Samar Abu Elouf’s photograph of Mahmoud Ajjour, a nine-year-old Gazan boy who lost his arms in an Israeli attack, has won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year.
[Samar Abu Elouf/NYT/World Press Photo]

Portrait of armless Palestinian boy wins World Press Photo’s top award

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Three topics emerged when a jury got down to selecting contenders for the World Press Photo of the Year.

The pool of entries was massive—tens of thousands of photographs from six regions spanning the globe. Yet just three topics came to define the 2025 edition of the 70-year-old competition: conflict, migration and climate change.

“Another way of seeing them is as stories of resilience, family, and community,” said global jury chair Lucy Conticello.

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Alison MacLean is no stranger to war.

During numerous tours in Afghanistan, the Canadian-documentarian bore witness to some of the best of humanity, while also possibly experiencing some of the worst.

It was during one of her four media embeds with a NATO country force when the latter played out and the Taliban tried to abduct her. She evaded the foiled attempt, and still tries to see the good in people—an endeavour encapsulated in her new documentary on the Second World War’s Canadian-led Operation Faust.

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