The two shots taken by Italian photographers arriving in the final at World Press Photo 2021, the most prestigious photographic competition in the world, organized since 1955. Lorenzo Tugnoli, originally from Sant’Agata sul Santerno, he lives in Beirut and with his shots he told of the terrible explosion last August 4 in the port of Beirut. In the center of his image there is a naked, wounded man, his gaze turned to the ground, helpless while in front of him, the horizon is made of flames and black clouds of smoke.
“Lebanon is a country that is dear to me,” wrote Tugnoli on social media, already winner of the Pulitzer in 2019 and of the World Press Photo in two different categories. “My home and part of my family is here now. The country is still in turmoil and the dark times are certainly not over. I hope to be able to document better times for this beautiful country ».
Antonio Faccilongo instead he put love at the center of his photographic story, with Habibi, in the final for the category World Press Photo Story of the Year. One of the most troubled and painful: the one that unites Palestinian prisoners and their wives. Separated indefinitely, waiting to meet again and forced to get their sperm outside the prison walls to deliver their children thanks to assisted fertilization.
No ceremony in attendance, due to the pandemic, for the announcement of the winners that will take place on next April 15th online. Almost 75 thousand photos sent by 4315 photographers from 130 different countries and examined by the jury that varies every year and this year chaired by NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati. director and co-founder of the photo.circle platform.
The six candidates for the World Press Photo of The Year together with Lorenzo Tugnoli are: Evelyn Hockstein with a photo showing a discussion between a woman and a man about the Lincoln statue of the Emancipation Memorial; Valery Melnikov who recounted the escape from the Nagorno-Karabakh war; Mads Nissen who portrayed the embrace of an old woman after months of treatment due to the coronavirus, Oleg Ponomarev with a portrait of a Russian transgender man and his girlfriend, finally Luis Tato with a photo of the locust invasion in Kenya.
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