World Press Photo has made perhaps the biggest change in its seven-decade history this year by making the pre-selection of the world's most prestigious competition regional, resulting in a more meaningful assessment of local events. From now on, entries from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, South America, South East Asia and Oceania will be judged separately. Instead of the previous categories, there are now only four categories: individual photo, photo report, long term work and the so-called open format.
These changes will, it is hoped, give us an even better insight into what is happening around us from around the world through different forms of documentary photography. Of course, in addition to the regional awards, there are also global winners.
Our lives have recently been dominated by the epidemic, and regional conflicts have moved ever closer to home. In this exhibition we will see genuine images and genuine stories, stories that are sure to make the viewer think.
Over the past four years, the exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum has been one of the most visited in the world, with over forty-five thousand visitors. Following the extraordinary success of previous years, the exhibition will be open for five weeks again this year. The exhibition of exciting entries is traditionally accompanied by an accompanying exhibition.
Accompanying exhibition:
MILÁN RADISICS "OUR FOOTPRINT - MAN'S IMPACT ON OUR PLANET"
The artist's work explores certain parts of Europe through aerial photography, where dramatic changes can be seen in his many national and international award-winning images.
The images in World Press Photo 2022 have been selected by an international jury from 4066 photojournalists from 130 countries and 64823 photos. The travelling exhibition has been viewed by more than four million people in 120 venues worldwide.
Since 1955, the World Press Photo Foundation in the Netherlands has organised the world's most important competition and, as a result, the most visited exhibition, which always presents the previous years' important events in 120 venues.
The exhibition has been organised by Herald Europe Kft. for three decades and its coordinator is Tamás Révész, who has been a jury member and winner of several World Press Photo awards.
Tamás Révész, Managing Director, Herald Europa Ltd.
tamas.revesz@gmail.com,
https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photocontest/2022
