The World Press Photo 2021 exhibition in the Hungarian National Museum shows the results of the 63rd annual World Press Photo Contest. The contest rewards professional photographers for the best pictures - presented as singles or in stories - contributing to the past year of visual journalism.
This year 4,282 photographers from 125 countries entered 73,996 photographs to the contest. These visual stories are judged in terms of their accurate, fair, and compelling insights about our world. All entrants accept the code of ethics, and all winning pictures go through a rigorous verification process, ensuring they can be trusted to show the scene witnessed by the photographer. The contest is judged by a jury comprised of leading photography professionals, and its membership changes every year. They are independent of the World Press Photo Foundation, and it is the jury alone that chooses the winning pictures and stories that matter.
For over six decades, the World Press Photo Foundation has been working from its home in Amsterdam as an independent, nonprofit organization. In that time, new developments in media and technology have transformed journalism and storytelling. World Press Photo believes in the power of showing and seeing visual storytelling that is accurate, diverse and trustworthy. In these difficult times, freedom of expression, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of the press, is now more important than ever.
About the World Press Photo Foundation
"Connecting the world to the stories that matter"
World Press Photo is a global platform connecting professionals and audiences through trustworthy visual journalism and storytelling, founded in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized a contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to an international audience. Since then, their mission has expanded. Their contests have grown into the world’s most prestigious competitions, rewarding the best in visual journalism and digital storytelling. Through their successful worldwide exhibition program, they present to millions of people the stories that matter. Their Develop programs - including the 6x6 Global Talent Program, the African Photojournalism Database, the Joop Swart Masterclass, the Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative, and the West Africa Visual Journalism Initiative - encourage stories highlighting different perspectives of the world.
