Awards

30/09/2013 - 17:54

Indonesian reporter Pramono receives AFP’S 2013 Kate Webb Prize in Jakarta

Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency presented the Kate Webb Prize, awarded for courageous frontline reporting, to investigative journalist Stefanus Teguh Edi Pramono at a  ceremony in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Monday evening, September 30.  

02/07/2013 - 13:18

AFP Photographer Adrian Dennis wins 2013 Press Photographer’s Year Prize

AFP photographer Adrian Dennis has won photograph of the year at the press photographer’s 2013 competition for his striking image of Thai rider Nina Lamsan Ligon and her horse at the London Olympics. He also won the Sports Folio of the Year and Olympic Folio categories in the competition that rewards the best photographs in the British media.

12/06/2013 - 12:43

AFP photographers dominate awards at international Sportfolio festival

AFP photographers scooped two gold medals, one silver and two bronze as the agency’s photographers dominated the annual Sportsfolio photo festival in Narbonne, France.

25/04/2013 - 12:44

AFP receives the CAPA Gold Medal and four Awards from the North American Press Photographer’s Association

The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award goes to Fabio Bucciarelli and the "National Press Photographers Association" (NPPA) honors four AFP photographer-reporters in its annual "the Best of photojournalism" competition.

17/04/2013 - 18:39

AFP photographer honoured at the Human Rights Press Awards

AFP Dhaka photographer Munir uz Zaman has been honoured at an Asian media awards ceremony for a "heart-wrenching" series of images of penniless Rohingya refugees striving in vain to flee communal bloodshed in Myanmar.

16/04/2013 - 14:28

Javier Manzano, a freelance photographer for AFP, wins the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography

Javier Manzano, a freelance photographer working for Agence France-Presse, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on Monday April 15 for a photograph of two Syrian rebels guarding their position in the embattled city of Aleppo. It is the second year in a row that a photographer working for AFP has been awarded the most prestigious US journalism prize after Massoud Hossaini of Afghanistan won in the Breaking News category in 2012

02/04/2013 - 18:50

Three AFP photojournalists receive awards at the China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP)

The China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP) 2013 rewarded three AFP photographers.

26/03/2013 - 17:43

AFP – United Kingdom : Sports journalists’ association names Adrian Dennis photographer of the year

Adrian Dennis receives coveted Award as 2012 photographer of the year from the British sports journalists' profession.

15/02/2013 - 17:47

Two photographers win World Press Photo Awards for AFP

Fabio BUCCIARELLI and Javier MANZANO respectively take 2nd and 3rd place for the “Spot News Stories” category  

08/02/2013 - 17:40

Two AFP photographers highly commended at the UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards

ADRIAN DENNIS Highly Commended in the Getty Image Royal UNITED KINGDOM, London : Thailand's Nina Lamsan Ligon riding Butts Leon rides past spectators as she competes in the Cross Country phase of the Eventing competition of the 2012 London Olympics at the Equestrian venue in Greenwich Park, London, July 30, 2012. AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS   CARL COURT Highly Commended in the Getty Image Royal