World Press Photothe most prestigious photo periodical competition in the world, today announced 42 regional winners from 6 regions of the world in its 3 current categories: Individual Photography, Graphic Reports and Projects at Largo Plaza. Next April 23, we will announce the World Press Photo of the Year, chosen from among the regional winners.
The competition honored three Spanish photographers: Brais Lorenzo (Ourense, 1986) has World Press Photo 2026 in the category Graphic report from the European regionwith Tierra quemadaproject about the forest fires in Galicia that burned more than 200,000 hectares in what was the worst fire season to engulf Spain in three decades.
Luis Tato (Ciudad Real) entered the category Graphic reportage from the African regionwith Generation Z protests in Madagascarthrough student protests in that country, motivated by a lack of public services, corruption and economic hardship.
Diego Ibarra Sanchez (Zaragoza, 1982) in the category A project in Largo Plazo in the West, Central and South Asia regionwith Further educationdocumenting in new countries how war-torn childhoods were deprived of the right to education.
Of course, what I got more than 57,000 photos from 141 countriesdistinguishes 42 projects in its regional categories, which represent, according to the legend, “an urgent portrait of the contemporary world”.
The student supports the banner adopted by Generation Z demonstrators around the world. The symbol comes from the Japanese manga One Piece, where pirates face corrupt rulers. Antananarivo, Madagascar, October 9, 2025. Photo: Luis Tato, AFP
The World Press Photo Fund recognized these submissions in regional categories for work that reflects the humanitarian drama in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, migration policy in the United States, the effects of climate change and the lives of marginalized communities for your survival and your needs.
Migration policy of the administration Donald Trump Carol Guzy seems to have documented this with ICE detentions in New York courts: masked agents arresting migrants on sight, young girls handcuffed to her detained father, and a married woman chased through a federal building.
“Este es a critical moment for democracy, for truth“, indicated President Jurado, Kira Pollackwho agreed that “the established photographers have lost their share, they’ve lost their permanence, and now it’s our turn to look at ourselves.”
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The work documents the aftermath of Israel’s military assaults on the Gaza Strip, something an independent UN commission has concluded amounts to “genocide,” the extreme to which Israel would go.
photographer Mohammed Saber NuraldinBorn in Gaza, he has been a lifelong documentarian in France since 1997 and, for the EPA, captured Palestinians carrying humanitarian aid trucks that entered Gaza during Israel’s tactical bomber standoff.
The girls attend an informal free school in Chaparhar district. The ban on young girls going to school continues to address the issue of education, which in some cases affects 2.2 million students. Afghanistan, November 12, 2025. Photo: Diego Ibarra Sánchez
Continuing to take pictures humanitarian collapse enclave where fewer than 1,373 people seeking food were welcomed at aid distribution sites between May and July 2025, according to the UN.
El reportaje de Saher Alghorra paragraph The New York Times complement this theme with images of building demolitions under bombardment, families fleeing to break the spell of Ramadan, and Palestinians engulfed in high flames.
Alghorra, also Palestinian, describes his work with a phrase that he says stands out: “Whenever my elder told me to stop, I couldn’t: silence would mean surrender.” More than 75% of Gazans continue to face high levels of hunger and malnutrition.
Ukraine
Ukraine also occupies a central place in the competition, four years after the beginning of Russian aggression.
Yevgeny Maloletkaof the Associated Press, entered the individual photo category in Europe with an image taken on April 24, 2025, in Kyiv, the same day Russia launched one of its deadliest attacks on the capital, scuppering peace talks. The photo shows a Valeria Syniuk65 years old, he left at the end of his ruined life.
por su parte David Guttenfelder prepared by para The New York TimesIt’s a drone war report that is reconfiguring the conflict.
His images run in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Colombia, Pakistan, Syria and Lebanon: girls in informal open-air schools under a Taliban ban, books demanded by the Islamic State terrorist group, and a Ukrainian soldier aiming for the winds of a children’s garden military position.
The UN estimates that 85 million children in conflict-affected schools do not have access to education.
Fires and disasters
On the other hand, fires in Los Angeles by 2025—14 current fires, more than 18,000 buildings destroyed, 200,000 people displaced, and up to 440 deaths based on public health studies—have been documented Ethan Swope paragraph Associated Press.
in Afghanistan, Elise Blanchard documented the story of 422 health centers in a row according to government health records, leaving women embarrassed without access to commandrons in one of the world’s highest maternal mortality countries under Taliban rule.
His images show student demonstrations against corruption, clashes with the gendarmerie that left at least 22 dead, and the failure of a military unit to join the protesters, as well as the military’s subsequent power to exclude youth from the political transition they forced.
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