World Press Photo 2025

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World Press Photo of the Year finalist, "Droughts in the Amazon" by Musuk Nolte, courtesy of CCCB.

World Press Photo is the best-known photojournalism exhibition worldwide, bringing together all the winners of the World Press Photo photography and Digital Narrative competitions. Chosen for their exceptional visual quality, the exhibition presents all the prize-winning photographs and multimedia pieces which offer different perspectives on global current affairs—the majority of which are unpublished in Spain.

World Press Photo 2025 includes 42 winning photographers from the six regions into which the contest divides global participation: Africa, Asia-Pacific and Oceania, Europe, North and Central America, South America, and West, Central, and South Asia. Each region features three categories: Single Photographs, Photo Stories, and Long-Term Projects.

The winning projects of the competition, representing events and topics from 2024, focus on some of the most urgent social issues facing the world today, including politics, gender issues, migration, conflicts and the climate crisis. From protests in Kenya and El Salvador to the devastating wars in Lebanon and Palestine, the multifaceted impacts of the climate crisis in Peru, Brazil and the Philippines, and the persecution of the LGBTQI+ community in Nigeria, among many other subjects.

The Barcelona experience goes beyond the mere observation of the winning works; they are complemented with a carefully chosen program of parallel activities open to the public, designed to generate debate and to examine in greater depth the themes of the winning projects.

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