World Press Photo

World Press Photo is an independent and not-lucrative organization founded in 1955 and based with Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its goal is to stimulate and support the development of the Photojournalisme, to encourage the transmission of knowledge in this field and to promote the free and not-restricted exchange of information. This organization works with the international scales. It thus organizes many events throughout the world: conferences, workshops and, once per annum, the " Joop Swart Masterclass".

It is known especially to organize each year a prestigious contest of photojournalism, with many categories in addition to “World Press Photo of the year”:

Spot News
General News
People in the News
Sports Action
Sports Features
Contemporary Exits
Daily Life
Portraits
Arts and Natural Entertainment
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Once the announced prizes winner, the gaining photographs are brought together in a road show which visits 40 different countries and touches million visitors. Moreover, one book showing these photographs is published in 6 languages.

Some prizes winner of World Press Photo

Dominique Aubert
Daniel Lainé (1991)
Michel Denis-Huot (1997, 2001 Natural category)
Jan Šibík (2004, 3rd price sport category)
Finbarr O' Reilly (World Press Photo of the year 2005)
Spencer Platt (World Press Photo of the year 2006)
Denis Darzacq (2006, category “Arts and Entertainment Stories”)

Coordinates

World Close Photo
Jacob Obrechtstraat 26
1071 km Amsterdam
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Web site of World Press Photo

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