The World Press Photo 2024 goes to the photographer Mohammed Salem For “The Pieta of Gaza”image taken on October 17, 2023 atNasser hospital Of Gaza. The photo of the year immortalizes a heartbroken woman, Inas Abu Maamarwhile embracing the lifeless body of Sallyhis 5-year-old granddaughter, wrapped in a shroud.
The Gaza Pietà by Mohammed Salem
Mohammed Salem works for the agency Reuters. On October 17, 10 days after the start of the conflict, the photojournalist was at the Nasser hospital in Gaza.
There he came across the pain of 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar. Little Saly was not the only relative lost by the woman: the little girl had died from an Israeli bomb that fell on her house in Khan Younis. In addition to her, her mother and sister also died in the explosion.
Amsterdam, 18 April 2024 – The winner of the 2024 World Press Photo Award is announced.
“It was a powerful and sad moment and I felt that the image broadly summed up what was happening in the Gaza Strip,” commented Mohammed Salem. More than 10 years ago the photojournalist won another award for the same theme.
The comment of the president of the jury
“It’s a really deeply moving image,” said Fiona Shields, head of photography at the Guardian and president of the international jury. “Once you see her, she sticks in your mind.
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It’s like a kind of literal and metaphorical message about the horror and futility of conflict” and makes “an incredibly powerful argument for peace,” he added.
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Other prizes
A total of 1,000 participants participated in the World Press Photo 2024 61,062 images presented by 3,851 photographers coming from 130 countries. The 24 projects that won the local awards participated in the global finals. In addition to Mohammed Salem with The “Gaza Pieta”, other photographers were also awarded.
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The South African Lee-Ann Olwagewho works for the magazine Geowon the award for Story of the year with its portrait of a Madagascar family living with an elderly parent suffering from dementia.
The prize for the Long term project went to the Venezuelan Alejandro Cegarra for the series entitled “The two walls”a work begun in 2018 in which the photographer drew on his direct experience to tell the story of the vicissitudes of migrants crossing Mexico on their way to North America.
The award for the category Open format was won by Julia Kochetova for his website which combines photojournalism with a documentary and diary style. With her work dedicated to the conflict in Ukraine, Kochetova has shown what it means to experience war as an everyday reality.
Photo source: ANSA
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