These are the best photos in the world

KATHMANDU: FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2021 – Danish photojournalist Mads Nissen’s photo won the World Press Photo of the Year award this year.

Nissen’s “The First Embrace” photo won the best Photo of the Year award.

Mads Nissen, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year award, was photographed by a nurse hugging an elderly woman at a care center inSão Paulo, Brazil, a country heavily affected by the corona.

The photo shows 85-year-old Rosa Luiza Lunardi being hugged by nurse. Rosa was hugged by someone five months later.

No one was able to see Rosa because outsiders were barred from visiting all the care centers in Brazil because of Corona. This time the award was announced virtually.

Photo Online Video of the Year won by Yang Sen and Tang Chiaolan’s ‘Calling Back from Wuhan’.

In Wuhan, the epicenter of the global epidemic of the Corona virus, a man is seen advising people to be quarantined.

Argentine photojournalist Pablo Tosco’s photo won the first prize.

The photo shows the diary of a woman from the long-conflict-ridden country of Yemen. The award was won by a photo of a Yemeni woman, Fatima, and her son preparing a fishing net in a boat. Freelancing in France, Jeremy Lampin’s “Doctor Peyo and Mr. Hassen” won the second prize in this category. In the photo, Marion, a 24-year-old woman with metastatic cancer, hugs her 7-year-old son, Ethan, and is helped by a horse named Peyo for therapy.

Photo of Armenian photographer, who won the third prize in the contemporary genre. It shows an Armenian soldier resting in a bunker during the war with Azerbaijan. In California, the Sea Lion eagerly moves towards the mask. This photo taken by Ralph Paez has won the first prize for the environment. A monastery in one half of a mountain in the state of Kachin, Myanmar, is being excavated with a stone excavator. This photo of Hkun Lat has won the second prize for environment.

A village woman in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh collects rainwater by sifting through a cloth The photo taken by K M Asad ( Khandaker Muhammad Asad ) has won the third prize for environment. This year’s Photo Story Award went to Italian photojournalist Antonio Faccilongo. Antonio’s photo story titled ‘Habibie’ won this year’s best Photo story award.

In the photo story, Antonio depicts the effects of the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He described the suffering of Palestinian families as a result of the Israeli-Palestinian war.

This time, Nayantara Gurung Kakshapati of Nepal was the jury for the photo contest and Mui Chiao was the jury chair for the digital storytelling.