/ 2026 / /

• Prize
  Curator Selection
• Photographer
  Chris Mozyro, United Kingdom
• Date of Photograph
  2025
• Category
  Europe

Police carry a detained protester through a dense crowd at a pro-Palestinian rally in Trafalgar Square, London. The protest against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action led to mass arrests. Captured from within the crowd, the image highlights the intense, claustrophobic friction between state authority and civil dissent. Amidst the chaos, the composition freezes a stark contrast: the rigid focus of Metropolitan Police officers against the raw, vulnerable exhaustion of the individual being carried away.