Horrors of Gaza wins 'Picture of the Year' at the World Press Photo awards

 Horrors of Gaza wins 'Picture of the Year' at the World Press Photo awards (youtube.com)

18 Apr 2024 #IsraelWar #IsraelHamasWar #Israel

The Netherlands-based World Press Photo competition has announced its winners - for the best visual journalism of the past year. The winners captured some of the most powerful snapshots. South Africa’s Lee-Ann Olwage's story 'Valim Babena' won for Story of The Year. Her portraits show people with dementia, and the family members who care for them in Madagascar, where the disease has little public awareness. Venezuelan Alejandro Cegarra won the Long-Term Project Award with his vivid monochrome images of migrants and asylum seekers trying to cross Mexico’s southern border. In the Open Format, Ukraine’s Julia Kochetova won with her website that “brings together photojournalism with the personal documentary style of a diary to show the world what it is like to live with war as an everyday reality”. But it was the work of Reuters photojournalist in Gaza, Mohammed Salem, which was awarded 'Photo of The Year'. His image, taken just ten days into Israel's war on Gaza, shows a woman named Inas Abu Maamar, cradling the body of her niece, Saly. The little girl was killed by an Israeli missile attack on her home in Khan Younis. Joumana El Zein Khoury is Executive Director at the World Press Photo Foundation. She says photo journalism is a vital part of documenting conflicts around the world.