The first time I met Poppy, a 20-year-old art student, she showed me a diary filled with love letters that she had written to her ex…

The fifth Visionary Award: HANNAH REYES MORALES for her project:

“By weaving intimate portraits into the greater narratives of the stories Ayuso makes, he strives to tell compassionate but unflinching looks into the peoples of the Americas.” - Santiago Escobar…

“Nydia Blas delicately weaves stories concerning circumstance, value, and power and uses her work to create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens. The result is an…

“Dylan's ability to create meaning and tension between images, cohesion through ambiguity, and poetry through visual grammar captured my attention. I believe Dylan's capacity to build metaphors…

We, Women explores crucial issues across the United States through photo-based community engagement projects by women, transgender, and non-binary artists.

Co-authored by Savannah Dodd and Andrew Jackson

“Yael Martinez’s approach to documentary photography is bravely intimate and pushes the boundaries of traditional storytelling practices. For example, Martinez places himself in various photographs,…

“Mariceu Erthal García’s ability to search for ways to understand her stories and put herself into the world of the people she is trying to learn about is uncanny. Her work is sensitive, profound and…

“Ian Willms is a talented landscape photographer and he is able to show both the beauty of the land and how it is being destroyed. At the same time, he tells intimate stories about people. It is great…

“Gulshan Khan’s interest in identity, transition and belonging within a post-colonial South Africa continues to direct her visual representations of the human condition and the world around her. It is…

“Heba Khamis' projects show that she's able to work with very intimate and difficult topics in a compassionate and ethically correct way. Her project ‘Banned Beauty’ about breast ironing in Cameroon…

“Zied is a documentary photographer who is using aesthetics in a tasteful way to invite the audience to his stories. His work is not pushing facts but instead he uses careful compositions that leaves…

“I am nominating Sarah first and foremost because there is a genuine sense of humanness in her approach to creating. It expresses inquisitiveness, beauty, adoration, concern, mindfulness and pride. I…

With Lars Boering, Managing Director of World Press Photo, as chair, the online selection committee comprises:Lekgetho Makola, Head of Market Photo Workshop (South Africa)Marie-Ann Yemsi, art…

I used to like getting lost coloring maps at school. I used to imagine myself walking on each one of them, mostly on the ones with the…

“Álvaro Laiz has found his unique way of expressing himself by concentrating on the complex relationship between man and nature, shifting between conflict and fascination. He tries to focus on…

With Lars Boering, Managing Director of World Press Photo, as chair, the online selection committee comprises:Daria Scolamacchia, photo editor (Italy)Sigrid Nygaard, photo editor and photographer…

The Bitter with the Sweet is a love story on the verge of madness. By Ann Sophie Lindström , Bombay Flying Club, 23:48. Cowboy Ricky, 62, and Gretchen, 55,…

“Tamara Merino’s approach to documentary photography is sensitive and poetic. Through her passion for storytelling, she travels the world to photograph social and cultural issues with a focus on…

‘I’m going to tell you a story.’ I doubt I am alone in finding this simple sentence amongst the most enticing in the English language…

World Press Photo Exhibition 2019 Rome, Italy Rome, Italy 25 Apr, 2019 - 26 May, 2019 On display