The power of photojournalism
Now that the contest has come to a close, the next phase begins; exposing the work worldwide through a travelling exhibition that opens in Amsterdam on April 14, 2017. Thereafter, the prize-winning photographs will travel to 100 cities and 45 countries, with an expected audience of four million visitors.
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.
Find an exhibition near you in World Press Photo’s regularly updated exhibition calendar: https://www.worldpressphoto.org/exhibitions
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.”
Check out the above film to go even deeper into the power of photography to change our view of the world.
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