WORLD PRESS PHOTO 11
09.09.–09.10.2011
Attracting over two and a half million people each year in over 100 locations, the world’s most prestigious annual exhibition of photojournalism visits Vienna for the tenth year running.
The 54th annual World Press Photo exhibition profiles the globe’s top press photographers and showcases the world’s best press photos of 2010. World Press Photo is the leading international competition in press photography. In 2010 the competition received a record 108,059 entries from 5,691 professional photographers from 125 countries.
The international jury awarded prizes across nine theme categories to 54 photographers. The prestigious World Press Photo of the Year was awarded to South African photographer Jodi Bieber for a portrait of Bibi Aisha, an 18-yearold woman from Afghanistan, who after fleeing her husband’s house complaining of violent treatment, had the Taliban arrive and take her back to her husband’s family for punishment. Jodi Bieber has previously won eight World Press Photo awards.
Since 1955 the board of the World Press Photo Foundation, an independent platform for photo-journalism which has its headquarters in Amsterdam, has invited press photographers and photo-journalists from all over the world to take part in the World Press Photo competition. An international jury, which is changed each year and consists of 19 members, judges the submitted entries that come from photographers, agencies, newspapers and magazines all over the world.
The main prize, the World Press Photo photo of the year is awarded to an individual photograph that is not only a summation of the previous year in photo-journalism but also deals with subject matter, a situation or event which has great journalistic significance and, at the same, time shows exceptional achievement in the areas of visual perception and creativity.
The show, which is conceived of as a travelling exhibition, will visit over 100 locations throughout the world and is seen by around two million visitors. It is not only an impressive demonstration of achievements in international photo-journalism but also a unique retrospective of events of worldwide importance and historical significance that have taken place during the previous year.
World Press Photo is supported by the Netherlands Postal Code Lottery and sponsored worldwide by Canon and TNT. Econgas is supporting the exhibition in Vienna.
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