World Press Photo Exhibition

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World Press Photo Exhibition

  Image: 2010 1st Prize Daily Life Single: Man carries a shark through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia. By Omar Feisal/Reuters

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World Press Photo Exhibition

  Image: 2010 3rd Prize Daily Life Single: An overcrowded train approaching a station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. By Andrew Biraj/Reuters.

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The World Press Photo Exhibition will feature works portraying the quiet dignity of a young Afghan girl disfigured for fleeing her husband’s home; the fiery death of a suicide jumper; the devastating aftermath of the Haiti and China earthquakes; the raw emotion felt by rioters in Thailand, the beauty of a soaring bird and more.

Each year the exhibition showcases a selection of the top press and editorial photographs. There are nine categories covering arts, nature, sports, spot news, general news, portraits, daily life, contemporary issues and people in news. Bringing together pictures from all parts of the world and creating a very truthful and in many cases affecting experience.

This travelling exhibition is the result of an annual worldwide press photography contest, with an international jury selecting winners from over 108,000 images entered in the competition in 2011. The prize winning photos are then assembled into an exhibition of over 160 photos, which travels to 45 counties, including New Zealand, during the course of a year.


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