He joined the AP in 1990 at the age of 18 as communism was collapsing across Central and Eastern Europe. Ghirda started by covering the complex social and political turmoil generated by the transition ...

Carlos Barria is an Argentinian-Chilean senior photographer at Reuters, based in California. Born in Patagonia, Barria has spent more than 20 years with Reuters covering breaking news around the world ...

Yuri Kozyrev was born in Russia in 1963 and has worked as a photojournalist for the past 20 years, covering every major conflict in the former Soviet Union, including two Chechen wars. Immediately ...

Eladio Fernandez is an iLCP Associate Fellow, a naturalist, researcher, and an author from the Dominican Republic. He has an extensive image bank on Caribbean flora, fauna and landscapes and his work ...

French photographer Georges Mérillon (France, 1957) started his photographic career in 1980 as a freelance photographer for Géo magazine and Figaro magazine. In 1981, he was one of the founding ...

He has been documenting the refugee crisis around the world for over a decade. He is a National Geographic photographer and the founder of Everyday Refugees Foundation. As the former Associated Press ...

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"The four global winners represent the best photos and stories from the most important and urgent stories of 2022. They also help to continue the tradition of what it is possible to do with ...

The World Press Photo Foundation is proud to present the category winners of the 2021 World Press Photo Contests, selected by an independent jury. The winners of the World Press Photo of the Year, ...

"These final works selected are a tapestry of our world today, centered on images we believe were made with a respect and integrity that could speak universally and resonate far beyond their origins." ...

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