• Italian Fabio Bucciarelli, Italy, Agence France-Presse, 2nd Prize Spot News Stories 10 October 2012, Aleppo, Syria. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up position in the Sulemain Halabi district, a rebel stronghold, during clashes with government forces. The Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo was the scene of some of the bloodiest clashes in the ongoing uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Both government and opposition forces considered control of Aleppo to be strategically important to their aims.
    Italian Fabio Bucciarelli, Italy, Agence France-Presse, 2nd Prize Spot News Stories 10 October 2012, Aleppo, Syria. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up position in the Sulemain Halabi district, a rebel stronghold, during clashes with government forces. The Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo was the scene of some of the bloodiest clashes in the ongoing uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Both government and opposition forces considered control of Aleppo to be strategically important to their aims.
  • The World Press Photo of the Year for 2012 was taken by Swede Paul Hansen. It was shot in, Gaza City, in the Palestinian Territories. The bodies of two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his elder brother Muhammad, almost four, were carried by their uncles to a mosque for their funeral, in Gaza City. The children were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on 19 November.
    The World Press Photo of the Year for 2012 was taken by Swede Paul Hansen. It was shot in, Gaza City, in the Palestinian Territories. The bodies of two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his elder brother Muhammad, almost four, were carried by their uncles to a mosque for their funeral, in Gaza City. The children were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on 19 November.
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Gary Knight to Head 2014 World Press Photo Judging

7 October 2013
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The next World Press Photo competition, to launch in December, will be judged by a panel headed by UK photographer Gary Knight.

The next World Press Photo competition judging panel will be headed by UK professional Gary Knight, founding photographer of the VII Photo Agency. He will be supported by an international jury of 18 leading photojournalism professionals. World Press Photo’s annual competition is the leading photojournalism contest in the world. It’s free to enter for all professional photojournalists and their representatives and the entry website will open at the beginning of December.

Gary Knight is a photographer, the founder of the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice at the Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership, and co-founder of the VII Photo agency and the GroundTruth Project. He divides his time between academia and long-term photography projects.

Knight was previously a jury member in the 2004 and 2006 photo contests and chaired the jury in 2008. Knight said, “The World Press Photo contest evolves every year as it seeks to adapt to the rapid changes in the media landscape. The very definition of what constitutes the press or what is a photograph has transformed since the award was instituted. World Press Photo takes its role as the world’s most prestigious and multi-genre global photojournalism award very seriously and as I look forward to chairing the jury again, there are new categories and a more diverse demographic of jurors to adapt to this changing topography. While the media landscape remains turbulent photojournalism and documentary photography are adaptive and very healthy.”

The 2014 contest will have several changes. Managing Director, World Press Photo, Michiel Munneke, said, “There has been a lot of discussion and widespread speculation regarding the permissible levels in post-processing of image files in the contest. We have evaluated the contest rules and protocols and examined how to create more transparency, and we have changed the procedures for examining the files during the judging. We will announce further details when the 2014 Photo Contest opens for entries, but the bottom line is that we will need to be able to rely on the integrity and professionalism of the participating photographers.”

The 2014 World Press Photo Contest will be open from December. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014. Entries may only be submitted online via the World Press Photo entry website. A user name and password are required to enter and can be requested from December 2013 onwards.

The deadline for requesting a user name and password is 9 January 2014, 23.59 CET. A total of 103,481 images were submitted to the 2013 contest with 5,666 photographers entering from 124 nations. The results of the contest will be announced on February 14, 2014 in a press conference and on the foundation’s website.

The prize-winning pictures will be presented in an exhibition which travels through more than 100 cities in over 45 countries, to start in Amsterdam April 18, 2014. The fourth World Press Photo multimedia contest will be held in March 2014. Details about the multimedia contest will be announced later this year.

Please visit http://www.worldpressphoto.org/2014-photo-contest for more information.


The World Press Photo of the Year for 2012 was taken by Swede Paul Hansen. It was shot in, Gaza City, in the Palestinian Territories. The bodies of two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his elder brother Muhammad, almost four, were carried by their uncles to a mosque for their funeral, in Gaza City. The children were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on 19 November.
The winning image for the World Press Photo award 2012 was taken in the Palestinian Territories by Swede Paul Hansen for Dagens Nyheter.

Italian Fabio Bucciarelli, Italy, Agence France-Presse, 2nd Prize Spot News Stories 10 October 2012, Aleppo, Syria. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up position in the Sulemain Halabi district, a rebel stronghold, during clashes with government forces. The Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo was the scene of some of the bloodiest clashes in the ongoing uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Both government and opposition forces considered control of Aleppo to be strategically important to their aims.
Second prize, Spot News Stories;  Fabio Bucciarelli, Italy, Agence France-Presse,  10 October 2012, Aleppo, Syria. A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up position in the Sulemain Halabi district, a rebel stronghold, during clashes with government forces.


First prize Sports, Sports Action Single; Wei Seng Chen, Malaysia, 12 February 2012, West Sumatra, Indonesia. A competitor and his charges reach the finish of a bull race, in Batu Sangkar, West Sumatra.


World Press Photo judge Gary Knight, image by Sophie Knight.

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