Tag: World Press Photo

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  World Press Photo Award for a photo that made history and changed policy

  

  The haunting image of a little girl crying helplessly as she and her mother are taken into custody by US border officials on Thursday won the prestigious World Press Photo Award.

• Friday, April 13th 2018 - 09:17 UTC

  Photo of the year: Venezuelan Ronaldo Schemidt wins the World Press Photo

  

  Venezuelan photographer Ronaldo Schemidt received on Thursday the World Press Photo of the year in Amsterdam, one of the most prestigious in photojournalism, for a photograph shot in May 2017 during the protests in Venezuela while working for Agence France-Presse (AFP) . In the photograph a protester appears in flames, in front of a graffiti in which a weapon appears shooting at the word “peace”.