The first Silver Camera was awarded in 1949 by the Dutch Association of Photojournalists (NVF) and aimed to improve the quality of the work of its own members through the competition. In 1955, World Press Photo emerged from the Zilveren Camera as an international variant of this award. The Zilveren Camera has since become the most prestigious award for photojournalists in the Netherlands, and the photos of past winners are etched on everyone's retinas: who doesn't remember the shocking photo of Pim Fortuyn, who had just been shot, or the penetrating shot from 1992 of athlete Ellen van Langen crossing the finish line almost in a trance and winning Olympic gold?

Eddy van Wessel wins Silver Camera for fourth time. Van Wessel receives the award for his black-and-white series Ruins for Freedom, about the war in Ukraine. The jury voted unanimously for Van Wessel. 'Each photograph strikes a nail in your soul and upon seeing the next image it goes deeper and deeper.'

Marieke van der Velden and Philip Brink won the Prize for Storytelling with their series 'Children of the Labyrinth'. In it, refugees write a letter to their children so that later they will understand why they had to leave their homeland. Above all, the jury praised the drive of Van der Velden and Brink, who seize every means and opportunity to unpretentiously and tirelessly tell the stories we would rather not see. The result is a project that leaves no viewer unmoved. The human mixes with the inhuman. The aesthetic makes the work appealing and thus increases its accessibility.

The Paul Peters Photo Prize was won by Zahra Reijs with the series 'Dear Future'. According to the jury, the images of young people from Generation Z are 'surprising, provocative and confrontational'. 'At a time when identity and naming it sometimes leads to pigeonholing and fragmentation, they are ten steps ahead and actually stretch the concept of identity.'