World Press Photo 2023

World Press Photo Exhibition 2023 opens at Artsvit Gallery and Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture on February 2nd, 2024. Presenting the results of the foundation’s annual photo contest, the World Press Photo Exhibition showcases the best photojournalism and documentary photography of 2022. The event in Ukraine is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine. The exhibition partner — Odesa Photo Days Festival.

Dnipro is the third city on the national exhibition tour. Over 2000 viewers visited the exhibition in Kyiv and Kharkiv from November 2023.

The global winner of the World Press Photo 2023 contest was Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka with his photo "Mariupol Maternity Hospital Airstrike", which he took in the besieged city in March 2022. This year's European jury was headed by Kateryna Radchenko, curator and founder of the international festival of contemporary photography Odesa Photo Days.

Kateryna Radchenko, curator and founder of Odesa Photo Days Festival (Ukraine), 2023 Contest European jury chair, shared her insights,

“For the jury it was really important to show the stories from Ukraine. We decided that we will not try to avoid shock images. A war is a war and the world has to see it how it is. WPP Exhibition 2023 was shown in dozens countries all around the world where people thanks to documentary photography learned about russian war crimes”

In total, the exhibition features images of all 24 regional winners from 23 countries. The 2023 World Press Photo Contest winning works represent both major news events and important moments overlooked by the mainstream media in 2022: from the devastating documentation of the war in Ukraine and historic protests in Iran, to the realities in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and the many faces of the climate crisis in Morocco, Australia, Peru, and Kazakhstan.

Brent Lewis, photo editor at The New York Times, co-founder of Diversify Photo, and 2023 Contest global jury chair, said about this year’s entries,

“The photographs that we have chosen to represent 2022 are indicative of this moment in time, and will serve as historical documents of what the year was like for future generations to look back on and hopefully learn from.”

WHEN: February 2 — February 24, 2024

WHERE: Artsvit gallery, Dnipro, Krutohirnyi Uzviz (Descent), 21A. Entrance through sliding doors from Uspenska Square

FREE ENTRANCE

Odesa Photo Days is an international contemporary photography festival founded in 2015 as a response to the war in eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Since February 24, 2022, Odesa Photo Days has changed its focus: the festival in Odesa has been canceled, and the team is now working with Ukrainian photographers and the international community to tell the world what is happening in Ukraine and help those affected by the war.

The World Press Photo Foundation is a global platform connecting photojournalists, documentary photographers and our worldwide audiences through trustworthy storytelling. World Press Photo was founded in 1955 by a group of Dutch photographers who organized a contest to expose their work to an international audience. The World Press Photo Foundation is supported by its strategic partners, the Dutch Postcode Lottery and PwC.