Aref Karimi named “Journalist of the year” by the Afghanistan Journalists Centre

Our Kabul VJ, Aref Karimi, has been named “Journalist of the year” by the Afghanistan Journalists Centre, an association of journalists from across the country.

Our Kabul VJ, Aref Karimi, has been named “Journalist of the year” by the Afghanistan Journalists Centre, an association of journalists from across the country.

AFP photographer Brendan Smialowski wins 10 prizes at the WHNPA

Brendan Smialowski won “Photographer of the Year” and “Political Photo of the Year” in the Top Honors category. He won the political photo prize for this image of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before a meeting in Geneva on 16 June 2021.

AFP wins 4 prizes at the 2021 POYi Awards

Kirill Kudryavtsev, an AFP photographer based in Moscow, won an Excellence Award in the “Space on Earth” category for his photo of a women walking under snowfall in front of a Soyuz rocket installed as a monument in Baikonur city, near the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome on December 05, 2021.

Yasuyoshi Chiba, crowned "Agency Photographer of the Year 2021" by The Guardian picture desk

Starting with the elections in Uganda, moving to the Kimana Sanctuary in Kenya, stepping into the Tigray region of Ethiopia, crossing continents to cover both Olympics and Paralympics in his home country, Japan, before returning to Kenya; Yasuyoshi Chiba recalls a year full of rich experiences and stories in a context of uncertainty, as he tells The Guardian:

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