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Distraught girls cling to their father, Luis, as ICE detains him following an immigration hearing. Luis served as the sole breadwinner for his family. New York City, 26 August 2025.

Photojournalists were limited to public hallways, but this photographer kept showing up anyway – and her persistence earned her this major award. Emotional ICE image wins World Press Photo of the Year

By Hillary K. Grigonis published

News World Press Photo has selected an emotional image of a family seperated by ICE as the Photo of the Year for 2026

News
A female polar bear feeds on a sperm whale carcass in the polar pack ice north of the Norwegian archipelago, Svalbard. 82° North, International Waters, 8 July 2025

From a polar bear on a dead whale to socializing with a robot, these World Press Photo award winners create “urgent portrait of our world today”

By Hillary K. Grigonis published

AWARDS The winning images from the 2026 World Press Photo Contest tell the stories not just of the world, but of the photographers who endured to capture them

AWARDS
01 January, 1989US invasion of Panama during Operation Just Cause. By December, General Noriega's days as president were numbered as the US responded to his declaration of war. Noriega was eventually tracked down where he had sought asylum in a Vatican embassy.

What have we done? World Press Photo celebrates 70th anniversary with major exhibition

By Kalum Carter published

A landmark show curated by Cristina de Middel revisits seven decades of powerful, provocative, and sometimes problematic images that shaped how we see the world

Photojournalism
Vietnam War survivor Kim Phuc Phan Thi (L), also known as the "Napalm Girl," poses with photojournalist Nick Ut holding his 1972 Pulitzer Prize and World Press Photo award-winning photograph during the presentation of the Spanish edition of her book at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship in San José on April 12, 2023

The Napalm Girl saga continues: World Press Photo suspends the attribution of 'The Terror of War' to Nick Út

By Kim Bunermann published

NEWS The authorship of this historical image was in question before… now World Press Photo states that "the level of doubt is too significant to maintain the existing attribution"

NEWS