World Press Photo shows the most confronting news photos

The confrontational image of the siege of Mariupol is the overall winner of the World Press Photo 2023. The Ukrainian Evgeniy Maloletka captures the human suffering of the Russian invasion in one image. We see (see photo below) the heavily pregnant Irina being carried away on a stretcher to the bombed-out maternity hospital in Mariupol.

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Nick Hannes has also been selected this year. The Antwerp native travels the world as a photojournalist. He focuses on the guest workers who are building a new capital in the Egyptian desert heat.

Knokke-Heist is World Press Photo’s first foreign stop on a tour of the most important cities in the world. The World Press Photo selection of the winning photos can be viewed until mid-August in the garden of the Scharpoord cultural centre.