World Press Photo Foundation announces today the regional winners of the World Press Photo 2025 contest. Presented from August 27 to October 13, 2025 at the Bonsecours Market in Old Montreal, the World Press Photo Montreal Exhibition is one of the most popular in the world.

This year, the awarded photographs were selected from 59,320 entries received from 3,778 photographers from 141 countries

138 photos were crowned winners, taken by 42 photographers from 30 countries.

“We made our choices with an eye on the final mix. As much as the World Press Photo Contest award is an immense recognition for photographers, often working under difficult circumstances, it is also a recap of the world’s major events, however incomplete. As a jury we were looking for pictures that people can start conversations around.” declared Global jury chair, Lucy Conticello, Director of Photography for M, Le Monde’s weekend magazine

Key themes this year range from politics, and gender, and migration, to conflict, and the climate crisis. Images of protests and uprisings in Kenya, Myanmar, Haiti, El Salvador and Georgia, sit alongside unexpected portraits of those in political power in the USA and Germany.

Category Winners and the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year will be announced April 17