Now live: Join our special anniversary event, celebrating 70 years of World Press Photo as well as the culmination of the 2025 Joop Swart Masterclass: youtube.com/live/le0u_QBV9Zg We hope you can join us virtually throughout our day of programming from 13.00-19.00 CET.

Photo of the Day | A historic photograph of an African penguin colony, taken in the late 1890s, contrasts with the declining numbers seen in 2017 in the same location, on Halifax Island, Namibia.

One day left until our special 70th anniversary event at De Balie, in #Amsterdam, and via livestream, featuring presentations from the 2025 Joop Swart Masterclass participants and a dynamic line-up of industry experts!

Photographer Massimo Siragusa shares the story behind his award-winning image, part of our upcoming print sale, ‘70 Prints for 70 Years’, in @theguardian.com: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/29/candy-coloured-waterpark-massimo-siragusa-best-photograph

The 2025 Joop Swart Masterclass participants and mentors have arrived in #Amsterdam for an intensive week of workshops, visits, and talks.

Photo of the Day | An unidentified man tries to hold back the press as Saudi investigators arrive at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, after the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Children from the Teepa family drive the younger siblings home after a swim in the Ōhinemataroa (Whakatane) River in Ruatoki, New Zealand, on 27 January 2022.

Visit the World Press Photo Exhibition 2025, touring globally, and currently on display in #Vienna, #Turin, #Budapest, #Pontianak, #Curitiba, #Saguenay, #Valencia, #Vitoria-Gasteiz, #Bari, and #Taipei! View our calendar to plan your visit: worldpressphoto.org/calendar

From 17-26 Nov, we're organizing a limited-time print sale, 70 Prints for 70 Years. By purchasing a print, you're directly supporting our mission to safeguard & protect photojournalism worldwide. Sign up for our newsletter to get a discount: bit.ly/worldpressphoto-newsletter-70-prints-for-70-years

Photo of the Day | A Buddhist temple occupies one half of a mountain, while the other has been carved away by heavy machinery mining for jade, in Hpakant, Kachin State, which is the world’s biggest jade mine. By Hkun Lat, awarded in the 2021 Contest: www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...

Photo of the Day | Boxer Moreen Ajambo (30) trains at the Rhino boxing club in Katanga, a large informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda. Learn more about the image by John T. Pedersen, awarded in the 2019 Contest: worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2019/john-t-pedersen/1

Residents flee gang violence in their neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 19 November 2024, where thousands of residents have been killed, and more than a million have been displaced.

Join us on 7 November at De Balie in #Amsterdam and via livestream, for a special event to mark the 70th anniversary of World Press Photo and the culmination of the 2025 Joop Swart Masterclass! More about the program and tickets: worldpressphoto.org/calendar/2025/special-event-70-years-amsterdam

Coming soon: ‘70 Prints for 70 Years’, a limited-time print sale from 17-26 November 2025. Own a piece of visual history through a curated selection of 70 images from the World Press Photo archive. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified about the sale: bit.ly/wpph-newsletter

Photo of the Day | A new generation of bullfighters practice at the bullring in Almería, Spain. Discover the 2018 Contest awarded project by Nilokai Linares, documenting Spain’s controversial bullfighting tradition: worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2018/nikolai-linares/1

Photo of the Day | A staged recreation of the original Mercury Seven crew from 1960, photographed in New York City.

Why do we need stories of resilience, hope, and positive change? Our free educational publication, See the Story, explores key questions for visual storytelling through the work of the World Press Photo Contest winners. Download your copy: worldpressphoto.org/education/see-the-story

Flooded streets in Canoas, one of the most affected cities by record-breaking floods in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on 6 May 2024.

Photo of the Day | Ignat, a transgender man, sits with his girlfriend Maria in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Photo of the Day | Abigail Ferris (in mask) plays with friends at a temporary evacuation center in Bega, New South Wales, Australia, after being evacuated with her family during bushfires.

From breaking headlines to overlooked stories – discover the most compelling photojournalism and documentary photography of the past year at the #WPPh2025 Exhibition, touring globally! View our calendar to plan your visit: worldpressphoto.org/calendar

Last week to visit our 70th-anniversary exhibition in #Groningen, hosted by Noorderlicht! 'What Have We Done? Unpacking Seven Decades of World Press Photo’ is open at Niemeyer until Sunday, 19 October.

Photo of the Day | Handprints of relatives and photographs of the disappeared adorn a wall of the headquarters of the Madres de la Candelaria, a Medellín-based organization, in Colombia.

Residents of the Linda suburb of Livingstone, Zambia, watch a herd of elephants passing close by on 31 August 2024.

Photographer Lee-Ann Olwage shares the story behind her award-winning image featured in our upcoming print sale, in @theguardian.com: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/08/drag-queen-site-of-violence-lee-ann-olwages-best-photograph-africa

This image by Tatsiana Chypsanava, @pulitzercenter.org, @nzgeo.bsky.social, shows Mihiata Teepa (16) and her Tūhoe Māori Rugby League U16 teammates performing a haka during practice before a game, in Rotorua, New Zealand. See the project at the #WPPh2025 Exhibition: worldpressphoto.org/calendar

Photo of the Day | Sonunbek Kadyrov pilots his water taxi, serving the village of Kyzyl-Beyit, Kyrgyzstan. Local access to the main road has been blocked since the 1960s.

Our 70th-anniversary exhibition, ‘What Have We Done?’, is on display in #Groningen and #Johannesburg until 19 October and will open in #Dhaka on 14 November.

The online mentorship phase of the 2025 Joop Swart Masterclass is now nearing its end, and the group will soon come together in Amsterdam for an intensive week of workshops, visits, and talks. 📆 Save the date for the project presentations on 7 November! bit.ly/3IK0pWT

Photo of the Day | Evacuated horses stand tied to a pole, as smoke from a wildfire billows above them, on Zuma Beach, in Malibu, California, USA, during the 2018 wildfire season.

Mothers of hundreds of those captured during the “state of emergency” march in protest, demanding better conditions for the prisoners in San Salvador, El Salvador, on 9 December 2024.

Photo of the Day | From the project ‘The Cinema of Kabul’ by Bram Janssen, The Associated Press, awarded in the 2022 Contest, documenting the Ariana Cinema, which remained closed, its staff in limbo following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.

70 Prints for 70 Years: Own a piece of visual history with 70 iconic images from our archive! To mark our 70-year anniversary, we’re organizing a limited-time print sale from 17–26 November 2025. 📩 Discover more via our newsletter: bit.ly/wpph-newsletter

Visit the World Press Photo Exhibition 2025, touring globally and currently on display in #Toronto, #Budapest, #Copenhagen, #Lodi, #MexicoCity, #Brasília, #Montreal, #Flensburg, #Wellington, #Vienna, #Sinnai, #BuenosAires, and #Turin! Plan your visit: worldpressphoto.org/calendar

Photo of the Day | Young Devyn (20), photographed in New York, United States, is inspired by her Caribbean heritage and dreams of making space for women in the drill scene.

To accompany your visit to our 70th anniversary exhibition, ‘What Have We Done?’, World Press Photo has created a free visual thinking guide to encourage reflection and engagement by placing yourself as an active viewer. Download it here: worldpressphoto.org/70th-anniversary/publication

Personal files left piled in the infamous “Palestine Branch” interrogation and detention center in Damascus, Syria, on 18 December 2024.

Photo of the Day | Breeder Louis Kasay and eight herdsmen lead their zebu, highly valued across the region, to market across the rugged terrain of the Bongolava Plateau, in west-central Madagascar.

In her essay, ‘Photographs Are Not Passive Reflections of Reality,’ Dr. Lauren Walsh provides context for the repeated visual themes identified in our archive and highlighted in our 70th-anniversary exhibition: worldpressphoto.org/70th-anniversary/photographs-are-not-passive-reflections-of-reality

World Press Photo is partnering with ACOS Alliance to offer a safety training program for photo editors who regularly commission freelance photographers, to take place this November. Learn more and apply before 1 October 2025: airtable.com/appDeurHK4NDBp9b2/pagTEp6RhSto588rQ/form

Photo of the Day | Butterflies stream across protected indigenous fir forests in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico, benefiting from an ideal overwintering microclimate.

Join us this Wednesday, 24 September, for the second day of our pop-up festival in Johannesburg, co-created with Market Photo Workshop. As part of our 70-year exhibition, the event features an open discussion with local photographers.

On Saturday, we launched World Press Photo's 70th anniversary exhibition in #Groningen, the Netherlands, with a pop-up festival bringing together local photographers, critical thinkers, and audiences in a dynamic program of presentations, talks, and workshops. #WorldPressPhoto70

Photo of the Day | A veterinarian carries Diana, an eight-year-old female orangutan, for a final release into the wild in the Jantho Pine Forest Nature Reserve, Sumatra.

Last weekend to visit the World Press Photo Exhibition 2025 at De Nieuwe Kerk in #Amsterdam! Don’t miss the chance to see the most compelling works of the past year at our flagship annual exhibition, specifically designed for the space!

Join us at our pop-up festivals, as part of our 70-year anniversary exhibition, opening this weekend in #Groningen and in #Johannesburg! Each location welcomes a dynamic program, featuring various industry experts for a program of talks. Learn more: worldpressphoto.org/70th-anniversary/festivals

Photo of the Day | From the 2019 awarded project ‘Land of Ibeji’, by Benedicte Kurzen and Sanne de Wilde, Noor, depicting Kehinde Deborah and Taiwo Celestine (10) standing on a hill near Igbo-Ora, Nigeria, dressed for church.

Ahead of our 70th anniversary exhibition opening this week, @ThemFrames spoke with World Press Photo executive director Joumana El Zein Khoury. Read more: themframes.com/features/world-press-photo-at-70/

Photo of the Day | ‘Shields Strikes Back’, by Terrell Groggins, awarded in the 2019 Contest, captures Olympic champion Claressa Shields (right) fighting Hanna Gabriels in a boxing match at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Photo of the Day | Nael al-Barghouthi’s suit remains hanging in his bedroom in Kobar, near Ramallah, Palestine. His wife, Iman Nafi, keeps all her husband’s clothes and belongings in place.