World Press Photo Contest merupakan agenda kegiatan tahunan dari organisasi World Press Photo, yang menghimpun foto-foto para jurnalis foto di seluruh dunia. Kontes ini terbuka umum untuk semua para juranalis foto profesional. Tidak terbatas hanya untuk fotografer, tapi juga terbuka bagi foto agensi, koran dan majalah di sleuruh penjuru dunia yang memenuhi kriteria. Kontes ini secara dibuka sejak bulan Oktober 2007 dan berakhir pada Februari 2008 ini dan telah diumumkan hasilnya pada Jumat (8/2) kemarin.

Berikut pemenang pertama World Press Photo Contest 2008 berdasar kategori:

Spot News
1st prize singles
John Moore, USA, Getty Images
Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 27 December

General News
1st prize singles
Balazs Gardi, Hungary, VII Network
Afghan man holds a wounded boy, Korengal Valley, October

People in the News
1st prize singles
Yonathan Weitzman, Israel
Dress of an African girl caught in the Israel/Egypt border fence, 20 August

Sports Action
1st prize singles
Ivaylo Velev, Bulgaria, Bul X Vision Photography Agency
Freeride competitor Philippe Meier chased by an avalanche, Flaine, France, 15 March

Sports Features
1st prize singles
Andrew Quilty, Australia, Oculi for Australian Financial Review Magazine
Children watch horses compete at Maxwelton country races, Australia

Contemporary Issues
1st prize singles
Brent Stirton, South Africa, Reportage by Getty Images for Newsweek
Evacuation of dead of Mountain Gorillas, Virunga National Park, Eastern Congo

Daily Life
1st prize singles
Justin Maxon, USA, Aurora Photos
Mui, a homeless woman with HIV and her son bathe in the Red River, Hanoi, Vietnam

Portraits
1st prize singles
Platon, UK, for Time magazine
President Putin of Russia

Arts and Entertainment
1st prize singles
Ariana Lindquist, USA
Girl in an anime character costume, Shanghai, China

Nature
1st prize singles
Fang Qianhua, China, Nangfang Dushi Daily/Southern Metropolis Daily
An endangered plant at Wanzhou city sanctuary garden, China