World Press Photo 2020

The World Press Photo Foundation announced the results of the 63rd annual World Press Photo Contest and the 10th annual World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest on its online channels on 16 April 2020.

The announcement included the winners of the World Press Photo of the Year, World Press Photo Story of the Year, World Press Photo Interactive of the Year, and World Press Photo Online Video of the Year. The winning images and productions were selected by an independent jury of visual journalism and digital storytelling professionals. 

The jury of the 2020 Photo Contest selected Yasuyoshi Chiba’s photograph Straight Voice as the World Press Photo of the Year. The winning image shows a young man, illuminated by mobile phones, reciting protest poetry while demonstrators chant slogans calling for civilian rule, during a blackout in Khartoum, Sudan, on 19 June 2019.