World Press Photo has announced the best news photos of 2015.
The Photo of the Year goes to the Budapest-based Australian photojournalist Warren Richardson for the World Press Photo of the Year 2015. Titled as “Hope for a New Life” and the image shows a baby being passed through a fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border in Röszke, Hungary, on August 28th, 2015.
Richardson’s photo was also the 1st prize singles winner of the Spot News category. “I was exhausted by the time I took the picture,” Richardson says.
“It was around three o’clock in the morning and you can’t use a flash while the police are trying to find these people, because I would just give them away. So I had to use the moonlight alone.”
World Press Photo of the Year 2015 Winners Announced
The 2016 contest drew entries from around the world: 5,775 photographers from 128 countries submitted 82,951 images. The jury gave prizes in eight categories to 41 photographers from 21 countries including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, and the USA.
Here are the other 1st prize winners from the other categories:
Contemporary Issues
Singles
Haze in China by Zhang Lei of China
December 10, 2015
“A city in northern China shrouded in haze, Tianjin, China.”
Stories
Talibes, Modern-day Slaves by Mário Cruz of Portugal
May 18, 2015
Daily Life
Singles
China’s Coal Addiction by Kevin Frayer of Canada
November 26, 2015
Stories
An Antarctic Advantage by Daniel Berehulak of Australia
November 28, 2015
General News
Singles
IS Fighter Treated at Kurdish Hospital by Mauricio Lima of Brazil
August 1, 2015
Stories
Reporting Europe’s Refugee Crisis by Sergey Ponomarev of Russia
November 16, 2015
Nature
Singles
Storm Front on Bondi Beach by Rohan Kelly of Australia
November 6, 2015
Stories
Tough Times for Orangutans by Tim Laman of USA
March 17, 2014
People
Singles
Waiting to Register by Matic Zorman of Slovenia
October 7, 2015
Stories
Exposure by Kazuma Obara of Japan
July 12, 2015
Sports
Singles
FIS World Championships by Christian Walgram of Austria
February 8, 2015
Stories
Vetluga’s Hockey by Vladimir Pesnya of Russia
February 19, 2015
Spot News
Stories
Aftermath of Airstrikes in Syria by Sameer Al-Doumy of Syria
October 30, 2015
Long-Term Projects
Stories
Sexual Assault in America’s Military by Mary F. Calvert of USA
March 21, 2014
You can find the entire gallery of winning photos on the World Press Photo website.
