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The World Press Photo Photography Award for the Year was attributed to the image of a nine -year -old Palestinian boy who lost both arms during an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, the organization announced today.
The winning image of this year’s World Press photo, which portrays Mahmoud Ajjour, was captured by the freelance photographer Produced material elü For the American newspaper The New York Times, currently living in the same complex of doha apartments, in Qatar, where the boy is in treatment.
Born in the Gaza Strip, from where it was evacuated in December 2023, the photographer established ties with local families And documented some of the few serious injuries that managed to leave the territory to receive treatment, reports the organization of the prize.
Mahmoud Ajjour lost his arms when his family was running out of an Israeli attack in March 2024: “Mahmoud turned back to inciting others to move forward. An explosion cut off one arms and muttered the other. The family has been removed for Qatar where, after medical treatment, Mahmoud is learning how to use his feet to play games on his mobile phone, write and open doors, ”says the organization, on the ‘Online’ page, about Palestinian child’s Calvary and the efforts for his recovery.
This year’s World Press Photo winner
To photographer Portuguese Maria Abranches was among the 42 winners regional From the World Press Photo, which was the finalist for the “Photography of the Year” prize of the Netherlands, created in 1955 by the homonymous and non -profit Foundation.
Maria Abranches won the prize in the stories category, in the Europe region, with the “Maria” report on maid and caregiver Ana Maria Jeremiah, “Trafficked from Angola to Portugal at age 9, under false promises of education,” as the project presentation on the World Press photo page on the Internet indicates.
In the general list of candidates for World Press Photo of the Year were still photojournalists such as Germans Florian Bachmeier and Nanna Heitmann, with war-related reports in Ukraine, the American Jabin Botsford, with an image of Donald Torsan when shot in a 2024 rally, Brazilians Amanda Maciel Perobelli, André Coelho and Anselmo Cunha, with works ranging from the floods in southern Brazil, to drought in areas of the Amazon, and Frenchman Jerome Brouillet, who portrayed Surfer Gabriel Medina in suspended at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
World Press photo works in the context of a contest that distinguishes, annually, photographs that make known to the public Moments that mark today of peoples and societies around the world, and reverberating beyond borders, with consequences on the global scale.
Last year, the winning image also portrayed an episode of the war in Palestine, with a photograph captured by Mohammed Salem of a woman holding the corpse in the 5 -year -old niece in her arms.
