Founded in 2011, Pictures of the Year Latin America, or POY Latam , is a biennial documentary and artistic photography contest in Ibero-America. It was created with the support of the Missouri School of Journalism Pictures of the Year International (POY), a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.

This year, Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd was named the POY Latam 2025 Photojournalist of the Year. Abd has spent years documenting social struggles and upheavals across Latin America.

Abd’s winning portfolio brings together striking individual images, capturing the complexities of life in Latin America and in-depth essays that delve deeper into Paraguay’s overcrowded prisons, the destruction of sacred caves in Mexico’s Yucatán by the Maya Train project, and a widen

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