Gallery Photographer Nina Berman Named 2025 World Press Photo Contest North and Central America Jury Chair

 Via World Press Photo

November 25, 2024

In each of the six regions of our contest model, a selection of entries per category will first be made by a regional jury, chaired by the regional jury chair.

The juries are made up of professionals from and/or working in the region they are judging, who are well-equipped to place the stories into a cultural, political and social context.

Once the regional juries have made their selection of entries, the global jury, composed of the six regional jury chairs and one additional member, the global jury chair, decides on the 2025 World Press Photo Contest winners. From those, they will then choose the World Press Photo of the Year and the two runners-up. 

The global jury is assisted by a secretary. The secretary is responsible for all procedural matters and ensures the rules and procedures are fairly and properly applied. The secretary does not contribute to debate on the merits of any entry, and has no vote in the balloting.

Nina Berman is an American documentary photographer, filmmaker, author and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

World Press Photo Involvement:
2025 World Press Photo Contest jury member
2011 World Press Photo Contest jury member
2005 World Press Photo Contest winner
2007 World Press Photo Contest winner

Nina Berman on Social Media:
Instagram: @nina_berman

Nina Berman fine art prints at Monroe Gallery of Photography

The 2012 World Press Photo of the Year

Samuel Aranda—The New York Times via Reuters

A woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011.

Today the winners of the prestigious 55th annual World Press Photo competition were announced in Amsterdam naming Samuel Aranda from Spain as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011.


"They called me yesterday around 7pm, and told me that I had won the World Press Photo," Samuel Aranda tells BJP in his first interview of the day. "At that exact moment, I was checking my bank account because I didn't know how I was going to pay my rent this month. I was crunching numbers to make it work."

 World Press Photo: "It was about the people," says jury chair Aidan Sullivan



Jury chair Aidan Sullivan speaks about the winning image by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda

World Press Photo: Does the winning image reference Michelangelo's Pietà?


Analysis: Yet, in spite of the strong islamist connotations of the full veil, I cannot help but be reminded of the Christian iconography of the Pieta in which the Virgin Mary holds the body of Jesus after his death


View the entire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest



By the numbers: 5, 247 Photographers, 124 Nationalities, 101, 254 pictures. Three hundred and fifty images by 57 photographers of 24 nationalities were awarded prizes in nine categories


World Press Photo: What was missing for this year's entries?  (For one, Occupy was not represented in this year's entries)



"My photo history class (at art history department) is going to hear all about the (ab)use of the pieta in their next class." "OK, I'm just going to say it: It might be time for an alternative to World Press Photo. Bc you know, I mean, come on!" http://twitter.com/jmcolberg

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