PHOTO PACKAGE: World Press Photo 2021 Winners

April 15, 2021

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World Press Photo is an independent nonprofit organization that supports photojournalism. For this year's awards, judges reviewed 74,470 photographs taken by 4,315 photographers. The winners of the prestigious international contest were announced on April 15.

Here is a selection of the winning images. (23 PHOTOS)

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Rosa Luzia Lunardi (85) is embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, at Viva Bem care home, São Paulo, Brazil, on August 5, 2020. Story: This was the first hug Rosa had received in five months. In March, care homes across the country had closed their doors to all visitors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing millions of Brazilians from visiting their elderly relatives. Carers were ordered to keep physical contact with the vulnerable to an absolute minimum. At Viva Bem, a simple invention, ‘The Hug Curtain', allowed people to hug each other once again.  World Press Photo of the Year: Winner - Mads Nissen, Politiken/Panos Pictures — 1 Rosa Luzia Lunardi (85) is embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza, at Viva Bem care home, São Paulo, Brazil, on August 5, 2020. Story: This was the first hug Rosa had received in five months. In March, care homes across the country had closed their doors to all visitors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing millions of Brazilians from visiting their elderly relatives. Carers were ordered to keep physical contact with the vulnerable to an absolute minimum. At Viva Bem, a simple invention, ‘The Hug Curtain', allowed people to hug each other once again.

World Press Photo of the Year: Winner - Mads Nissen, Politiken/Panos Pictures

Part of a series titled Habibi. Nael al-Barghouthi's suit remains hanging in his bedroom in Kobar, near Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, on August 17, 2015. Al-Barghouthi's wife, Iman Nafi, keeps all her husband's clothes and belongings in place. Al-Barghouthi was arrested in 1978 after an anti-Israel commando operation. He was released in 2011, married Iman Nafi, but re-arrested in 2014 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He has spent more than 40 years in prison, the longest-serving Palestinian inmate in Israeli jails. World Press Photo Story of the Year: Winner - Antonio Faccilongo, Getty Reportage — 2 Part of a series titled Habibi. Nael al-Barghouthi's suit remains hanging in his bedroom in Kobar, near Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, on August 17, 2015. Al-Barghouthi's wife, Iman Nafi, keeps all her husband's clothes and belongings in place. Al-Barghouthi was arrested in 1978 after an anti-Israel commando operation. He was released in 2011, married Iman Nafi, but re-arrested in 2014 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He has spent more than 40 years in prison, the longest-serving Palestinian inmate in Israeli jails.

World Press Photo Story of the Year: Winner - Antonio Faccilongo, Getty Reportage

Part of a series titled Paradise Lost. Areg sits outside a burning house in the village of Karegakh, Nagorno-Karabakh, on 25 November 2020. Some village residents burned their houses before leaving areas that were to return to Azerbaijani control following the November peace agreement.  General News: First Prize, Stories - Valery Melnikov, Sputnik — 3 Part of a series titled Paradise Lost. Areg sits outside a burning house in the village of Karegakh, Nagorno-Karabakh, on 25 November 2020. Some village residents burned their houses before leaving areas that were to return to Azerbaijani control following the November peace agreement.

General News: First Prize, Stories - Valery Melnikov, Sputnik

A man and woman disagree on the removal of the Emancipation Memorial, in Lincoln Park, Washington DC, USA, on June 25, 2020.  Spot News: First Prize, Singles - Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post — 4 A man and woman disagree on the removal of the Emancipation Memorial, in Lincoln Park, Washington DC, USA, on June 25, 2020.

Spot News: First Prize, Singles - Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post

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