AFP Honoured at the 2025 World Press Photo Awards
The famous photojournalism competition has announced the regional winners of its 2025 edition. AFP has been recognised in the Stories category for North and Central America as well as for Africa, and in the Singles category for the Asia-Pacific & Oceania region and South America.
Based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, photojournalist Clarens Siffroy has been awarded for a series of images captured in 2024. His work focuses primarily on covering social and political events in the country.
He has been working as a photographer for AFP since March 2024, documenting the country’s endemic violence and political instability – in one of the world’s poorest nations.
Previously, he collaborated with news agency EFE, SIPA Press and the Swiss daily Le Nouvelliste. Clarens Siffroy is a graduate of the VII Academy in Arles and was selected to participate in the Eddie Adams Workshop in October 2024 in New York. Since March 2024, he has also been a member of the Diversify Photo collective.
Jérôme Brouillet has been honoured in the Singles category for Asia-Pacific & Oceania for his now-iconic photograph taken during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at the surfing competition in Tahiti. The image shows Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina seemingly levitating above the waves at Teahupo’o – one of the world’s most powerful surf breaks.
Originally from Marseille, Jérôme Brouillet has been based in Tahiti since 2015, where he discovered a new world of creativity and sports to photograph.
He began working with AFP in 2021, initially covering local events during the Covid pandemic. In 2022, he photographed his first surfing competition for the Agency. During the 2024 Olympic Games, Jérôme was aboard a boat off Teahupo’o, Tahiti, where he captured his now-celebrated image of Gabriel Medina – already the recipient of several awards this year.
Luis Tato has been recognised in the Story category for the Africa region. His series, Kenya’s Youth Uprising, depicts demonstrators during a nationwide strike in protest against tax hikes in Nairobi. In 2024, a protest movement led by “Generation Z” erupted in response to a proposed tax increase, triggering the country’s worst crisis since President William Ruto took office in 2022.
Based in Kenya, Luis Tato covers East Africa for AFP. He began his career as a freelancer, reporting on Spain’s financial crisis for print media, news agencies and NGOs. He joined AFP full-time in September 2023. He has already received several accolades, including Picture of the Year International and a previous World Press Photo award. His work has appeared in leading publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic and Le Monde.
Anselmo Cunha has been awarded in the Singles category for South America for his photograph Aircraft on Flooded Tarmac. A Boeing 727-200 is seen stranded at Salgado Filho International Airport in Brazil, surrounded by floodwaters. Between April and June 2024, record rainfall struck the state of Rio Grande do Sul, causing the worst flooding in the region’s history.
Anselmo Cunha graduated with a degree in journalism in 2014 and has since worked for various local media outlets in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he resides. He currently works as an independent multimedia photojournalist and collaborates with AFP.
The jury will announce the winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2025 on 17 April 2025, selected from among the 42 regional winners.