The next April 18th world tour of the winning photos in the World Press Photo 2014 contest will give its kick-off in the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Amsterdam. Another year, the Dutch city stands as the world capital of photojournalism to be the first to showcase the magnificent winners in this prestigious event jobs.
A total of 42 winning photographs in such diverse categories such as news, sports, nature, portraits and daily life will be exposed. Special prominence occupy the winning photo this year by the Danish Mads Nissen, and shows the intimacy of a gay couple in Russia and denouncing discrimination and social harassment of this group in the country.
The exhibition will also display pictures as striking as the American Tyler Hicks, who caught the terrible scene of the murder of several children in an Israeli attack on a Gaza beach, or Italian Massimo Sestini, who photographed the rescue of a boat full of hundreds of illegal immigrants north of Libya.
The exhibition will be open until July 5, will also showcase the work of the winners of Multimedia Contest organized in parallel by the organization, which will be announced on 11 March. With these awards we want to recognize the special role they have acquired the videos and the Internet in today's journalism.
The special assembly that was available last year, to mark the return of exposure to the New Church in Amsterdam after 15 years, will return this year to surprise their visitors. The photos appear to be floating in the air in this vast Gothic church.
The World Press Photo Foundation was established in Amsterdam in 1955 and organized the international competition's most prestigious photojournalism worldwide, with a commitment to support the high standards of photojournalism and documentary photography worldwide.
More information: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/
Source: Logopress
