World Press Photo contest archive
For over fifty years the World Press Photo contest has captured images of our times. Our archive of winning photos is not only a record of more than half a century of human history, but a showcase of successive styles in photography and reportage.
The archive gallery comprises some 10,000 images. It includes photos that have become icons, by some of the leading names in the profession. World Press Photo has put them online with the aim of sharing our knowledge, resources and experience with the widest possible network.
Giorgia Fiorio: The Gift
What force moves migrations of multitudes through infinite distances and the highest of mountains? What have they in common, those who bang their foreheads against the ground, with those who raise their eyes to the sky? What those painted, tattooed, or scarified by intricate signs with those behind masks, and those under head-scarves? Who inhabits the bleeding limbs of flagellants; who under the skin covered in ashes? Why some strip-bare, why some hide-up to their eyes, why some shaved-bald as peeled almonds, why some hirsute, hair and long beards rolled into exorbitant turbans. Ecstasy, Trance, Contemplation and Meditation, reveal an ineffable innermost perception, or the core of a physical experience? In January 2000 I began a photographic project, “the Gift”: a visual testimony and personal quest on the relation of the individual to the Sacred and around humanity’s spiritual heritage. Without encyclopaedic intentions, I followed raw, direct experience on an arbitrary course.
Massimo Berruti: Pakistan, fact or fiction?
Pakistan is a troubled country at the center of international geopolitical interests and is facing difficult times. The people have always been divided by differences and language, and now, after years of disturbances and dictatorship, the balance is very fragile.
The "War on Terror" with the army fighting against the Taliban has clearly failed and the people have now become the target of an invisible enemy. But the Pakistanis have not surrendered to fear. While they may not understand the reasons for the situation, they realize that the violence is designed to destabilize the country, no doubt in the interests of those who are determined to continue and expand the "war."City of Perpignan Young Reporter's Award 2009.
Alexandra Avakian: My journeys in the muslim world
Alexandra Avakian is a native of Manhattan and Malibu who chose to spend two years in Gaza where she saw and suffered violence at close range.
In Somalia, where death can come at any time, she faced murderous militiamen with loaded guns. In her journeys she has captured the cold, crazed stare of a gun-toting child, the anguish of families torn apart by terrorism, the beauty of festivities and the everyday happiness of Muslims across the world. She has traveled with refugees, diplomats, guerillas, and leaders, including Yasser Arafat who referred to her as the "dictator" but granted her access for many years. She spent eight weeks with Hezbollah, and has explored countries under the most repressive regimes. The project "Windows of the Soul" spans almost two decades.
Stanley Greene: Western front
Regular visitors to Visa pour l'Image are well acquainted with Stanley's work; he is one of the most exhibited photographers in Perpignan. But if you thought you'd seen everything, you haven't. We may know his work on Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur, but now he has got out the pictures from the period 1975 to 1985 - Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n'Roll. And what a discovery it is, going back over the wild years when we could do anything and everything. This step back into the past can help us understand how Stanley Greene has developed, reaching the type of reporting and stories he does today.
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