AP image of Mariupol hospital attack wins 'World Press Photo of the Year' award

Iryna Kalinina, 32, an injured pregnant woman, is carried from a maternity hospital that was damaged during a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9 2022. Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday, April 20, 2023, for this harrowing image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the chaotic aftermath of a Russian attack. The Ukrainian photographer’s image of the fatally wounded woman, her left hand on her bloodied lower left abdomen, drove home the horror of Russia’s brutal onslaught in the eastern port city early in the war., Iryna Kalinina died of her injuries a half hour after giving birth to the lifeless body of her baby named Miron.

Janna Goma and her family settled in a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022.

This image provided by World Press Photo is part of a series titled The Price of Peace in Afghanistan which won the World Press Photo Stories award by photographer Mads Nissen, Politiken / Panos Pictures, shows unable to afford food for the family, the parents of Khalil Ahmad, 15, decided to sell his kidney for US$3,500.

This image provided by World Press Photo is part of a series titled The Price of Peace in Afghanistan which won the World Press Photo Stories award by photographer Mads Nissen, Politiken / Panos Pictures, shows unable to afford food for the family, the parents of Khalil Ahmad, 15, decided to sell his kidney for US$3,500. Israeli police clash with mourners as they carry the coffin of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem on May 13, 2022. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American reporter who covered the Mideast conflict for over 25 years, was shot dead two days earlier during an Israeli military raid in the West Bank town of Jenin. For the Associated Press, Photographer Maya Levin won the Asia Singles Category of the World Press Photo Contest.

Anton Gladun, 22, lies on his bed at the Third City Hospital, in Cherkasy, Ukraine, on May 5, 2022. Gladun, a military medic deployed on the front lines in eastern Ukraine, lost both legs and his left arm in a mine explosion on March 27. Photographer Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press, was awarded an honourable mention in the Europe category of the World Press Photo Contest.

This image provided by World Press Photo is part of a series titled The Price of Peace in Afghanistan which won the World Press Photo Stories award by photographer Mads Nissen, Politiken / Panos Pictures, shows Women and children beg for bread outside a bakery in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 14, 2022.

A heavily armed Taliban checkpoint outside Bamiyan.

Serhiy Kralya, a civilian injured during shelling by Russian forces, rests after surgery at a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, on 11 March 2022. Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo Europe Stories Award with this image which was part of a series of images titled The Siege of Mariupol, and won the World Press Photo of the Year award.

A photo from a part of a series titled Battered Waters which won the World Press Photo Long Term Projects award by photographer Anush Babajanyan, VII Photo for National Geographic Society, shows Women visit a hot spring that has emerged from the dried bed of the Aral Sea, near Akespe village, Kazakhstan, on 27 August 2019. Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has lost 90 percent of its content since river water has been diverted.

This image provided by World Press Photo is part of a series titled Battered Waters which won the World Press Photo Long Term Projects award by photographer Anush Babajanyan, VII Photo for National Geographic Society, shows silt in the Amu Darya in Uzbekistan which gives the water a dark red color, as water levels in the river continue to decrease, Oct. 28, 2019.

Visitors photographing the Rogun Dam, being built in eastern Tajikistan to provide hydroelectric power, on 22 March 2022. The 335-meter-high dam is due for completion in 2028-2029.

World Press Photo open format award | Here, the doors don’t know me: This web-based project explores the effects of rising seas on the local community in Al-Max, a fishing village situated along the Mahmoudiyah canal in Alexandria, Egypt. For generations, its residents have lived and worked on the canal that leads to the Mediterranean Sea. In 2020, the Egyptian government began evicting parts of Al-Max and relocating people to housing away from the canals, not only demolishing homes, but also endangering the collective memories and local culture

Africa | Singles | The Big Forget: Sugri Zenabu, a mangazia (female community leader) of the Gambaga ‘witch camp’, sits encircled by residents in Ghana, 27 October 2022. Zenabu shows some signs of confusion and memory loss associated with dementia. As life expectancy rises, dementia is increasingly becoming a public health and socio-cultural issue in Ghana and across Africa.

South America | Singles | Oil Spill in Lima: Workers deal with the environmental disaster caused by an oil spill at Repsol’s nearby La Pampilla refinery at Playa Cavero, Peru, 21 January 2022. On 15 January, nearly 12,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the sea while a tanker was unloading at the Spanish transnational oil company’s refinery. The spill extended over 7 sq km, polluting beaches, killing wildlife, and impacting livelihoods, in what the government termed the country’s worst ecological disaster in recent memory. UN experts believe its effects will last up to 10 years

South-east Asia and Oceania | Singles | Retrieving the Dead: Resistance fighters from the People’s Defence Forces retreat with the body of a comrade after a clash with the military in Moe Bye, Kayah state, Myanmar, 21 February 2022. Authorities had sent reinforcements to the region as fighting with local opposition groups intensified. The PDF fights alongside regional and ethnic armed groups also opposed to Myanmar’s military dictatorship. It is the armed wing of a parallel government that was formed primarily by ousted democratic lawmakers in the wake of a military coup in Myanmar in 2021