• The World Press Photo of the Year. © Ronaldo Schemidt.
    The World Press Photo of the Year. © Ronaldo Schemidt.
  • Boko Haram Strapped Suicide Bombs to Them. Somehow These Teenage Girls Survived. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Adam Ferguson. Aisha (14) stands for a portrait in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. After being kidnapped by Boko Haram, Aisha was assigned a suicide bombing mission, but managed to escape and find help instead of detonating the bombs. Commissioned by The New York Times.
    Boko Haram Strapped Suicide Bombs to Them. Somehow These Teenage Girls Survived. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Adam Ferguson. Aisha (14) stands for a portrait in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. After being kidnapped by Boko Haram, Aisha was assigned a suicide bombing mission, but managed to escape and find help instead of detonating the bombs. Commissioned by The New York Times.
  • The Battle for Mosul. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Ivor Prickett. Civilians who had remained in west Mosul after the battle to take the city line up for aid in the Mamun neighbourhood. Commissioned by The New York Times.
    The Battle for Mosul. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Ivor Prickett. Civilians who had remained in west Mosul after the battle to take the city line up for aid in the Mamun neighbourhood. Commissioned by The New York Times.
  • The Battle for Mosul. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Ivor Prickett. An unidentified young boy, who was carried out of the last ISIS-controlled area in the Old City by a man suspected of being a militant, is cared for by Iraqi Special Forces soldiers. Commissioned by The New York Times.
    The Battle for Mosul. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Ivor Prickett. An unidentified young boy, who was carried out of the last ISIS-controlled area in the Old City by a man suspected of being a militant, is cared for by Iraqi Special Forces soldiers. Commissioned by The New York Times.
  • Rohingya Crisis. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Patrick Brown. The bodies of Rohingya refugees are laid out after the boat in which they were attempting to flee Myanmar capsized about eight kilometers off Inani Beach, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Around 100 people were on the boat before it capsized. There were 17 survivors. The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim minority group in Rakhine State, western Myanmar. They number around one million people, but laws passed in the 1980s effectively deprived them of Myanmar citizenship. Violence erupted in Myanmar on 25 August after a faction of Rohingya militants attacked police posts, killing 12 members of the Myanmar security forces. Myanmar authorities, in places supported by groups of Buddhists, launched a crackdown, attacking Rohingya villages and burning houses. Commissioned by Panos Pictures, for UNICEF.
    Rohingya Crisis. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Patrick Brown. The bodies of Rohingya refugees are laid out after the boat in which they were attempting to flee Myanmar capsized about eight kilometers off Inani Beach, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Around 100 people were on the boat before it capsized. There were 17 survivors. The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim minority group in Rakhine State, western Myanmar. They number around one million people, but laws passed in the 1980s effectively deprived them of Myanmar citizenship. Violence erupted in Myanmar on 25 August after a faction of Rohingya militants attacked police posts, killing 12 members of the Myanmar security forces. Myanmar authorities, in places supported by groups of Buddhists, launched a crackdown, attacking Rohingya villages and burning houses. Commissioned by Panos Pictures, for UNICEF.
  • Witnessing the Immediate Aftermath of an Attack in the Heart of London. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Toby Melville. A passerby comforts an injured woman after Khalid Masood drove his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London, UK, killing five and injuring multiple others. Commissioned by Reuters.
    Witnessing the Immediate Aftermath of an Attack in the Heart of London. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Toby Melville. A passerby comforts an injured woman after Khalid Masood drove his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London, UK, killing five and injuring multiple others. Commissioned by Reuters.
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Australian photographers shine as 61st World Press Photo award winner announced

18 April 2018
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The World Press Photo winner for 2018 has been announced, with Mexico-based photographer Ronaldo Schemidt winning the prestigious award for excellence in photojournalism.

Australian photographers Adam Ferguson (New York Times) and Patrick Brown (Panos Pictures for Unicef) were also nominated for the award that honors the photographer whose visual creativity and skills made a picture that captures or represents an event or issue of great journalistic importance in the last year.

The jury "needed to consider an event or issue that was significant in 2017 and then a photo that best represented that event or issue" in order to choose the winning images.

The World Press Photo of the Year. © Ronaldo Schemidt.
The World Press Photo of the Year. © Ronaldo Schemidt.

Chaired by Magdalena Herrera, the jury awarded the World Press Photo of the Year prize to Ronaldo Schemidt’s picture entitled ‘Venezuela Crisis’–which also won first prize in the Spot News Single category. The image shows José Víctor Salazar Balza (28) on fire amid violent clashes with riot police during a protest against President Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Salazar was set alight when the gas tank of a motorbike exploded. He survived the incident with first- and second-degree burns. Schemidt is a staff photographer for Agence France-Presse, based in Mexico.

Boko Haram Strapped Suicide Bombs to Them. Somehow These Teenage Girls Survived. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Adam Ferguson. Aisha (14) stands for a portrait in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. After being kidnapped by Boko Haram, Aisha was assigned a suicide bombing mission, but managed to escape and find help instead of detonating the bombs. Commissioned by The New York Times.
Boko Haram Strapped Suicide Bombs to Them. Somehow These Teenage Girls Survived. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Adam Ferguson. Aisha (14) stands for a portrait in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. After being kidnapped by Boko Haram, Aisha was assigned a suicide bombing mission, but managed to escape and find help instead of detonating the bombs. Commissioned by The New York Times.
Rohingya Crisis. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Patrick Brown. The bodies of Rohingya refugees are laid out after the boat in which they were attempting to flee Myanmar capsized about eight kilometers off Inani Beach, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Around 100 people were on the boat before it capsized. There were 17 survivors. The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim minority group in Rakhine State, western Myanmar. They number around one million people, but laws passed in the 1980s effectively deprived them of Myanmar citizenship. Violence erupted in Myanmar on 25 August after a faction of Rohingya militants attacked police posts, killing 12 members of the Myanmar security forces. Myanmar authorities, in places supported by groups of Buddhists, launched a crackdown, attacking Rohingya villages and burning houses. Commissioned by Panos Pictures, for UNICEF.
Rohingya Crisis. World Press Photo of the Year Nominee. © Patrick Brown. The bodies of Rohingya refugees are laid out after the boat in which they were attempting to flee Myanmar capsized about eight kilometers off Inani Beach, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Around 100 people were on the boat before it capsized. There were 17 survivors. The Rohingya are a predominantly Muslim minority group in Rakhine State, western Myanmar. They number around one million people, but laws passed in the 1980s effectively deprived them of Myanmar citizenship. Violence erupted in Myanmar on 25 August after a faction of Rohingya militants attacked police posts, killing 12 members of the Myanmar security forces. Myanmar authorities, in places supported by groups of Buddhists, launched a crackdown, attacking Rohingya villages and burning houses. Commissioned by Panos Pictures, for UNICEF.

The contest attracted entries from 4,548 photographers from 125 countries, with 73,044 images submitted, with a total of 42 photographers from 22 countries awarded in eight categories. The jury is independent, and all entries were presented to them anonymously.

Also nominated for the World Press Photo of the Year are (in alphabetical order by photographer):

Rohingya Crisis
Patrick Brown, Australia, Panos Pictures, for Unicef

Boko Haram Strapped Suicide Bombs to Them. Somehow These Teenage Girls Survived. - Aisha, age 14.
Adam Ferguson, Australia, for The New York Times

Witnessing the Immediate Aftermath of an Attack in the Heart of London
Toby Melville, UK, Reuters

The Battle for Mosul - Lined Up for an Aid Distribution
Ivor Prickett, Ireland, for The New York Times

The Battle for Mosul - Young Boy Is Cared for by Iraqi Special Forces Soldiers
Ivor Prickett, Ireland, for The New York Times

You can see the full gallery of nominated images here. The World Press Photo exhibition will be displayed in Sydney from 26 May to 24 June at the State Library for NSW.

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