The Associated Press’s Yevgeny Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the Year award on the 20th for a gruesome image of first responders carrying a full-term pregnant woman on a stretcher at a maternity clinic in Mariupol, Ukraine, which was devastated by the Russian attack. (World Press Photo of the year).
Taken on March 9, 2022, this photo from Maloletka conveys the horrors of the brutal Russian assault on the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol by showing a mortally wounded pregnant woman with her left hand resting on her bloody left lower abdomen. are doing
The 32-year-old pregnant woman, Irina Kalinina, also died 30 minutes after giving birth to a stillborn baby, Miron.
“For me, that moment is something I always want to forget, but it is also an unforgettable moment,” Malletka said. That story will always be with me,” she said.
“Maloletka captured one of the most important images of the Russo-Ukrainian War under incredibly difficult circumstances,” AP Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Julie Pace said. Without his indomitable courage, one of Russia’s most brutal attacks would have gone unnoticed. I am very proud of him,” he said.
“I think it’s really important that Ukrainians are suspicious of photos showing Russian atrocities against civilians,” said Maloletka, a Ukrainian national. It is important that these photos have become evidence of war crimes against Ukrainians.”
Meanwhile, in the other three world categories announced on the day, Mad Nissen from Denmark, who won the World Press Photography Award twice, won the ‘Photo of the Year’ with a series of photos titled “Afghan Peace Prize” about daily life in Afghanistan in 2022. Story’ award, Anussi Babajanyan of Armenia won the Long Term Project Award for ‘Battered Waters’, and Egyptian photographer Mohamed Madhi received the Open Format Award for ‘Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me’. Awarded.
The winners were selected from over 60,000 photos submitted by 3,752 applicants from 127 countries for the World Press Photo Awards in four categories.
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