World Press Photo 2024 – global winners

 Via The Guardian

April 18, 2024

‘These final selected works are a tapestry of our world today, centred on images we believe were made with respect and integrity, that can speak universally and resonate far beyond their origins,’ said Fiona Shields, global jury chair and head of photography at the Guardian. ‘This is an opportunity to applaud the work of press and documentary photographers everywhere and to amplify the importance of the stories they are telling, often in unimaginable circumstances’ --click to go to feature article

Resilience - stories of women inspiring change: Alexandria, Egypt

 Via World Press Photo Foundation

February 6, 2024

Anna Boyiazis: Swim instructor Chema, 17, snaps her fingers as she disappears underwater in Nungwi, Zanzibar, 2016

Resilience - stories of women inspiring change: Alexandria, Egypt featuring Gallery photographer Anna Boyiazis

01 February 2024 to  21 February 2024

The World Press Photo Foundation, the Kingdom of the Netherlands present a selection of stories, awarded in the annual World Press Photo Contest from 2000 to 2021, that highlight the resilience and challenges of women, girls and communities around the world.

Gender equality and justice is a fundamental human right critical in supporting cohesive societies. Yet women around the world face deeply entrenched inequality and remain underrepresented in political and economic roles. Worldwide in 2021, women represented just 26.1% of some 35,500 parliament seats, only 22.6% of over 3,400 ministers, and 27% of all managerial positions. Violence against women prevails as a serious global health and protection issue. An estimated one in three women will experience physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime.


This joint exhibition conveys the commitment of the Netherlands to women’s rights and gender equality and justice. Multiple voices, documented by 17 photographers of 13 different nationalities, offer insights into issues including sexism, gender-based violence, reproductive rights, and access to equal opportunities. The selection of stories explores how women and gender issues have evolved in the 21st century and how photojournalism has developed in the ways of portraying them.


See a selection of the stories and photographs on display.




Event information
Location
IFE (Institut français d'Egypte à Alexandrie)
30 Nabi Daniel street, Al Attarin Sharq,
Al Attarin, Alexandria


Visiting hours
Monday to Thursday : 9.00 - 21.00
Friday and Saturday: 10.00 - 20.00
Sunday : 9.00 - 21.00


Tickets
Free

Resilience: Stories of Women Inspiring Change Photo Exhibition & 16 Days of Activism at UWI

 Via Express Vibes

November 24, 2023

Title: Finding Freedom in the Water

© Anna Boyiazis

Kijini Primary School students learn to float, swim and perform rescues on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 in the Indian Ocean off of Mnyuni, Zanzibar.

The captivating ‘Resilience – Stories of Women Inspiring Change’ exhibition, presented by The World Press Photo Foundation and the Kingdom of the Netherlands is currently on display at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus.

Echoing a global call for gender equality and justice, the exhibition unveils the successes and struggles of women, girls, and communities worldwide. Amidst persistent inequalities and the widespread prevalence of violence against women, these narratives captured by 17 photographers from 13 nations shed light on sexism, gender-based violence, reproductive rights, and the pursuit of equal opportunities. Each curated story signifies the evolving landscape of gender issues in the 21st century, underlining the deep impact of photojournalism.

Lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The UWI, Dr. Sue Ann Barratt shared her thoughts on the significance of the exhibition, “Images carry multiple complex messages in a moment. It catches our eyes, minds, and hearts as we pass by. These images of RESILIENCE tell multiple stories about women’s lived experiences. And goes beyond the limit of time, space and place. These images, curated by the World Press Association and brought to us through the collaborative efforts of the IGDS, The Alma Jordan Library and our external partner, The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, bring to our attention how women live their lives as resilient, moving resilience from the realm of the abstract to the real of the real in context.”

Aligned with the festival, the ‘Resilience’ exhibition stands as an essential part of the 16 Days of Activism, intertwining with IGDS’ IGNITE ChalkBack UWI event. This event marks the culmination of the semester’s Cat Calls of UWI Project, illuminating street harassment and gender-based violence. Further, a panel discussion – Narratives of Resilience: Women Speak their Truth will also be hosted on Friday 24 November.

To register please visit https://uwi.zoom.us/…/tJIqceGoqT8iHdbTAQHoT8nLhKGY68Z-G9VM

Amidst these events, the Alma Jordan Library will proudly exhibit 36 posters and 5 stories highlighting resilient women across diverse industries throughout the Research Festival.

This collective effort signifies a steadfast commitment to global gender equality, justice, and human rights, in solidarity with the 16 Days of Activism from November 20 to December 10, culminating on Human Rights Day.

Anna Boyiazis' "Finding Freedom In The Water" For World Photography Day

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Via World Press Photo on Instagram

August 18, 2023

In honor of World Photography Day on 19 August, we asked our executive director to share an image from our archive that she finds impactful. Joumana selected this image by Anna Boyiazis (@annaboyiazis), from the project ‘Finding Freedom in the Water,’ awarded in the 2018 Contest.⁣

There is a mesmerizing quality to this image that is both relaxing and daunting. Relaxing in the peace that you feel when you look at the girl’s faces floating in the water and daunting in its unfortunate reference to migrants dying at sea. However when you understand that the girls are students learning how to swim and perform rescues in Zanzibar, then you start to read the image in a new light. And, when you know that one of the highest causes of mortality in Zanzibar is drowning, especially for girls who have been discouraged from learning to swim because of the absence of modest swimwear, then you understand the image differently.

What I am moved by here is not only the extraordinary beauty of the photograph itself, but also the symbol that lies in these girls taking the power in their hands and learning how to swim, in order to challenge and change their reality and our misconception.” - Joumana El Zein Koury, World Press Photo executive director

Pictured here, students from the Kijini Primary School learn to swim and perform rescues in the Indian Ocean, off Muyuni Beach, Zanzibar. Traditionally, girls in the Zanzibar Archipelago have been discouraged from learning how to swim, largely due to the absence of modest swimwear. But in villages on the northern tip of Zanzibar, the Panje Project (panje translates as ‘big fish’) is providing opportunities for local women and girls to learn swimming skills in full-length swimsuits, so that they can enter the water without compromising their cultural or religious beliefs.

View more from Anna Boyiazis' "Finding Freedom In The Water' here.

Resilience - stories of women inspiring change features Anna Boyiazis' "Finding Freedom in the Water"

 Via World Press Photo

October 21, 2022

The World Press Photo Foundation presents a selection of stories, awarded in the annual World Press Photo Contest from 2000 to 2021, that highlight the resilience and challenges of women, girls and communities around the world.

Gender equality and justice are fundamental human rights critical in supporting cohesive societies. Yet women around the world face deeply entrenched inequality and remain underrepresented in political and economic roles. Worldwide in 2021, women represented just 26.1% of some 35,500 parliament seats, only 22.6% of over 3,400 ministers, and 27% of all managerial positions. Violence against women prevails as a serious global health and protection issue. An estimated one in three women will experience physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime.

This joint exhibition conveys the commitment of the Netherlands to women’s rights and gender equality and justice. Multiple voices, documented by 17 photographers of 13 different nationalities, offer insights into issues including sexism, gender-based violence, reproductive rights, and access to equal opportunities. The selection of stories explores how women and gender issues have evolved in the 21st century and how photojournalism has developed in the ways of portraying them.

A young woman learns to float, in the Indian Ocean, off Nungwi, Zanzibar, on 24 November 2016. Credit/©: Anna Boyiazis.

Finding Freedom in the Water shares the story of students from the Kijini Primary School who learn to swim and perform rescues, in the Indian Ocean, off of Muyuni Beach, Zanzibar. Traditionally, girls in the Zanzibar Archipelago have been discouraged from learning how to swim, largely due to the absence of modest swimwear. The Panje Project teaches local women and girls swimming skills in an effort to reduce high rates of drowning.

This story awarded in the 2018 World Press Photo Contest can be considered an example of photojournalism with a solutions approach. Rather than focusing only on problems, solutions journalism reports on how people are trying to deal with difficult social issues and what we can learn from their efforts. The series looks at how teaching women a vital skill like swimming can be an important step towards emancipation and gender justice.

'Resilience: stories of women inspiring change’ is on display in:


Sao Paulo, Brazil - 14 October to 6 November
Athens, Greece - 28 October to 18 November
Brasilia, Brazil - 4 to 20 November
Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 9 to 26 November
Porto Alegre, Brazil - 16 November to 4 December

Istanbul, Turkey - 24 November to 15 December
Dhaka, Bangladesh - 25 November to 10 December
Skopje, Macedonia - 25 November to 11 December

Ankara, Turkey - 25 November to 15 December

Anna Boyiazis' In World Press Photo Exhibition: Resilience – Stories Of Women Inspiring Change

 

Via World Press Photo

May 26, 2022

The World Press Photo Foundation, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the City of The Hague present a selection of stories, awarded in the World Press Photo Contests from 2000 to 2021, that highlight the resilience and challenges of women, girls and communities around the world.

Gender equality and justice is a fundamental human right critical in supporting cohesive societies. Yet women around the world face deeply entrenched inequality and remain underrepresented in political and economic roles. Worldwide in 2021, women represented just 26.1% of some 35,500 parliament seats, only 22.6% of over 3,400 ministers, and 27% of all managerial positions. Violence against women prevails as a serious global health and protection issue. An estimated one in three women will experience physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime.

This joint exhibition conveys the commitment of the Netherlands to women’s rights and gender equality and justice. Multiple voices, documented by 17 photographers of 13 different nationalities, offer insights into issues including sexism, gender-based violence, reproductive rights, and access to equal opportunities. The selection of stories explores how women and gender issues have evolved in the 21st century and how photojournalism has developed in the ways of portraying them.

The exhibition features Anna Boyiazis' "Finding Freedom in the Water" series.
 

Event location

Atrium City Hall

Spui 70

The Hague

The Netherlands

Visiting hours

Monday-Wednesday: 7.00 - 19.00

Thursday: 7.00 - 19.00

Friday: 7.00 - 19.00

Saturday: 9.30 - 17.00

For more information about World Press Photo, go to www.worldpressphoto.org.

Anna Boyiazis: Global Peace Photo Award Exhibition

 Via Willy-Brandt-Haus

© Anna Boyiazis, Global Peace Photo Award

Fr., 01. Oktober 2021 12:00 Uhr bis So., 24. Oktober 2021 18:00 Uhr

GLOBAL PEACE PHOTO AWARD

The Global Peace Photo Award recognizes and promotes photographers from all over the world whose images capture the human quest for a peaceful world and the search for the beautiful and good in our lives. The prize goes to those photographs that best express the idea that our future lies in peaceful coexistence. 

Ausstellung im Willy-Brandt-Haus | 1. Oktober - 24. Oktober 2021 | Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag - Sonntag 12:00 - 20:00 Uhr

Zutritt nur mit Zeitfensterticket, keine Tageskasse vor Ort.

Kostenlose Online-Tickets ab sofort HIER

Der Global Peace Photo Award würdigt und fördert Fotograf:innen aus aller Welt, deren Bilder das menschliche Streben nach einer friedlichen Welt und die Suche nach dem Schönen und Guten in unserem Leben festhalten. Der Preis geht an jene Fotografien, die am besten die Idee zum Ausdruck bringen, dass unsere Zukunft im friedlichen Miteinander liegt.  

Die 25-köpfige Jury des Global Peace Photo Award kürt seit 2013 die besten Friedensbilder. Den Vorsitz 2020 hatte der französische Fotograf Pascal Maitre, 2021 wurde die Jury vom UNESCO-Diplomaten Eric Falt geleitet. Das Peace Image of the Year 2020 heißt „Love Story“ und kommt aus der Hand des iranischen Fotografen Sasan Moayyedi: Nachdem der damals 15-jährige Salah Saeedpour 2001 in der iranisch-kurdischen Provinz Marivan nahe der Grenze zum Irak auf eine Landmine trat, verlor er mehrere Körperteile. Trotzdem trainierte er unerschöpflich und wurde schließlich mit zahlreichen Medaillen im Schwimmen ausgezeichnet. 2014 heiratete er die Liebe seines Lebens. 

Das Children Peace Image of the Year 2020 ist das Foto “Flight of the Soul” und wurde von der 14-jährigen Anastasiya Bolshakova aufgenommen. Die junge Russin hat eine Liebeserklärung an den Sommer fotografiert. An die Zeit, in der - wovon sie überzeugt ist - „alles lebt“ und „die Natur aus voller Brust atmet“.  

Die Gewinner:innen des Contests 2021 werden am 21. September gekürt.  

View Anna Boyiazis' Finding Freedom in the Water fine art print collection here.

 

 

 

In Case You Missed The Photojournalism Controversy Between BagNews Notes and Paolo Pellegrin (updates)

 From a series entitled “The Crescent” by Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin

 

BagNews Notes: When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough: Misrepresentation in a World Press and Picture of the Year Winning Photo


NPPA:  Paolo Pellegrin Responds To Claim Of Misrepresented Winning World Press, POYi Photos


PDN:  Paolo Pellegrin and His Subject At Odds Over Photograph


New York Times Lens:  A Prize-Winning Ethics Lesson?


Bag News Notes Update:   BagNews, Paolo Pellegrin and Reading the Pictures


Video: Rochester Democrat & Chonicle newspaper interviews subject of Pellegrin photo and Loret Steinberg (author of original BagNews article)


The On-Line Photographer:  Followup: Pellegrin Kerfuffle


Photo Contest Bashing: That Time of Year – by Jim Colton


Photographer Kenneth Jarecke:  Just Make It Happen


Samuel Corum: Is it Lying?


BagNewsNotes Response to World Press Pellegrin Decision, Controversy Overall


POYi:   POYi Conclusion


PDN: POYi Punts on Pellegrin Controversy


NY Times Lens: Prize-Winning Photos and Lingering Questions

What if a World Press Photo of The Year was taken in America?

“But it does say something about what you can do in your own backyard.” --Craig Walker

The 2012 World Press Photo of the Year

Samuel Aranda—The New York Times via Reuters

A woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011.

Today the winners of the prestigious 55th annual World Press Photo competition were announced in Amsterdam naming Samuel Aranda from Spain as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011.


"They called me yesterday around 7pm, and told me that I had won the World Press Photo," Samuel Aranda tells BJP in his first interview of the day. "At that exact moment, I was checking my bank account because I didn't know how I was going to pay my rent this month. I was crunching numbers to make it work."

 World Press Photo: "It was about the people," says jury chair Aidan Sullivan



Jury chair Aidan Sullivan speaks about the winning image by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda

World Press Photo: Does the winning image reference Michelangelo's Pietà?


Analysis: Yet, in spite of the strong islamist connotations of the full veil, I cannot help but be reminded of the Christian iconography of the Pieta in which the Virgin Mary holds the body of Jesus after his death


View the entire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest



By the numbers: 5, 247 Photographers, 124 Nationalities, 101, 254 pictures. Three hundred and fifty images by 57 photographers of 24 nationalities were awarded prizes in nine categories


World Press Photo: What was missing for this year's entries?  (For one, Occupy was not represented in this year's entries)



"My photo history class (at art history department) is going to hear all about the (ab)use of the pieta in their next class." "OK, I'm just going to say it: It might be time for an alternative to World Press Photo. Bc you know, I mean, come on!" http://twitter.com/jmcolberg

The most unforgettable images of the year / Best photographs of 2011

David Friend to Chair 2012 World Press Photo Contest

Via World Press Photo
Mon, 10/03/2011 - 13:39

 

World Press Photo is delighted to announce that the jury of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest will be chaired by David Friend, Vanity Fair's editor of creative development. The judging will take place in January-February 2012 in Amsterdam. Friend is chairing an international jury of 19 leading professionals in the field of photojournalism. The full list of judges will be announced later.
Based in New York, David Friend served as Life magazine's director of photography during the 1990s. As a correspondent, he covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere. As a web editor, he established Life.com and VanityFair.com. In 2008, he co-curated Vanity Fair Portraits, winning the Lucie Award for curator of the year, together with Terence Pepper. David Friend served previously on the World Press Photo jury in 2009.

David Friend reflects on the task of judging the contest: “This year the world has experienced a series of upheavals. The Arab Spring’s mass protests that triggered regime change across the Middle East were made possible, in part, by digital imagery and social media. The devastation and loss brought on by Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and the ongoing ravages of radiation were documented in film and footage that continue to haunt us. The humanitarian crisis in Somalia would be a largely muted grace note were it not for photojournalists revealing the extent of that catastrophe. The telltale signs of a chaotic global economy appear in every news cycle on the fringes of countless stories. And through it all, new technologies have allowed diverse image-makers to express, experiment and expand our perspectives. The coming World Press Photo Contest will doubtless serve to remind us how the still photograph can help focus and anchor us in uncertain times.”

Judging takes place at the World Press Photo office in Amsterdam from 28 January until 9 February 2012. The results of the contest will be announced on 10 February in a press conference at the Amsterdam City Hall and on the foundation’s website.

The 2012 World Press Photo Contest will be open for participants to enter their work from the beginning of December 2011. The deadline for submissions is 12 January 2012. Entries may only be submitted online. In the 2011 contest, a record number of 108,059 images was submitted to the contest. The number of participating photographers was 5,691, representing 125 different nationalities.
In 2011, World Press Photo held its first contest for multimedia production and a second edition of the contest will be held in 2012. Details about the multimedia contest will be announced later this year.
World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon and TNT.

 

 

About World Press Photo

World Press Photo is committed to supporting and advancing high standards in photojournalism worldwide. We strive to generate wide public interest in and appreciation for the work of photographers and for the free exchange of information. Our activities include organizing an annual contest, exhibitions, the stimulation of photojournalism through educational programs, and creating greater visibility for press photography through a variety of publications.

World Press Photo is run as an independent, non-profit organization with its office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where World Press Photo was founded in 1955.

For further information, please contact:

Ms. Sasja de Bie at World Press Photo, press@worldpressphoto.org or tel. +31(0)20 676 6096.

Premier International Festival of Photojournalism Visa pour l'Image Opens

Visa pour l'Image is the premier International Festival of Photojournalism held in Perpignan, France. This festival is a unique event where you can join thousands of kindred spirits who share a love and passion for photography. View the greatest photojournalist work from around the world in exhibitions across the city. Experience the evening screenings in the dramatic open air medieval enclosure of the Campo Santo. Take part in symposiums and conferences and meet the foremost photo agencies and manufacturers of photographic related equipment. Explore the web site for full details.

Contact information here.