The annual contest World Press Photo Contest has announced the winners of continental contest 2023. The 24 winners and six medalists of honor used the photographs to call attention to the major global problems of 2022, including wars, protests historical and the global climate crisis.
The contest World Press Photo 2023 received more than 60, 000 jobs from almost 130 countries. Six jurors continental evaluated the photos sent, and all the winners were selected by an international jury. The international jury included the presidents of the jury regional, the president of the international jury, the photo Editor of the New York Times and the co-founder of Diversify Photo, Brent Lewis.
Jumana the Zayn Khoury, executive director of World Press Photo Foundation, says: "Select these stunning winning images of tens of thousands of jobs was a great challenge for our independent members of the jury, each with deep caution, experience and passion in making decisions, presenting a striking vision and level fair last year's world".
Lee-Ann Olwage
In 2015, the egyptian government began the construction of a new administrative capital (US) in the desert east of Cairo to host ministries, leading companies, and reduce the chronic congestion and pollution of the city. Following the model of Dubai, 6.5 million people live in this new urban environment. Critics of the project argue that the NAC is destined for a privileged minority, and serves the efforts of president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to strengthen the power and create a legacy. These images are part of a large project on new capital that addresses the notions of work, urban development of neoliberal inequality.
Africa
Individual photos
Lee-Ann Olwage
As life expectancy increases, the dementia is increasingly becoming a problem in socio-cultural and public health in Ghana and Africa as a whole. The lack of public awareness about the behavior associated with the disease means that women who have symptoms are sometimes perceived as witches. In Ghana, may be sent to live in the so-called “camps of witches”. The project of Leigh-Anne Allwage seeks to highlight stories of dementia of the african continent that are often overlooked.
Stories
Nick Hannes
Nick Hannes
Nick Hannes
The oasis depend on a delicate balance of three elements: abundant water supply, Soil quality, and date-palms, and function as islands of biodiversity and barriers against desertification. In Morocco, the human activity-destructive and the global warming are now disrupting the ecosystem. Approximately two-thirds of the oases of Morocco have disappeared in the last century due to factors such as the constant increase of the temperatures, fire, and water scarcity. The degradation of the oasis in turn affects the inhabitants, causing a decrease in agricultural production, poverty and the displacement of the population. The jury praised the project for its investigation subtle environment in danger of extinction.
M hammed Kilo
Abu Nahleh, a veteran reporter for the israeli-palestinian conflict, was shot dead two days before while covering a police raid of the israeli army in jenin, west bank. Another journalist was wounded in the scene. After the initial denial, the israeli army acknowledged that there was a "high probability" that Abu Nahleh outside shot and killed by an israeli soldier.
Maya Levin
After the withdrawal of u.s. troops and their allies in Afghanistan in August of 2021, the taliban returned to power. In response, other countries stopped providing foreign aid and froze billions of dollars in government stocks placed abroad. The severe droughts in 2022 exacerbated the economic crisis; today, half of the population of the country did not have enough food, and more than a million children suffer from severe malnutrition, according to the UN. This story reflects the many difficulties faced by the afghan people in their daily lives.
Hossein Fatemi
This video project based on photos has a night chaotic in the life of a nurse iranian while saving the life of a young Protester named Reza. These images offer a vision rare of the dangers faced by the protesters in the streets of Iran today, in the context of an incident provocative: on September 16, 2022, Mahsa "Gina" Amini, a woman kurdish 22-year-old died after being arrested by the moral police of the islamic Republic for allegedly violating the strict rules of the country that restrict the clothing and behavior of women. The protests that followed rapidly intensified, spreading throughout the country. In response, the islamic Republic cut off access to the Internet and brutally put down the uprisings. Because the hospitals are under the control of the regime, all the wounded in the protests, they run the risk of being arrested and subjected to more bullying when seeking medical attention.
Carlos Barria
Upon arriving to the united States from Honduras in 2017 in search of asylum, Maria Hernandez, and their two daughters, eight and three years old, were arrested. The border authorities deported to Mary, but their children remained. They lived first in an orphanage and then moved to live with the adult son of Mary, who was already in the united States. In 2022, Mary came back to the program of asylum and was reunited with his family in los Angeles, California. The jury praised how this story clearly demonstrates the difficulties that immigrants often face when they assimilate in a new country.
Fabiola Ferrero
Seven million venezuelans have left their country and went to live abroad, caused by the economic collapse, political unrest, high unemployment, and extreme social inequality. At the turn of the Millennium, Venezuela, rich in oil, prospered, but after a sharp drop in oil prices, economic mismanagement and political instability, their well-being collapsed. Young people, especially young people, began to leave. The photographer was one of them, but returned to find traces of her memory. His project combines images of migration and the political violence of the past with images of Venezuela moderna, its decline, and the resilience of the people living in it.
Valentina is a 13 year-old girl who dreams of becoming a photographer and her mother is in prison for possession of marijuana. The prison crisis ongoing in Ecuador and policies punitive anti-drug mean that the separation between parents and children has been particularly severe. The videos and images in this multimedia project will focus on the imagination and the experience of Valentina as a young artist whose rich interior world is not determined by the conclusion of his mother, even when waiting to meet them.
The fight with armed groups and regional and ethnic are also opposed to the military dictatorship of Myanmar. It is the armed wing of a parallel government which was formed in large part by Democratic lawmakers overthrown in a military coup in Myanmar in 2021. Risking his life to himself, the photographer spent a year with people who joined this movement of resistance together.
Kimberly Cross
Shortly after taking office in June 2016, the president philippine Rodrigo Duterte launched a "war on drugs" agreed, ordering repeatedly attacks against suspects. This was followed by an increase in extrajudicial executions, perpetrated not only by the police but also by the vigilante masked and other civilians. Amnesty international reports that the executions were mainly directed at the poor. The national police of the Philippines recognizes that more than 6, 000 people have been killed in the country to date; local human rights organizations cited the figure at 30, 000.
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