Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Concours

Dear friend of World Press Photo, The results of the 49th World Press Photo contest were announced last month. Now we're looking forward to two big events on our calendar, the Awards Days and the start of the 2006 exhibition tour. We're excited to present another year of excellent photojournalism. 2006 Awards Days On 22 and 23 April, Amsterdam will again host presentations, discussions and lectures as part of the annual World Press Photo Awards Days. Photojournalism professionals from around the world will participate, leading up to the annual Awards Ceremony. This year's Sem Presser Lecture will be given by Oliviero Toscani. Among his many projects, Toscani is known worldwide for his work for Benetton and the magazine Colors. He will address the underlying similarities between photographic genres in a talk entitled “There isn't photography and photography. There is just photography.” On the evening of 23 April, http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=703&Itemid=39&bandwidth=high, the author of the World Press Photo of the Year 2005, will receive his prize at a ceremony in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam. After the Awards Ceremony will come the formal opening of the World Press Photo exhibition. Along with the prize-winning photos, a special selection of O'Reilly's work and Ordinary, images by the 12 participants of the 2005 Joop Swart Masterclass, will be on show in the Oude Kerk. Provisional program Awards Days: http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=703&Itemid=39&bandwidth=high The winning photos http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=703&Itemid=39&bandwidth=high is a Canadian journalist based in Senegal. His photo of a mother and son was taken in Tahoua, Niger. O'Reilly told World Press Photo, “It was around the time of the 2005 G8 Summit and Live 8 concerts, both of which were aimed at focusing the spotlight on African poverty. There was a lot of media coverage of politicians and celebrity musicians in the West, but we heard very little from Africans themselves." Read more: http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=702&Itemid=39&bandwidth=high For this year's contest 4,448 professional photographers from 122 countries entered 83,044 images. In the end, prizes were awarded to 63 photographers of 25 nationalities. The award-winning single pictures, plus selections from each story, can be seen in our online gallery. The complete picture stories will be posted 24 April. Winners' gallery: http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=16&Itemid=137&bandwidth=high 2006 exhibition on tour Just after the opening in Amsterdam, the exhibition will travel to cities around the world, including London, Hamburg, Rome, Poznan and Sydney. In London, we have had a change of venue. For the last ten years, the photos have been shown in the Royal Festival Hall. Because the hall is being renovated, the 2006 exhibition will be on view 4-28 May in the renowned Royal Albert Hall, with sponsorship from our partners at Canon UK. The worldwide exhibition calendar: http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_calendar&task=view&catid=95&Itemid=83&bandwidth=high Climate campaign With support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery, World Press Photo has joined in a collaborative effort to raise awareness of climate change. In its part of the two-year project, World Press Photo will train six African photographers and assign them to record the local effects of global warming. Read more: http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=630&Itemid=50&bandwidth=high World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon and TNT.