisis: a mother and child at an emergency centre in Tahoua.
7. **2007: Spencer Platt** (26 · ▲28 ▼2) — United States. Lebanon War: young Lebanese in a convertible amid the rubble of south Beirut.
8. **2011: Jodi Bieber** (24 · ▲28 ▼4) — South Africa. Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan woman disfigured as punishment for fleeing her husband's house.
9. **2008: Tim Hetherington** (23 · ▲27 ▼4) — United Kingdom. Afghanistan War: an exhausted American soldier leans against a wall.
10. **2005: Arko Datta** (22 · ▲27 ▼5) — India. Indian Ocean tsunami: a woman mourns a relative in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu.
11. **2010: Pietro Masturzo** (20 · ▲23 ▼3) — Italy. 2009 Iranian election: a woman shouts in protest from a Tehran rooftop.
12. **2013: Paul Hansen** (15 · ▲19 ▼4) — Sweden. Gaza: the funeral of two children killed in an Israeli strike.
13. **2014: John Stanmeyer** (14 · ▲21 ▼7) — United States. Migrants on the shore of Djibouti raise their phones to catch a signal from Somalia.
14. **2016: Warren Richardson** (14 · ▲19 ▼5) — Australia. Migrant crisis: a man passes a baby under barbed wire on the Serbia–Hungary border.
15. **2009: Anthony Suau** (13 · ▲17 ▼4) — United States. Subprime crisis: an armed officer moves through a home after an eviction.
16. **2015: Mads Nissen** (13 · ▲16 ▼3) — Denmark. A gay couple in an intimate moment, on LGBT life in Russia.
17. **2023: Evgeniy Maloletka** (13 · ▲16 ▼3) — Ukraine. Mariupol: a pregnant woman wounded in the shelling of a maternity hospital is carried away.
18. **2012: Samuel Aranda** (13 · ▲15 ▼2) — Spain. Arab Spring in Yemen: a woman holds a wounded relative in a Sanaa mosque.
19. **2019: John Moore** (12 · ▲17 ▼5) — United States. A Honduran toddler cries as her mother is detained at the Texas border.
20. **2018: Ronaldo Schemidt** (12 · ▲15 ▼3) — Venezuela. Protests in Caracas: a demonstrator engulfed in flames.
21. **2020: Yasuyoshi Chiba** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Japan. Sudan: a young man recites protest poems lit by mobile phones during a blackout in Khartoum.
22. **2021: Mads Nissen** (12 · ▲13 ▼1) — Denmark. Pandemic: "The First Embrace", Rosa's first hug in five months at a Brazilian care home.
23. **2022: Amber Bracken** (11 · ▲15 ▼4) — Canada. Children's clothing hung on crosses for the children who died at the Kamloops residential school.
24. **2024: Mohammed Salem** (10 · ▲15 ▼5) — Palestine. Gaza: a woman holds the body of her niece, killed in a strike in Khan Younis.
25. **2017: Burhan Özbilici** (8 · ▲15 ▼7) — Turkey. The assassination of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara.
26. **2025: Samar Abu Elouf** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Palestine. Gaza: nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both arms in an Israeli strike.

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