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John Moore, Getty Images

World Press Photo 2019

06.09.–20.10.2019

World Press Photo 2019 Exhibition Opening

05.09.2019 – 19.00

The World on view at WestLicht: From 6 September the World Press Photo exhibition brings the best creations in the field of photojournalism to Vienna's Westbahnstraße.

As World Press Photo of the Year the jury selected an image by US-American photographer John Moore, which had become a symbol for the restrictive immigration policy of the USA under the Trump administration.

It is the eighteenth time in a row that WestLicht hosts the World Press Photo exhibition. In 2018 nearly 35.000 visitors came to see the show in Vienna, a new visitors record for WestLicht. As icons of the recent past, the awarded single images and photo series form a unique retrospective of last year’s events, covering topics from the areas of politics, society, sports and nature.

Marco Gualazzini / Contrasto

Mohammed Badra / European Pressphoto Agency

Catalina Martin-Chico / Panos

»Time and again, the World Press Photo Award demonstrates what high quality photojournalism can achieve and the risk photographers are taking on a regular basis in order to let us know, what is going on in the world. In times of constant attacks on the institution of the free press, this is something that cannot be overemphasized. This is why World Press Photo exhibition is of such great importance to us.«

WestLicht Chair Peter Coeln

Brent Stirton / Getty Images

Chris McGrath / Getty Images

Catalogue

→ Here available

Discover the winning images, selected from 78,801 pictures taken by 4,738 visual journalists from 129 countries, chosen by an independent jury. Over 230 pages, with high-quality printing of the best photographs and digital storytelling productions. The World Press Photo Yearbook 2019 showcases the stories that matter.

Publisher Till Schaap Edition
240 pages, German
9.80 x 7.52 inch
25 €

Since 1955, the World Press Photo Foundation, an independent platform for photojournalism based in Amsterdam, has organized the most prestigious contest in the field of press photography. A jury judges the entries from all over the world. The contest results in a travelling exhibition which embarks on a tour around the globe and is presented in more than 100 venues worldwide.