2022 Contest winners

The 2022 World Press Photo Contest winners are 24 photographers from 23 countries. Providing a variety of perspectives from all corners of the globe, the awarded works present courageous stories, invaluable insights and a diversity of interpretations – from the undeniable effects of the climate crisis to civil rights movements, and from access to education to preserving indigenous practices and identity.

Global Winners

Kamloops Residential School

Amber Bracken

Saving Forests with Fire

Matthew Abbott

Amazonian Dystopia

Lalo de Almeida

Blood is a Seed

Isadora Romero

Region Africa

Sudan Protests

Faiz Abubakr Mohamed

Afraid to go to School

Sodiq Adelakun Adekola

The Zebu War

Rijasolo

The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken

Rehab Eldalil

Region Asia

Palestinian Children in Gaza

Fatima Shbair

The Cinema of Kabul

Bram Janssen

Boundaries: Human-Tiger Conflict

Senthil Kumaran

Blue Affair

Kosuke Okahara

Region Europe

Evia Island Wildfire

Konstantinos Tsakalidis

As Frozen Land Burns

Nanna Heitmann

Ukraine Crisis

Guillaume Herbaut

The Book of Veles

Jonas Bendiksen

Region North and Central America

Kamloops Residential School

Amber Bracken

The People Who Feed the United States

Ismail Ferdous

Political Year Zero

Louie Palu

The Flower of Time. Guerrero's Red Mountain

Yael Martínez

Region South America

San Isidro Settlement Eviction

Vladimir Encina

The Promise

Irina Werning

Amazonian Dystopia

Lalo de Almeida

Blood is a Seed

Isadora Romero

Region Southeast Asia and Oceania

Slingshots

Saving Forests with Fire

Matthew Abbott

Haze

Abriansyah Liberto

The Will to Remember

Charinthorn Rachurutchata