The World Press Photo, the most important photojournalism contest has announced the winners of the 2021 edition, the 64th edition created by the Dutch foundation that first launched the contest in 1995. The «World Press Photo of the year» went to the Danish photographer Mads Nissen, awarded for the shot that strongly shows what the pandemic has been, for all of us, in the last year. The lack of contact. The photo taken by Nissena São Paulo shows an elderly patient suffering from Covid-19 rucevere her first hug after five months, thanks to the “embrace tent”.
Participating photographers were 4,135 from 130 different countries. The images submitted to the jury’s judgment were over 74 thousand. Among the winners there are also three Italian photographers: Antonio Faccilongo, Gabriele Galimberti and Lorenzo Tugnoli.
The first was awarded within the category Long-Term Project, with a report dedicated to the smuggling of sperm inside Palestinian prisons, used by men in prison to have children with their wives who are waiting for them at home. Gabriele Galimberto won in the Portraits category with a report made for the National Geographic and dedicated to gun owners in the United States. Lorenzo Tugnoli, in the category Spot News, Stories was awarded for his reportage made immediately after the tragic explosion inside the port of Beirut, in August 2020.
“2020 was a difficult year and today we recognize the visual storytellers who have risked their lives to present us with important stories about our world,” he said. Joumana El Zein Khoury, executive director of the World Press Photo Foundation, during the award ceremony which took place in streaming on April 15. “The winning stories and productions touched the jury for the personal, human and hopeful cut that the photographers gave to very difficult issues such as the pandemic, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder by George Floyd ».
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