7:38 PM @samarabuelouf I am honored and delighted to receive the AP Photojournalism Award 🙏🙏. @ap_magazine
I am grateful for the recognition of my work as an freelancer Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza ❤️.
It fills me with joy whenever Gaza is represented through my lens, as I see and love it 🫶.
I am deeply thankful to the photo editors at The New York Times @nytimes for accepting the award on my behalf in London.
@adamjdean @boshnaqmona @gaiatripoli
يشرفني ويسعدني الحصول على جائزة AP Photojournalism 🙏🙏 Award
يسعدني الاعتراف بعملي كمصورة صحفية فلسطينية مستقلة من مدينة غزة ❤️
يسعدني كل ميدان تُذكر فيه غزة من خلال الصور بعيني كما أراها وأحبها 🫶
ممتنة جدا لمحرري الصور في صحيفة نيويورك The New York Times تايمز لاستلام الجائزة بالنيابة عني في لندن
Adam dean Mona Boshnaq
وهذا بيان الفوز بالجائزة 🙏
Photojournalists are the bravest of us, putting their lives on the line (and often losing them) in order to record the truth that many in power do not want us to see. Last year 124 journalists and photojournalists from 18 countries lost their lives doing their job – 70% of them in Gaza.
Our Photojournalism Award than the Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf.
At the age of 26 and with three children she began taking documentary pictures on her phone. Her family and friends were not supportive, but she carried on anyway.
She bought a camera, taught herself how to use it, and undertook her first of many assignments covering the conflicts in Gaza. Lacking protective gear, but wanting to identify herself as media, not a protestor, she strapped a cooking pot to her head for a helmet and taped PRESS on to a blue plastic bag which she wore around her torso.
Having freelanced for The New York Times since 2021, she has won many critical plaudits for her work, her courage and her tenacity, and now she can add a well-deserved AP Photojournalism Award. 
