The winners of the regional stage of the prestigious World Press Photo competition have been announced. In 2023, 60,448 photos from 3,752 photographers from 127 countries were submitted for participation. Since last year, the competition has been held under new rules. To make the disproportion in the geography of the participants impossible, two stages were introduced.
The war in Ukraine has become one of the main topics of the photo contest. Among the laureates of the regional stage were the pictures that flew around the world.
In the category “Europe. Photoreport” won Ukrainian photographer Evgeny Maloletka. He filmed the moment when the Ukrainian military carried a pregnant woman out of the maternity hospital, which was subjected to Russian bombing. The footage of the destroyed maternity hospital has become one of the symbols of crimes against humanity committed by the Russian aggressors.
In Moscow, photos of Maloletka and his colleague Mstislav Chernov were called fake. Pregnant women taken by photographers were declared actresses by Russian propagandists.
But their efforts to deceive the world community were doomed. Pictures of Maloletka and Chernov have already won the Freedom of Speech Award from the German media company Deutsche Welle. Now one of these photos has won the World Press Photo competition.
“It so happened that we were nearby, we heard the sound of an airplane and immediately there was an explosion. He was not alone, but several at once. There was a very strong blast wave that shattered windows in houses nearby. Glass fell down our collars. There, at the maternity hospital, there was a big funnel. We saw that everything was broken there. People came out of the basement, shocked by all this. We saw how pregnant women are lowered and moved on stretchers.”- Evgeny Maloletka recalls.
The honorable mention went to Spanish photographer and Associated Press journalist Emilio Morenatti. His photographs show the suffering of civilians in Ukraine.
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Recall, an interview with the mother of Azov press officer Dmitry Kazatsky, whom the Western media called “the eyes of Azovstal.” It was thanks to his photographs that the world saw how steadfastly, with dignity and courage the defenders of Mariupol held out in extremely inhuman, terrible conditions.
Source: Fakty
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