World Press Photo 2021: Italian Photographers Win Multiple Awards
The World Press Photo 2021 winners have been announced, with Danish photographer Mads Nissen winning World Press Photo of the Year for "The First Embrace," depicting Rosa Luzia Lunardi embraced by nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza at a care home in São Paulo, Brazil. Italian photographer Antonio Faccilongo won World Press Photo Story of the Year for "Habibi," a series on love stories amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other Italian winners include Gabriele Galimberti in Portraits (stories) for "The 'Ameriguns'" (National Geographic) and Lorenzo Tugnoli in Spot News (stories) for "Port Explosion in Beirut" (Contrasto). Tugnoli previously won in General News in 2019. The contest received a record 74,470 images from 4,315 photographers across 130 countries.
Key facts
- Mads Nissen won World Press Photo of the Year 2021 for 'The First Embrace'.
- The photo shows Rosa Luzia Lunardi and nurse Adriana Silva da Costa Souza in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Antonio Faccilongo won World Press Photo Story of the Year for 'Habibi'.
- 'Habibi' documents love stories during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Gabriele Galimberti won in Portraits (stories) for 'The Ameriguns' for National Geographic.
- Lorenzo Tugnoli won in Spot News (stories) for 'Port Explosion in Beirut' for Contrasto.
- Tugnoli previously won World Press Photo in General News in 2019.
- The contest received 74,470 images from 4,315 photographers in 130 countries.
Entities
Artists
- Mads Nissen
- Antonio Faccilongo
- Gabriele Galimberti
- Lorenzo Tugnoli
- Rosa Luzia Lunardi
- Adriana Silva da Costa Souza
- Kevin WY Lee
- Ahmed Najm
- Pablo Tosco
- Alexey Vasilyev
- Ralph Pace
- Lalo de Almeida
- Valery Melnikov
- Ami Vitale
- Jasper Doest
- Oleg Ponomarev
- Adam Pretty
- Chris Donovan
- Evelyn Hockstein
Institutions
- World Press Photo
- National Geographic
- Contrasto
- Getty Reportage
- The Washington Post
- CNN
- Folha de São Paulo
- Panos Pictures
- Sputnik
- Getty Images
- Metrography Agency
- Artribune
Locations
- São Paulo
- Brazil
- Italy
- Rome
- Denmark
- Argentina
- Russia
- United States
- Brasil
- Netherlands
- Canada
- Australia
- Beirut
- Lebanon
- Yemen
- Palestine
- Israel