AP photojournalist Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo 2023 for his photo featuring emergency workers carrying Iryna Kalinina, an injured pregnant,woman, from a damaged maternity in Mariupol, Ukraine. Her left hand rested on her bloody lower abdomen. Her baby was about to be born and Irira, 32, died half an hour later.
The Photo Story of the Year Award went to Danish photographer Mads Nissen for a series of photos on the daily life in Afghanistan in 2022 titled “The Price of Peace in Afghanistan”.
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| Khalil Ahmad (15)’s kidney was sold to support his family. His Unable to afford food for the family, so in a desperate attempt to save the family, they decided to sell their eldest son's left kidney. (Source: World Press Photo) |
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| Women and children beg for bread outside a bakery in central Kabul, Afghanistan. (Source: World Press Photo) |
The Photo Long-Term Project Award went to photographer Anush Babajanyan from Armenia, who reflected on the water management crisis in Central Asia due to climate change and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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| Jaynagul Brjieva (37) and her family enjoy an outing to a hot spring in Kaji-Say, Kyrgyzstan. This is a unique opportunity for Jaynagul's children to take a warm bath in an area facing severe water shortages. (Photo: Anush Babajanyan) |
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| Women visit a hot spring that has emerged from the dried bed of the Aral Sea, near Akespe village, Kazakhstan. In recent years, the Aral Sea has lost 90% of its content. (Source: World Press Photo) |
For the Open Format Award, photographer Mohamed Mahdy from Egypt teamed up with residents of Al Max, a fishing community in Alexandria, to keep the memories of the community and won.
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| Mohamed Mahdy from Egypt won the Open Format Award. (Source: World Press Photo) |
Up to now, the Egyptian government has relocated a third of the neighbourhood of Al Max. The photographer encouraged the locals to create an image archive to preserve the memories of the village.
Spanish photographer Emilio Morenatti received the Honourable Mention.
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| Emilio Morenatti's photo is about a young girl who was injured and had her right leg amputated during the conflict in Ukraine. (Source: World Press Photo) |
