Ảnh Báo chí của Năm (Press Photos of the Year) được coi là giải ảnh báo chí danh giá nhất hiện nay, do do Hội Tương tế Ảnh Báo chí Thế Giới (World Press Photo Foundation) trao tặng hàng năm cho tấm ảnh xuất sắc nhất của Giải thưởng Ảnh Báo chí Thế giới.
| Year | Photographer | Subject | Description | Web link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 |  Mogens von Haven |
Auto racing | On 28 August 1955, at Volk Mølle Racetrack in Randers, Denmark, a motorcyclist crashes during a competition. | Image |
| 1956 |  Helmuth Pirath |
Coming home from the war | German World War II prisoner released by the Soviet Union is reunited with his daughter, who has not seen him since infancy. | Image |
| 1957 |  Douglas Martin |
Racial segregation in the United States | Accompanied by violence, Dorothy Counts becomes one of the first African American students at Harry Harding High School, where racial segregation is no longer practiced. | Image |
| 1958 | .svg){kind=small} Stanislav Tereba |
Football | During a football game between the teams Sparta Praha and Červená Hvězda Bratislava, Sparta’s goalkeeper Miroslav Čtvrtníček stands on the football field in pouring rain. | Image |
| 1959 | No award given. | |||
| 1960 | .svg){kind=small} Yasushi Nagao |
Assassination | On 12 October 1960, the 17-year-old extreme right-wing student Otoya Yamaguchi kills the socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma with a sword during a speech in Tokyo’s Hibiya Hall. | Image |
| 1961 | No award given. | |||
| 1962 | Tiêu bản:Country data VEN Héctor Rondón Lovera | Uprising in Venezuela | During an uprising by the Venezuelan guerrilla organisation Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, a dying soldier clings to a priest with sniper fire all around them. | Image |
| 1963 | Malcolm Browne |
Suppression of Buddhists in Vietnam | The Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem. | Image |
| 1964 |  Donald McCullin |
Cyprus Conflict | A Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, victim of the Greek-Turkish civil war. | Image |
| 1965 | Kyoichi Sawada |
Vietnam War | A mother and her children wade through a river in Loc Thuong in the South Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh to escape US bombing. | Image |
| 1966 | Kyoichi Sawada |
Vietnam War | On 24 February 1966, American troops drag the body of a Viet Cong soldier behind their M113 Armored Personnel Carrier for burial. | Image |
| 1967 | Tiêu bản:Country data NLD Co Rentmeester | Vietnam War | The commander of an M48 Patton looks through his lens. This was the first colour photograph to win the award. | Image |
| 1968 | Eddie Adams |
Vietnam War | On 1 February 1968, the South Vietnamese police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan summarily executes Viet Cong prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém on a street in Saigon with a bullet to the head. | Image |
| 1969 | Hanns-Jörg Anders |
The Troubles | An Irish Catholic wearing a gas mask stands in front of a wall with the graffiti we want peace, moments before teargas is thrown by British troops. | Image |
| 1970 | No award given. | |||
| 1971 | Wolfgang Peter Geller |
Bank robbery in Saarbrücken | After a bank robbery in Saarbrücken, a shootout takes place between police and the bank robbers. | Image |
| 1972 | Tiêu bản:Country data VNM Nick Út | Vietnam War | The young Phan Thị Kim Phúc and other children flee with severe burns caused by napalm, dropped accidentally by South Vietnamese planes. | Image |
| 1973 | Tiêu bản:Country data CHL Orlando Lagos | Coup in Chile | On 11 September 1973, president Salvador Allende appears shortly before his death in the presidential palace La Moneda during General Pinochet’s military coup. Lagos's identity as the photographer was not revealed until February 2007, a month after his death. | Image |
| 1974 | Ovie Carter |
Sahel famine, Niger | A small child suffers during a drought in Niger. | Image |
| 1975 | Stanley Forman |
Blaze | During a fire in a Boston apartment building, the fire escape collapses and a woman falls down with her daughter. The woman died at the scene of impact. | Image |
| 1976 |  Françoise Demulder |
Lebanese Civil War | In January 1976, a group of Palestinian refugees flees civil war in Beirut. | Image |
| 1977 |  Leslie Hammond |
Apartheid | The South African police tear-gas a group of demonstrators in Modderdam, near Cape Town. | Image |
| 1978 | Sadayuki Mikami |
Narita International Airport | After years of protests by the public against the construction of Tokyo Narita Airport, it is ready to open when on 26 March 1978 serious clashes break out between demonstrators and the police. | Image |
| 1979 | David Burnett |
Fall of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia | In November 1979, in a refugee camp in Sa Keo near the Thai-Cambodian border, a woman holds her child in her arms. | Image |
| 1980 | Mike Wells |
Famine in Karamoja, Uganda | In April 1980, a white missionary in northeastern Uganda holds the hand of a starving African boy. | Image |
| 1981 |  Manuel Pérez Barriopedro |
23-F coup attempt in Madrid | On 23 February 1981 Lieutenant Antonio Tejero speaks with a gun in his hand before the Spanish Congress of Deputies, holding hostage the government and MPs. | Image |
| 1982 | Robin Moyer |
1982 Lebanon War | On 18 September 1982, Palestinian corpses lie in the street in the aftermath of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, when Phalangist Maronite Christian militias killed Palestinian refugees. | Image |
| 1983 |  Mustafa Bozdemir |
Earthquake in Turkey | On 30 October 1983, following a devastating earthquake in the vicinity of Erzurum and Kars, Kezban Özer finds her five children buried alive. | Image |
| 1984 |  Pablo Bartholomew |
Bhopal disaster | The body of a child, killed in a chemical accident at the plant of US chemical company Union Carbide Corporation, is buried. | Image |
| 1985 | Frank Fournier |
Omayra Sánchez | Sánchez, a victim of the Armero volcanic disaster, died after being trapped in a mud hole for 60 hours. | Image |
| 1986 | / Alon Reininger |
AIDS | American AIDS patient Ken Meeks sits in a wheelchair. On his arms are numerous lesions caused by Kaposi's sarcoma. | Image |
| 1987 | Anthony Suau |
Election in South Korea | On 18 December 1987, a desperate mother in Kuro, South Korea leans against a riot policeman’s shield and begs for mercy for her son, arrested during a demonstration. After the November election there were protests against the government, accused of electoral fraud. | Image |
| 1988 | David Turnley |
Earthquake in Armenia | In Leninakan, Boris Abgarzian grieves for his 17-year-old son, a victim of the Armenian earthquake. | Image |
| 1989 | Charlie Cole |
Tiananmen Square Massacre | A protester, later dubbed Tank Man, stops a group of battle tanks during the massacre in Tiananmen, Beijing. | Image |
| 1990 | Georges Merillon |
Kosovo conflict | The family of Nashim Elshani grieves around his deathbed; he was killed while protesting for Kosovar autonomy. | Image |
| 1991 | David Turnley |
Gulf War | US Sergeant Ken Kozakiewicz mourns the death of fellow soldier Andy Alaniz, killed by friendly fire. | Image |
| 1992 | James Nachtwey |
Famine in Somalia | A Somali mother lifts up the body of her child, killed by malnutrition. | Image |
| 1993 |  Larry Towell |
Palestinian territories | Palestinian children raise their toy guns in the air. | Image |
| 1994 | James Nachtwey |
Rwandan Genocide | Hutu man mutilated by the Hutu Interahamwe militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. | Image |
| 1995 | Lucian Perkins |
First Chechen War | A boy peers out of a refugee-packed bus fleeing fighting near Shali, Chechen Republic, Russia and heading for Grozny. | Image |
| 1996 |  Francesco Zizola |
Angolan Civil War | Land mine victims play in the Angolan city of Kuito. | Image |
| 1997 | .svg){kind=small} Hocine |
Mourning for victims of a massacre | A woman mourns the victims of a massacre in Bentalha, Algeria. | Image |
| 1998 | Dayna Smith |
Kosovo conflict | Relatives and friends comfort the widow of a KLA fighter, shot dead while on patrol the previous day. | Image |
| 1999 | Claus Bjørn Larsen |
Kosovo War | A wounded Kosovar Albanian refugee walks the streets of Kukës, Albania. | Image |
| 2000 | Lara Jo Regan |
Immigration to the United States | A Mexican immigrant works in order to feed her children. | Image |
| 2001 | Erik Refner |
Refugee disaster in Afghanistan | In the Jalozai refugee camp, the body of an Afghan boy is prepared for burial. | Image |
| 2002 |  / Eric Grigorian |
Earthquake in Iran | A boy holds the trousers of his dead father, killed in the 23 June 2002 earthquake. | Image |
| 2003 | Jean-Marc Bouju |
Iraq War | An Iraqi prisoner of war with a mask on his head comforts his son at a holding centre. | Image |
| 2004 | Arko Datta |
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake | Two days after the tsunami, a desperate Indian woman mourns a relative killed in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. | Image |
| 2005 | Finbarr O'Reilly |
2005 Niger food crisis | A mother and her child wait for food in an emergency center in Tahoua, Niger. | Image |
| 2006 | Spencer Platt |
2006 Lebanon War | Five young Lebanese ride in a convertible through the rubble of a bombed South Beirut. | Image |
| 2007 | Tim Hetheringtons |
2007 Afghanistan War | An exhausted American soldier leans against a wall and keeps his eyes covered. | Image |
