Overview
- The exhibition runs from November 7 to December 14 at Barcelona’s CCCB, organized with Photographic Social Vision.
- Samar Abu Elouf’s portrait of nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, made in Doha after an Israeli strike left him gravely injured, was awarded World Press Photo of the Year.
- Abu Elouf, a Gaza photojournalist who was evacuated during the war, says the photograph offered a way to communicate her people’s suffering.
- For the first time the top award listed two finalists: John Moore for a border crossing scene at the U.S.–Mexico frontier and Musuk Nolte for an image of Amazon drought in Brazil.
- The 70th edition features 144 photographs chosen from 59,320 submissions and highlights wars, environmental crisis, migration issues and political polarization.