The Joop Swart Masterclass returns in 2024! 📸 Launched in 1994, the Joop Swart Masterclass is World Press Photo’s best-known and most esteemed educa...

We are currently sharing work by 2024 World Press Photo Contest jury member Elyor Nematov on our Instagram feed. Elyor Nematov is a documentary phot...

The World Press Photo Foundation believes in the power of showing and the importance of seeing high-quality visual stories. Our annual contest recog...

A crowd awaits the start of the Pyongyang Marathon at the Kim Il-sung Stadium, while an official guards the exit, in Pyongyang, North Korea on 9 April...

Our special exhibition ‘Resilience - stories of women inspiring change’ is now on display at the Institut français d'Egypte à Alexandrie until 21 Febr...

We’re thrilled to have renewed our strategic partnership with the Dutch Postcode Lottery (Postcode Loterij)! Thanks to their ongoing support, we work...

Discover the 2023 World Press Photo Contest winning photographs and stories by 30 photographers from 23 countries in our annual collectible publicatio...

Abrahaley Minasbo (22), a trained dancer and survivor of the Mai Kadra massacre carried out during the Tigray war, shows his wounds in a shelter in Ha...

In 2016 the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased sharply after experiencing a decline in the previous years. The Amazon rainfores...

What stories mattered in a particular year and why? What voices dominated the contest, and whose voices were excluded? What does photographing someone...

Coming soon to the end of its global tour, the World Press Photo Exhibition 2023 can still be seen at a number of locations. Don’t miss your last chan...

How can photography-based mixed media contribute to our understanding of a story? In his web-based project 'Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me,' Mohamed M...

“In this story, what I think made it was the editing by the photographer to include a specific look at the students that were involved in the protest....

We’re currently sharing work by Erika Piñeros, a multimedia journalist, documentary photographer and 2024 World Press Photo Contest jury member for So...

The 2024 World Press Photo Contest Africa jury has finished making their selection of entries! Hosted by our regional partner, The Market Photo Work...

From the daily lives of people in Afghanistan to the impact of the climate crisis on alpacas in Peru and a community of older LGBTQI+ people supportin...

The World Press Photo Foundation is pleased to announce our strategic partnership with FUJIFILM Corporation (Fujifilm Global). This partnership will...

We’ve been sharing work by Iranian photojournalist and 2024 World Press Photo Contest jury member Yalda Moaiery on our Instagram account. Yalda has...

The World Press Photo Yearbook 2023, our annual collectible publication, features the award-winning photographs and stories from the 66th annual World...

In 1905, around 1,000 Koreans arrived in Mexico aboard the SS Ilford. They had departed an impoverished country and were promised future prosperity, b...