Photography of the year, the image of the international press 2025

While his family fled during an Israeli attack to Gaza City in March 2024, Palestine, Mahmoud Ajjour, nine -year -old, turned to encourage others to move forward. An explosion that cuts off his arm and distorted the other.

The family was evacuated to Doha (Qatar), where it received medical treatment. There was Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Ilov, who was also evacuated since 2023, took a picture to Ajkur for New York Times; The picture won the first prize yesterday International press photo 2025The image of the year.

The stained graph is picked up with a tired child with a white tank shirt. Next to the window, the light shines its face, indicating a mixture of sadness and serenity. “It is a silent picture, but he speaks very strong. He explains the story of a child, but also about a wider war that will affect future generations,” said Joemana Ellen Khoury, CEO of the international press photo.

Mahmoud learns to use the feet to play his phone, write and open doors. Regardless, you need special help for most daily activities, such as eating and wearing clothes. “The dream of Mahmoud is simple: he wants to get a suit and live his life like any other child,” says the organization, which was founded in 1955 on its website.

When the award was collected in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, the recognized lens artist stressed that “working in this project was a unique experience, but it is painful. Palestinian children have paid a high price for the horrors from which they suffered. Mahmoud is one of these children.

The first final: John Moore shows a picture of Chinese immigrants who are tightening crossing the border between Mexico and the United States.

The second final: The drought image was chosen in the Amazon, by Mexican Moscow Nolti as one of the qualified in the global photography of the press.

One of the most difficult things that Mahmoud’s mother explained to me is that when Mahmoud realized that his arms were amputated, the first thing he said: “How can I embrace you without my arms?” Abu Elov added.

The jury considered that this image, “with its strong formation and its interest in light”, was contemplating and raised questions about the experiences that they still have to live the child, about stripping the area and continuous attacks on journalists in Gaza.

Without avoiding the effects of the body of war, photography treats conflict and Patteria from a human angle, highlighting the physical and psychological shocks that civilians forced to suffer, and will continue to suffer, due to the war on an industrial scale. “

The lens artist lives in the same complex of the Doha apartments like Mahmoud. He created links with families from there and documented some of the few wounded jazzs that managed to go out for treatment.

The 2025 version of World Press Photo, which commemorates the seventieth anniversary of its founding, also announced two final candidates in this competition, who obtained 59 thousand photos 320 photos captured 3778 by optical.

It was one of the final photography contestants Cross the nightThe American John Moore took to Getty Emuz. Where the Chinese immigrants can be seen in cold rain, after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States, in Campo, California.

The second final was chosen Drought in AmazonThat Mexican Musuk Nolte has been arrested to get Panos Pictures and bertha Foundation. The picture shows a young man who takes food to his mother in Manakuro (Brazil); Before reaching the boat, but due to dehydration, it is now necessary to walk two kilometers away through the dry river.

Today, the World Press Photo 2025 exhibition will be opened in Newoy Kirk, Amsterdam, where it will be shown until September 21, which shows the 42 photos chosen by the International jury for training by different countries, such as Italy, Australia, Australia, Australia, and Australia.

This exhibition displays the best and most shocking images in journalistic photography and documentary films last year.

-With information from AFP and DPA

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