IN PICTURE. World Press Photo Award winners announced | Abroad

Canadian photographer Amber Bracken has won the World Press Photo of the Year. That is the prize for the best press photo of the past year. The winning photo, Kamloops Residential School, was taken in Canada where the bodies of 215 children were found in an anonymous mass grave last year.

They were children of the original inhabitants of Canada who were re-educated in a boarding school near the cemetery until the 1960s. Last year, crosses were placed with dresses fluttering on them to honor them.

The prize for the best long-term photo project went to the Brazilian Lalo de Almeida, who spent several years working on a photo reportage in the Amazon forest. Since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power, that has again been severely affected. The exploitation of the Amazon rainforest has a major impact on the 350 different indigenous groups that still live there.

In the category “Open format” Isadora Romero from Ecuador won with her project “Blood is a seed”. The video consists of photos. It is about the disappearance of seeds, compulsory migration, colonization and the loss of handed down knowledge.

World Press Photo 2022 category ‘Photo Story’ winner is Matthew Abbott from Australia, with his series for National Geographic. Members of the Australian Nawarddeken tribe are setting fires in parts of their more than half a million hectares of territory in a controlled manner to prevent larger fires.