Every World Press Photo of the Year (2000–2025)
The top 3 according to 747 votes from people: 2000: Claus Bjørn Larsen · 2001: Lara Jo Regan · 2003: Eric Grigorian. (Updated Jan 7, 2026.)
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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Top 26
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2000: Claus Bjørn Larsen
Denmark. Kosovo War: a wounded Kosovar Albanian refugee in Kukës, Albania.
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2001: Lara Jo Regan
United States. Immigration to the US: a Mexican immigrant works to feed her children.
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2003: Eric Grigorian
Armenia / United States. The 2002 Iran earthquake: a boy holds the trousers of his dead father.
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2004: Jean-Marc Bouju
France. Iraq War: a hooded Iraqi prisoner comforts his son.
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2002: Erik Refner
Denmark. Afghan refugees: the body of a boy is prepared for burial in Jalozai camp.
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2006: Finbarr O'Reilly
Canada. Niger food crisis: a mother and child at an emergency centre in Tahoua.
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2007: Spencer Platt
United States. Lebanon War: young Lebanese in a convertible amid the rubble of south Beirut.
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2011: Jodi Bieber
South Africa. Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan woman disfigured as punishment for fleeing her husband's house.
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2008: Tim Hetherington
United Kingdom. Afghanistan War: an exhausted American soldier leans against a wall.
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2005: Arko Datta
India. Indian Ocean tsunami: a woman mourns a relative in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu.
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2010: Pietro Masturzo
Italy. 2009 Iranian election: a woman shouts in protest from a Tehran rooftop.
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2013: Paul Hansen
Sweden. Gaza: the funeral of two children killed in an Israeli strike.
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2014: John Stanmeyer
United States. Migrants on the shore of Djibouti raise their phones to catch a signal from Somalia.
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2016: Warren Richardson
Australia. Migrant crisis: a man passes a baby under barbed wire on the Serbia–Hungary border.
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2009: Anthony Suau
United States. Subprime crisis: an armed officer moves through a home after an eviction.
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2015: Mads Nissen
Denmark. A gay couple in an intimate moment, on LGBT life in Russia.
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2023: Evgeniy Maloletka
Ukraine. Mariupol: a pregnant woman wounded in the shelling of a maternity hospital is carried away.
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2012: Samuel Aranda
Spain. Arab Spring in Yemen: a woman holds a wounded relative in a Sanaa mosque.
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2019: John Moore
United States. A Honduran toddler cries as her mother is detained at the Texas border.
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2018: Ronaldo Schemidt
Venezuela. Protests in Caracas: a demonstrator engulfed in flames.
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2020: Yasuyoshi Chiba
Japan. Sudan: a young man recites protest poems lit by mobile phones during a blackout in Khartoum.
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2021: Mads Nissen
Denmark. Pandemic: "The First Embrace", Rosa's first hug in five months at a Brazilian care home.
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2022: Amber Bracken
Canada. Children's clothing hung on crosses for the children who died at the Kamloops residential school.
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2024: Mohammed Salem
Palestine. Gaza: a woman holds the body of her niece, killed in a strike in Khan Younis.
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2017: Burhan Özbilici
Turkey. The assassination of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara.
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2025: Samar Abu Elouf
Palestine. Gaza: nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both arms in an Israeli strike.
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Comments (4)
La de Yasuyoshi Chiba en Jartum me parece de las más bonitas de toda la lista, todos esos móviles iluminándolo.
el primer abrazo de mads nissen me hizo llorar en su dia
Qué orgullo lo de Samuel Aranda en 2012
¿Se pueden ver en algún sitio todas las fotos en grande? En la web oficial no encuentro las antiguas