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Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

Winner of Istanbul Photo Awards is a painful reminder of photojournalism’s role in documenting humanity’s darker moments

A woman dressed in a Burka holds an emaciated child in her arms.

Photography plays a crucial role in capturing both the happier, nostalgic moments in human history as well as the darker, destructive ones, and the announcement of the Istanbul Photo Awards 2026 is a stark reminder of this.

Entitled ‘Gaza, No Hope’, the overall Photo of the Year, as well as Single News category winning image, taken by Palestinian photographer Haitham Imad, depicts an emaciated two-year-old child, Sham Qudeih, lying exhausted in her mother’s arms at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.

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