The harrowing consequences of war, the touching bond with those suffering from dementia, the daily risks faced by migrants: these are the themes of the photographs awarded this year at the World Press Photo 2024, the best-known recognition in the photojournalistic field. Selected from an initial pool of over 60 thousand images, the awarded photographs were subjected to scrutiny by a global jury chaired by Fiona Shields, head of the photographic editorial team of the British newspaper The Guardian, who highlighted the hard commitment and risks taken by many of the photographers participants, underlining how the jury wanted to ensure they “applauded the full breadth of the work presented”. ALL WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2024 AWARDS The Photo of the Year award went to the touching image A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece, by Mohammed Salem, already nominated in 2010 for a war photo. Salem’s photo shows a 36-year-old woman holding in her arms the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed along with other family members by an Israeli missile. Chosen by the jury for its respectful composition and its ability to represent an unimaginable loss, the winning photograph represents with great delicacy and sensitivity a moment of pain and loss in the Gaza Strip. The Story of the Year award, dedicated to the sequence of shots photographs capable of telling a story of journalistic relevance, was won by Valim-babena, Lee-Ann Olwage’s project on the topic of dementia on the island of Madagascar. The South African photographer documented with her shots the daily life of an elderly person suffering from dementia and his family, providing a personal look at a universal health problem which led the international jury to praise the way in which these images convey love and proximity.IN ROME THE EXHIBITION WITH THE BEST PHOTOS OF THE YEARThe other two awards, relating to the best long-term project (Long-Term Project Award) and the best “open format” project (Open Format Award), were won respectively by Alejandro Cegarra with The Two Walls, the story in images of the journey of migrants from Central America to the USA, and by Julia Kochetova, whose project War Is Personal explores in an innovative and personal way the impact of the conflict in Ukraine on the daily lives of those lives in a war zone. The winning photographs, together with the other finalist shots, are now exhibited in Amsterdam as part of the World Press Photo Exhibition 2024, the traveling exhibition that follows each edition of the prestigious prize and which this year will include over 60 locations around the world, including London, Berlin and Rome.[Immagine in apertura: A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece © Mohammed Salem, Palestine, Reuters]
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