Nominees for 2019 World Press Photo announced

21 February 2019
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The nominees for the 62nd edition of the World Press Photo Contest have been announced, with Australian Getty staff photographer Chris McGrath nominated for the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year for his image The Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi in the 'General News’ category.

Two Australian photographers have also received category nominee awards: Afghanistan-based Australian Andrew Quilty in the 'Spot news stories' category, for his series showing the aftermath of an ambulance packed with explosives that killed 103 people and injured 235 in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 27 January 2018, and Sydney Reuters photographer David Gray for his image of Naomi Osaka serving during her match against Simona Halep during the Australian Open tennis tournament in the 'Sports singles' category.

The Disappearance of Jamal Kashoggi. An unidentified man tries to hold back the press on 15 October, as Saudi investigators arrive at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, amid a growing international backlash to the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. © Chris McGrath, Getty Images.
The Disappearance of Jamal Kashoggi. An unidentified man tries to hold back the press on 15 October, as Saudi investigators arrive at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, amid a growing international backlash to the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. © Chris McGrath, Getty Images.
Victims lie along Chicken Street after the blast. Ambulance Bomb © Andrew Quilty, for The New York Times
Victims lie along Chicken Street after the blast. Ambulance Bomb © Andrew Quilty, for The New York Times
Sunlight Serve © David Gray, Reuters. Naomi Osaka serves during her match against Simona Halep from Romania during the Australian Open tennis tournament, at Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne, Australia, on 22 January.
Sunlight Serve © David Gray, Reuters. Naomi Osaka serves during her match against Simona Halep from Romania during the Australian Open tennis tournament, at Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne, Australia, on 22 January.

This year the contest saw 4,738 photographers from 129 countries enter 78,801 images. The 2019 edition also introduced a major new award: the World Press Photo Story of the Year. This honors the photographer whose visual creativity and skills produced a story with excellent editing and sequencing that captures or represents an event or issue of great journalistic importance in 2018.

The 2019 World Press Photo Contest nominees are 43 photographers from 25 countries, and of these nominees, 14 photographers are women (32%), a significant increase from the 2018 Photo Contest, when 12% of the nominees were female photographers.

Below you can see the nominees in both the single image and story categories, as a well as a selection of some of the category nominees in the competition.

World Press Photo of the Year nominees

Victims of an Alleged Gas Attack Receive Treatment in Eastern Ghouta. © Mohammed Badra, European Pressphoto Agency
Victims of an Alleged Gas Attack Receive Treatment in Eastern Ghouta. © Mohammed Badra, European Pressphoto Agency
The Disappearance of Jamal Kashoggi. An unidentified man tries to hold back the press on 15 October, as Saudi investigators arrive at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, amid a growing international backlash to the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. © Chris McGrath, Getty Images.
The Disappearance of Jamal Kashoggi. An unidentified man tries to hold back the press on 15 October, as Saudi investigators arrive at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, amid a growing international backlash to the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. © Chris McGrath, Getty Images.
Being Pregnant After FARC Child-Bearing Ban. Yorladis is pregnant for the sixth time, after five other pregnancies were terminated during her FARC years. She says she managed to hide the fifth pregnancy from her commander until the sixth month by wearing loose clothes. © Catalina Martin-Chico, Panos
Being Pregnant After FARC Child-Bearing Ban. Yorladis is pregnant for the sixth time, after five other pregnancies were terminated during her FARC years. She says she managed to hide the fifth pregnancy from her commander until the sixth month by wearing loose clothes. © Catalina Martin-Chico, Panos
Akashinga - the Brave Ones. Petronella Chigumbura (30), a member of an all-female anti-poaching unit called Akashinga, participates in stealth and concealment training in the Phundundu Wildlife Park, Zimbabwe. © Brent Stirton, Getty Images
Akashinga - the Brave Ones. Petronella Chigumbura (30), a member of an all-female anti-poaching unit called Akashinga, participates in stealth and concealment training in the Phundundu Wildlife Park, Zimbabwe. © Brent Stirton, Getty Images
Crying Girl on the Border. Yana, from Honduras, cries as her mother Sandra Sanchez is searched by a US Border Patrol agent, in McAllen, Texas, USA, on 12 June. © John Moore, Getty Images
Crying Girl on the Border. Yana, from Honduras, cries as her mother Sandra Sanchez is searched by a US Border Patrol agent, in McAllen, Texas, USA, on 12 June. © John Moore, Getty Images
Almajiri Boy. An orphaned boy walks past a wall with drawings depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in Bol, Chad. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto
Almajiri Boy. An orphaned boy walks past a wall with drawings depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in Bol, Chad. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto

World Press Photo Story of the Year nominees

Yemen Crisis by Lorenzo Tugnoli (Italy)

A woman begs outside a grocery store in Azzan, a pivotal southern crossroads town that had seesawed back and forth between government and insurgent forces, on 22 May. Yemen Crisis. © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto, for The Washington Post.
A woman begs outside a grocery store in Azzan, a pivotal southern crossroads town that had seesawed back and forth between government and insurgent forces, on 22 May. Yemen Crisis. © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto, for The Washington Post.
Taif Fares gasps for air in the intensive-care unit at al-Sadaqa hospital, Aden, on 21 May. She had a heart disorder and required constant care. Supplies of oxygen and medicine to the hospital had been discontinued, and, on 14 May, a violent confrontation between a member of the militia controlling the hospital and a doctor had led to doctors going on strike. Taif died a few days after the photograph was taken. Yemen Crisis. © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto, for The Washington Post.
Taif Fares gasps for air in the intensive-care unit at al-Sadaqa hospital, Aden, on 21 May. She had a heart disorder and required constant care. Supplies of oxygen and medicine to the hospital had been discontinued, and, on 14 May, a violent confrontation between a member of the militia controlling the hospital and a doctor had led to doctors going on strike. Taif died a few days after the photograph was taken. Yemen Crisis. © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto, for The Washington Post.
Wafa Ahmed Hathim (25) lost her left leg when a mortar landed on her house in the strategically important Red Sea port of Hudaydah on 8 December—at a time when long-negotiated peace talks were taking place in Sweden. Yemen Crisis. © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto, for The Washington Post.
Wafa Ahmed Hathim (25) lost her left leg when a mortar landed on her house in the strategically important Red Sea port of Hudaydah on 8 December—at a time when long-negotiated peace talks were taking place in Sweden. Yemen Crisis. © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto, for The Washington Post.
A militiaman stands in a frontline position outside the besieged city of Taiz, on 26 November. Aid and supplies could be delivered to the city only along a road under control of the Saudi coalition. Yemen Crisis. © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto, for The Washington Post.
A militiaman stands in a frontline position outside the besieged city of Taiz, on 26 November. Aid and supplies could be delivered to the city only along a road under control of the Saudi coalition. Yemen Crisis. © Lorenzo Tugnoli, Contrasto, for The Washington Post.

The Lake Chad Crisis, Marco Gualazzini, Italy, Contrasto

Almajiri Boy. An orphaned boy walks past a wall with drawings depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in Bol, Chad. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto
Almajiri Boy. An orphaned boy walks past a wall with drawings depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in Bol, Chad. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto
The Lake Chad Crisis. Ababakar Mbomi, an anti-Jihad activist in Melea, Chad, was shot 11 times when Boko Haram tried to kidnap his wife in 2014. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto
The Lake Chad Crisis. Ababakar Mbomi, an anti-Jihad activist in Melea, Chad, was shot 11 times when Boko Haram tried to kidnap his wife in 2014. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto
The Lake Chad Crisis. Men punt a pirogue through marshy cane thicket at the lake’s edge. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto
The Lake Chad Crisis. Men punt a pirogue through marshy cane thicket at the lake’s edge. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto
The Lake Chad Crisis. Women gather water from the lake. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto.
The Lake Chad Crisis. Women gather water from the lake. © Marco Gualazzini, Contrasto.

The Migrant Caravan by Pieter Ten Hoopen (Netherlands/Sweden)

A father and son sleep after a long day’s walking, Juchitán, 30 October 2018. © Pieter Ten Hoopen, Agence Vu/Civilian Act
A father and son sleep after a long day’s walking, Juchitán, 30 October 2018. © Pieter Ten Hoopen, Agence Vu/Civilian Act
Families bathe, wash clothes and relax beside the Rio Novillero, when the caravan takes a rest day near Tapanatepec. © Pieter Ten Hoopen, Agence Vu/Civilian Act
Families bathe, wash clothes and relax beside the Rio Novillero, when the caravan takes a rest day near Tapanatepec. © Pieter Ten Hoopen, Agence Vu/Civilian Act
People run to a truck that has stopped to give them a ride, outside Tapanatepec, Mexico, on 30 October 2018. Some drivers charged to give travelers a lift for part of the way, but most offered services free as a sign of support. © Pieter Ten Hoopen, Agence Vu/Civilian Act
People run to a truck that has stopped to give them a ride, outside Tapanatepec, Mexico, on 30 October 2018. Some drivers charged to give travelers a lift for part of the way, but most offered services free as a sign of support. © Pieter Ten Hoopen, Agence Vu/Civilian Act
A girl pick flowers during the day’s walk from Tapanatepec to Niltepec, a distance of 50 km. © Pieter Ten Hoopen, Agence Vu/Civilian Act
A girl pick flowers during the day’s walk from Tapanatepec to Niltepec, a distance of 50 km. © Pieter Ten Hoopen, Agence Vu/Civilian Act

Category nominees

Afghan Refugees Waiting to Cross the Iranian Border. © Enayat Asadi
Afghan Refugees Waiting to Cross the Iranian Border. © Enayat Asadi
Male Rape. Former US marine Ethan Hanson bathes at home in Austin, Minnesota, USA, after a sexual trauma experienced during his military service left him unable to take showers. © Mary F. Calvert
Male Rape. Former US marine Ethan Hanson bathes at home in Austin, Minnesota, USA, after a sexual trauma experienced during his military service left him unable to take showers. © Mary F. Calvert
The Cubanitas. Pura rides around her neighborhood in a pink 1950s convertible, as the community gathers to celebrate her fifteenth birthday, in Havana, Cuba. © Diana Markosian, Magnum Photos
The Cubanitas. Pura rides around her neighborhood in a pink 1950s convertible, as the community gathers to celebrate her fifteenth birthday, in Havana, Cuba. © Diana Markosian, Magnum Photos
Still Life Volcano. The living-room of an abandoned home in San Miguel Los Lotes, Guatemala, lies covered in ash after the eruption of Volcán de Fuego on 3 June 2018. © Daniele Volpe
Still Life Volcano. The living-room of an abandoned home in San Miguel Los Lotes, Guatemala, lies covered in ash after the eruption of Volcán de Fuego on 3 June 2018. © Daniele Volpe
US President Donald Trump leads France’s President Emmanuel Macron by the hand while walking to the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington DC, on 24 April 2018. Unilateral. © Brendan Smialowski, Agence France-Presse
US President Donald Trump leads France’s President Emmanuel Macron by the hand while walking to the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington DC, on 24 April 2018. Unilateral. © Brendan Smialowski, Agence France-Presse
Survival Instinct. Frogs with their legs severed and surrounded by frogspawn struggle to the surface, after being thrown back into the water in Covasna, Eastern Carpathians, Romania, in April 2018. © Bence Máté
Survival Instinct. Frogs with their legs severed and surrounded by frogspawn struggle to the surface, after being thrown back into the water in Covasna, Eastern Carpathians, Romania, in April 2018. © Bence Máté
Glass Butterfly. A winged comb jelly, Leucothea multicornis, its wings widely opened, propels itself through waters off Alicante, Spain. © Angel Fitor
Glass Butterfly. A winged comb jelly, Leucothea multicornis, its wings widely opened, propels itself through waters off Alicante, Spain. © Angel Fitor
Shields Strikes Back. Olympic champion Claressa Shields (right) meets Hanna Gabriels in a boxing match at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on 22 June. © Terrell Groggins
Shields Strikes Back. Olympic champion Claressa Shields (right) meets Hanna Gabriels in a boxing match at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on 22 June. © Terrell Groggins
Flamingo Socks. A Caribbean flamingo inspects the improvised socks created to help heal its severe foot lesions, at the Fundashon Dier en Onderwijs Cariben, Curaçao. © Jasper Doest.
Flamingo Socks. A Caribbean flamingo inspects the improvised socks created to help heal its severe foot lesions, at the Fundashon Dier en Onderwijs Cariben, Curaçao. © Jasper Doest.

The winners of the 2019 Photo Contest and the 2019 Digital Storytelling Contest will be announced at the Awards Show taking place on 11 April in Amsterdam. 

An independent jury covering a wide range of photography backgrounds–from six global regions, with an equal number of men and women–selected the 2019 World Press Photo Contest nominees. Whitney C. Johnson, vice president, Visuals and Immersive Experiences at National Geographic, is the chair of the 2019 Photo Contest’s general jury. 

You can see all the nominees and category nominees for every category at World Press Photo.

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