This year’s World Press Photo competition received 64,823 entries from 4,066 photographers from 130 countries.
The winners of the prestigious World Press Photo 2022. The list of winners appeared on the official website on Thursday, April 7th.
It is noted that all photos are not older than three years.
Category Photo of the Year Photographer Amber Bracken won. It features red clothes waving from wooden crosses along the road. The photo was taken in memory of children who died at the former resident school for Indian children in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
In particular, in May last year in the city of Kamloops, on the territory of the former boarding school Kamloops Residential School, which existed from 1890 to 1978 and a kind of camp for re -education of representatives of the natives, an unmarked. the graves of 215 children were discovered.
The jury called this shooting “a quiet moment of global recognition of the history of colonization, not just in Canada, but around the world.”
Category History of the year The works of the series won the competition Saving the forest by fire Australian photographer Matthew Abbott. He has documented devastating bush fires in Australia – Sydney, triggered by recorded temperatures, drought and storms.
In addition, the Abbot draws attention to the experience of aborigines in Australia. For tens of thousands of years, they have engaged in so -called cultural burning – the systematic use of fire to clean up undergrowths and create comfortable zones for small animals to be fed by humans. However, at the same time, this practice can reduce the risks of large forest fires.
Category Long -term project the winner was photographer Lalo de Almeida, who captured on the jury photos of the Amazon rainforest called Amazonia as a dystopia or Amazonian dystopia.
It has been observed that more than 350 different indigenous groups live in the lowlands of the Amazon. They live under the threat of deforestation in the rainforest.
In a new category open format with a so -called project The seed is blood South American photographer Isadora Romero won. His photos tell the story of a family from an ancestral village. The great-grandfather and great-grandmother were the custodians of the potato seeds, but only two of the different varieties survived. The photographer asks a rhetorical question: What kind of memory do the bones hold? The photographer asks such a rhetorical question. His project has both photos and videos.
Among other things, the jury mentioned the work of journalists in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Latin America.
It will be recalled that last year Danish photographer Mads Nissen was the winner of this competition for the First Hug.
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Source: korrespondent
