grand press photo 2025
category: SINGLE – CLIMATE, RESPONSIBILITY
1st place
Tomasz Tomaszewski, Visum Foto GmbH
In Kolkata, local manufacturers of the cheap version of jeans sew, dye, wash and iron the pants for sale in local bazaars. Hundreds of thousands of liters of used chemicals go directly into the sewage system.
2nd place
Natalia Łątka, freelancerka, member of the Polish Women Photographers photography collective
A garbage dump on the outskirts of the city of Khulna, Bangladesh. Leftover food and a small income for found objects are the only source of income for the prospectors.
3rd place
Filip Błażejowski, Forum Polish Photo Agency
A dead deer lying under the surface of a lake into which it jumped, seeking rescue from a pack of wolves hunting it.
category: STORIES – CLIMATE, RESPONSIBILITY
1st place
Tomasz Grzyb, Forum Polish Photo Agency
The reportage “Lesser Brothers” shows the contradictory relationship between people and animals in Kolkata. The photographs document the daily coexistence in which animals serve as companions, labor force or commodities, often experiencing suffering and indifference.
2nd place
Tomasz Zgadzaj, Social Documentary Network
The reportage shows the highway as a dehumanized space subjugated to the rush of modernity – cut off from nature and people, in which everything living and unadapted becomes temporary and superfluous.
Grand Press Photo
– National Competition of Reporters’ Photography
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Grand Press Photo is Poland’s most important competition for professional reporters, including press and documentary photography, working in press, online editorial offices, photo agencies and freelancers.
The contestants’ works are judged by world-renowned professionals.
The chairman of the jury is a World Press Photo winner every year, and the jury members are recognized photojournalists and photo editors from Poland and abroad.
