The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes and celebrates the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography from around the world. To offer a more global and better geographic balance of perspectives, we launched a new regional strategy in 2022, changing the set-up of the annual contest and the judging.
2022 Contest winners
Selected by an independent jury out of 64,823 entries by 4,066 photographers from 130 countries, the 2022 World Press Photo Contest regional winners are 24 photographers from 23 countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Russia, Sudan, and Thailand.
Providing a variety of perspectives from all corners of the globe, the awarded works present courageous stories, invaluable insights, and a diversity of interpretations – from the undeniable effects of the climate crisis to civil rights movements, and from access to education to preserving indigenous practices and identity. View the 2022 Contest regional winners.
From the 24 regional winners in each of the four categories of our new contest model, the 2022 Contest jury selected these four global winners:
The 2023 Contest will open for entries on 1 December 2022. Find out about prizes, categories, entry rules and more here so you can be ready to enter and encourage everyone you think should participate.
