World Press Photo Awards 2017 exhibitions
In this short film, shot at this year’s World Press Photo Festival of Visual Journalism in Amsterdam, we uncover how photography can still change the world.
“We live in a time when photography is the only real international language,” says Nature category first prize winner Brent Stirton, echoing the key message from this year’s World Press Photo Awards: that the ever increasing reach of visual stories brings with it new responsibilities.
Canon, which has sponsored World Press Photo since 1992, will print the prize-winning work on Canon large-format and Arizona flatbed printers to ensure a stunning display in these specially curated exhibitions that finish in Oldenburg, Germany on March 11, 2018.
And that ethos was one of the cornerstones of this year’s World Press Photo Festival of Visual Journalism. “In this industry, we can sometimes get caught up with recognition or validation,” said World Press Photo Contest Contemporary Issues first prize winner Amber Bracken. “I think that you have to just make what you want to make, and trust that eventually it will connect where it needs to.”