Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Photo Contest
  • Contest
  • Academy
  • Foundation
  • Events
  • Book Store
  • Search
2013 Multimedia Contest 2012 Multimedia Contest 2011 Multimedia contest 2012 Joop Swart Masterclass 2011 Joop Swart Masterclass
2013 Photo Contest 2012 Photo Contest 2011 Photo Contest The World Press Photo archive

Featured

The 2013 Photo Contest

Pacu Jawi Bull Race by Wei Seng Chen
Go to The 2013 Photo Contest
About the contest 2013 multimedia contest
2013 photo contest

Featured

View 'Lost and Found' and other winners from the 2013 multimedia contest
Go to
About the Academy Workshops Publishing
The Joop Swart Masterclass Video library Grants

Featured

Next#02

Featuring the work of the 2012 masterclass participants
Go to Next#02
About the Foundation Sponsors and partners
News Press

Featured

history of world press photo
Go to

Search

  • World Press Photo of the Year

    Jodi Bieber

2011 Photo Contest

View the entire collection of winning images from the 54th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from a record number of images submitted to the contest.

5,691 photographers
125 nationalities
108,059 pictures

Editor's pick

  • Targeted Killings in Karachi
    Massimo Berruti
    Couchsurfin' Around the World
    Malte Jäger

Winners gallery

Category

Select which category you would like to view:

Arts and EntertainmentContemporary IssuesDaily LifeGeneral NewsNaturePeople in the NewsPortraitsSportsSpot News
Photographer

Select which photographer you would like to view

Christophe Archambault
Daniel Berehulak
Massimo Berruti
Jodi Bieber
Andrew Biraj
Fernando Brito
Joost van den Broek
Steve Christo
Gustavo Cuevas
Fabio Cuttica
Filip Cwik
Marco Di Lauro
Reinhard Dirscherl
Sarah Elliott
Corentin Fohlen
Olivier Grunewald
Lu Guang
Tomasz Gudzowaty
Wolfram Hahn
Mike Hutchings
Malte Jäger
Kemal Jufri
Ed Kashi
Chris Keulen
Olivier Laban-Mattei
Péter Lakatos
Benjamin Lowy
Amit Madheshiya
Javier Manzano
Andrew McConnell
Fernando Moleres
Davide Monteleone
Daniel Morel
Seamus Murphy
Mads Nissen
Guang Niu
Kenneth O'Halloran
Feisal Omar
Ed Ou
Thomas P. Peschak
Darcy Padilla
Adam Pretty
Altaf Qadri
Martin Roemers
Ivo Saglietti
Amit Sha'al
Daniele Tamagni
Stefano Unterthiner
Guillem Valle
Riccardo Venturi
Alexandre Vieira
Uwe Weber
Michael Wolf
Vincent Yu
Remove filters

Feisal Omar
Daily Life
1st prize singles

Feisal Omar
Daily Life
1st prize singles
2011

A man carries a shark through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, in September.

View

Couchsurfin’ Around the World

Malte Jäger
Daily Life
2nd prize singles

Couchsurfin’ Around the World

Malte Jäger
Daily Life
2nd prize singles
2011

Couchsurfers hang out at the apartment of their host, ‘Naked Paul’, in Brooklyn, New York.

View

Andrew Biraj
Daily Life
3rd prize singles

Andrew Biraj
Daily Life
3rd prize singles
2011

An overcrowded train approaches a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as more passengers wait to board.

View

Metropolis

Martin Roemers
Daily Life
1st prize stories

Metropolis

Martin Roemers
Daily Life
1st prize stories
2011

Half of humanity now lives in a city.

View

Juveniles Behind Bars in Sierra Leone

Fernando Moleres
Daily Life
2nd prize stories

Juveniles Behind Bars in Sierra Leone

Fernando Moleres
Daily Life
2nd prize stories
2011

Pademba Road Prison, in Freetown, Sierra Leone was built to accommodate around 300 prisoners, but now holds more than 1,100, including many juveniles.

View

In the Name of Victoria

Mads Nissen
Daily Life
3rd prize stories

In the Name of Victoria

Mads Nissen
Daily Life
3rd prize stories
2011

In September, a Danish daily newspaper ran a picture of an 18-month-old orphan from Nepal with hydrocephalus – the condition also known as ‘water on the brain’.

View

Editor's pick

  • Narco Cinema
    Fabio Cuttica
    The Flying Cholitas, Goddesses of the Ring
    Daniele Tamagni

About the foundation

We exist to inspire understanding of the world through quality photojournalism.

Stay connected

Check our FacebookRead our TweetsRSS

Sign up for our newsletter

Sign up

  

Terms and conditions | Contact us | Press center