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The 2025 World Press Photo Contest works with 6 worldwide regions – Africa; West, Central, and South Asia; Europe; North and Central America; South America; and Asia Pacific and Oceania. Entries will ...

The photographers who enter the World Press Photo Contest use their creative, technical, and journalistic skills to produce visually compelling insights about our world. The following information ...

The following information is applicable for all categories. In the manipulation review workflow, a contest entry and its original version are loaded as separate layers in Adobe Photoshop. The two ...

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There are four main steps to complete when entering the 2025 World Press Photo Contest. Read more here. What are the main changes to the 2025 Contest? With the 2025 World Press Photo Contest, there ...

Captions must be accurate and answer the five basic questions of good journalism (who, what, where, when, why). All entries must have accurate captions and descriptions, written in English. If the ...

The judging process of the 2025 World Press Photo Contest takes place in several rounds over a six-week period, in January and February 2025. It involves regional juries and a global jury, and takes ...

The World Press Photo Contest rewards the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the past year. The criteria for entries is that they are accurate and visually compelling insights about ...

In order to ensure fair and effective judging of the 2025 Contest we ask for the following file requirements from entries. In addition to the judging the file requirements are also necessary for ...

that the processed colors diverge from the original colors. (ii) Changes in density, contrast, color and/or saturation levels that significantly alter content by obscuring or eliminating information ...