Once again this year Palazzo Esposizioni Roma will host the exhibition presenting the winning photos of the prestigious photojournalism contest that has rewarded the best professional photographers every year since 1955, helping to build the history of visual journalism worldwide. The winners of the 2025 edition were selected from about 60 thousand entries received by 3,778 photographers from 141 countries. The exhibition presents a total of 42 projects, divided into 3 categories (single photographs, photo stories, and long-term projects) and coming from the 6 regions into which the competition divides global participation (Africa, Asia-Pacific and Oceania, Europe, North and Central America, South America, and West, Central, and South Asia).
The selected projects address some of the most pressing social issues facing the world today, particularly migration, conflict and the climate crisis. The overall winner of the competition is Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf with a shot taken for The New York Times: a photo depicting Mahmoud Ajjour, a 9-year-old boy who was severely injured during an Israeli attack in Gaza City in March 2024. The other two finalist works for the Photo of the Year award are American photographer John Moore’s “Night Crossing”, about the phenomenon of migration on the US-Mexico border, and Musuk Nolte’s “Droughts in the Amazon”, which depicts the consequences of drought on a small community in the Amazon, with a young man forced to walk across the dry Solimões Riverbed to reach his mother’s village.
Droughts in the Amazon © Musuk Nolte, Panos Pictures, Bertha Foundation
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