zaterdag 26 april 2008 / Kunst & Filosofie
World Press Photo Awards Days 2008
The prize-winners of the annual World Press Photo contest will present their work during the World Press Photo Awards Days from 25 to 27 April in Felix Meritis. Among them is Tim Hetherington, winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2007. His image shows a US soldier resting in a bunker in the Korengal Valley, in Afghanistan on 16 September. "This image represents the exhaustion of a man - and the exhaustion of a nation," says jury chairman Gary Knight.
Besides the presentations of the prize-winning photographers, the annual Sem Presser Lecture will again be held in cooperation with the Sem Presser Foundation. This year the World Press Photo Sem Presser Lecture is entitled Photobiography by Martin Parr (photographer Magnum Photos).
On Friday 25 April the book World Press Photo: New Stories will be launched. Ten essays by photographers from different countries, all of them former participants in our worldwide training programmes, formed the starting point for this new World Press Photo publication. On the occasion of the launch, photography lecturer D.J. Clark (Dalian Image Art College in China) will present the results of his research on the impact that digitalization is having on global photojournalism and on the way the developing world is being portrayed in the press. The book will be introduced by Adrian Evans (director of Panos Pictures).
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