Fields aflame and a ruined school: the Ian Parry photojournalism grant 2024 – in pictures

A look at the work of the recipients of the 2024 Ian Parry photojournalism grant (IPPG), which supports young and emerging photographers. This year’s winner is Iva Sidash, from Ukraine. Ximena Borrazas received the Tom Stoddart award for excellence and the Gentex Corp personal safety award dedicated to ensuring the protection of aspiring photojournalists. The IPPG’s partner, Save the Children, selected Shefali Rafiq from the shortlist of 10 finalists for a special commission

IPPG winner | Iva Sidash

Uliana with her mother, Aliona, in Slatyne, Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine

Photograph: Iva Sidash/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Matviy, 15, and Uliyana, 13, Aliona’s children, eat dinner in a yard in Slatyne, Kharkiv region

Photograph: Iva Sidash/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Uliyana crouches in the playground of the school where she studied before the full-scale war, in Slatyne, Kharkiv region

Photograph: Iva Sidash/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Tom Stoddart award for excellence and Gentex Corp personal safety award | Ximena Borrazas

Seven Teklehaymano, 45, poses in front of the camera in a centre for internally displaced people, where she lives with her two-year-old son in Abiy Addi City.The grant recipient will receive cutting-edge personal safety equipment as well as comprehensive hostile environment training through an intensive four-day course in the UK

Photograph: Ximena Borrazas/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Gidayn Gebreslaise, 25, and her two children Hiya Lijale and Dagmawi live in a centre for internally displaced people. The two-year civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which began in November 2020, led to the displacement of more than 2 million people, including thousands who fled to Sudan. During her pregnancy with her second child, Gebreslaise was imprisoned because she was born in Tigray. The family survive by begging. Owing to the lack of food, Gebreslaise is no longer able to produce milk from her right breast

Photograph: Ximena Borrazas/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Roman Deslagen, 55, Tsegabrhane Mulaw, 32, Berihu Mulaw, 24, and one-year-old Brkitteka fled their home during the Tigray war. When they returned after a peace pact was signed, they found their home and crops had been destroyed and their animals stolen

Photograph: Ximena Borrazas/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

One of the centres for internally displaced people in the city of Aksum, northern Ethiopia, houses a large number of orphans under the age of 13. Pictured here with Shewit Gebrewahd, 25, who takes care of them, is Merhawit Nuguse, 12, Haymaot Gebrewhad, 13, Liyunesh Khsay, 12, Natnael Atalay, 12, Robel Getachew, nine, and Adyam, five. Some of the children’s parents died during the war; others are in Sudan but, owing to the armed conflict, the children do not know if they are still alive. Every day the orphans go out alone to beg in the city as a means to survive

Photograph: Ximena Borrazas/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Highly Commended | Annie Barker, USA

Zayley Singer, nine, Langston Singer, eight months, Kaizley Singer, three, and Brenick Singer, five, play as their family work at Pythian Grove cemetery in Kentucky. They have relatives buried here

Photograph: Annie Barker/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Elizabeth Aud, 79, pictured with her dog Marley, sells tickets and stamps to seven-year-old Briar Darnell at the Harrison county fair in Kentucky. Aud has worked there for more than 15 years

Photograph: Annie Barker/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Makenna Fuson, 10, plays as Daniel Fuson, 35, finishes brewing a batch of beer before cleaning up at Maiden City Brewing Company in Kentucky. Fuson’s wife is a second-shift nurse, so he often watches over his three daughters while he works at the brewery. However, during the school year he is a middle-school teacher

Photograph: Annie Barker/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Commended | Ammar Abubaker, Sudan

The items I frequently use include: my rosary, with which I praise Allah, and a key to the lock on my backpack. There is also a charger with a USB and a power bank. Plus my ring, which I’ve worn since June 2021; and my phone, which is not only a communication device but also provides entertainment, education, a camera – it is a tool for making a living. If I had not sold the photos I took with that phone I would not have got out from Al Renk in South Sudan. These items are placed on the torn plastic bag on which I slept for 23 days. Now it is my prayer carpet

Photograph: Ammar Yassir Abubaker/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Commended | George Ivanchenko, Ukraine

Wheat fields ablaze after shelling in Nova Poltavka village, Ukraine. Enver, 46, who lives locally, attempts to extinguish the flames

Photograph: George Ivanchenko/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant

Save The Children commission | Shefali Rafiq

Naseema, a 35-year-old Gujjar woman, washes an old blue scarf that she uses instead of sanitary pads at her home in Faqir Gujri, central Kashmir. The charity Save the Children said: ‘We were moved by [the photographer’s] commitment to covering female perspectives of conflict and mental health, as well as her dedication for shining a light on marginalised communities and the issues they face’

Photograph: Shefali Rafiq/c/o Ian Parry Photography Grant