Overview
- The World Press Photo foundation announced 42 regional winners Thursday, selecting from 3,747 photographers and 57,376 images across six regions and three categories.
- Spaniards Brais Lorenzo, Luis Tato and Diego Ibarra Sánchez were honored for work on Galicia’s 2025 wildfires, youth-led protests in Madagascar and a long-term project on children shut out of school by war.
- Lorenzo won Europe’s photo story award for Burned Land, documenting a season that Spanish outlets report scorched more than 200,000 hectares in Galicia in what they describe as Spain’s worst wildfires in three decades.
- Tato won Africa’s photo story award for covering Generation Z protests in Madagascar that began in September 2025 and, according to the UN, left at least 22 people dead as an elite army unit later sided with protesters and helped remove the president on October 14.
- Ibarra Sánchez earned the long-term project honor for Hijacked Education, begun in 2011 across nine countries, in a context where the UN estimates 85 million school-age children in conflict zones have no access to schooling.