World Press Photo of the Year: “A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece.” Inas Abu Maamar holds the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in a missile strike, in a hospital morgue in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Oct. 17. On Oct. 7, a new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict broke out after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Photo: Mohammed Salem/WPP
World Press Photo Story of the Year: Valim-babena. “Dada Paul” and his granddaughter Odliatemix prepare to go to church in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on March 12, 2023. Dada Paul, 91, has had dementia for 11 years. For a long time his family put it down to excessive drinking or other mental illness. Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage/WPP
Dada Paul attends a church service in Antananarivo on March 12, 2023. Due to the lack of public awareness of dementia, some people who show symptoms of memory loss due to dementia often suffer from stigma. Many people interpret these symptoms as signs of witchcraft, demonic possession, or "madness." Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage/WPP
Dada Paul cleans fish with trembling hands from a basin on March 12, 2023. In Madagascar, the World Health Organization estimates that about 40,000 people have Alzheimer’s disease. Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage/WPP
World Press Photo Story of the Year: Valim-babena. Fara Rafaraniriana takes her daughter and her father Dada Paul to church on Sunday morning on March 12, 2023. Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage/WPP
World Press Photo Story of the Year: Valim-babena. Children play outside a church. Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage/WPP
World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award: The Two Walls. A migrant walks on top of a freight train in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Oct. 8, 2023. Migrants with less money often use freight trains to get to the U.S. border. Photo: Alejandro Cegarra/WPP
World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award: The Two Walls. Ruben Soto (right), a migrant from Venezuela, sits on top of a freight train with Rosa Bello, a migrant from Honduras, in Samalayuca, Mexico, on May 8, 2023. The two met in Mexico and fell in love while traveling to the United States. Photo: Alejandro Cegarra/WPP
World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award: The Two Walls. Migrants use homemade ladders to climb a border wall with the help of smugglers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on April 1, 2021. Photo: Alejandro Cegarra/WPP
World Press Photo Long-term Project Award: The Two Walls. Asylum seekers from Venezuela protest on the roof of an immigration station in Tapachula, Mexico, on June 22, 2022. Photo: Alejandro Cegarra/WPP
World Press Photo Long-term Project Award: The Two Walls. On Oct. 7, 2023, a couple and their 4-year-old daughter hide in an abandoned house in front of the Mexico-U.S. border in Piedra Negras, Mexico. Photo: Alejandro Cegarra/WPP
World Press Photo Long-term Project Award: The Two Walls. Asylum seekers wait at the gate of the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees in Tapachula, Mexico, on June 18, 2019, to attend a hearing, hoping to obtain humanitarian visas that will allow them to stay in Mexico or travel through Mexico to the United States. Photo: Alejandro Cegarra/WPP
World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award: The Two Walls. Ever Sosa (center) carries his daughter on his shoulders as he crosses the Suciat River from Guatemala to Mexico on Jan. 20, 2023. Photo: Alejandro Cegarra/WPP
Asian Long-term Project Award: I Am Still With You. This series of works is a private visual record that explores the concept of family photos. In close collaboration with the family, the photographer tells the story of Jiuer, a young mother of three in northern China who gains more understanding and appreciation for life in her final years after being diagnosed with cancer. Photo: Wang Naigong/WPP
World Press Photo Open Format Award: War is Personal. This web-based project brings together photojournalism with the documentary style of a personal diary to show the world what it is like to live with war as an everyday reality. Photo: Julia Kochetova/WWP