This year, Artsvit Gallery and Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture were lucky enough to once again demonstrate the best examples of photojournalism and documentary photography for 2023 - the exhibition with the results of the World Press Photo competition will open on February 22, starting at 6:30 p.m. The event in Ukraine is taking place with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine. The exhibition partners are the Odesa Photo Days Festival.
The exhibition will feature 129 photographs documenting war, protests, migration and climate crises, and other important events of 2023. The finalists were selected from over 61,000 works sent by 3,851 participants from 130 countries around the world. All photos are winners of regional competitions in the Long-Term Project and Open Format nominations, as well as two special awards.
Dnipro is the third city in the all-Ukrainian tour of the exhibition. The exhibition has already been seen in Kyiv and Odessa.
This year, the winner in the “Photo of the Year” category was photographer Mohammed Salem with the photo “Palestinian Woman Embracing the Body of Her Dead Niece”, taken in the Gaza Strip. And this year’s finalists in the European region were two series from Ukraine — Johanna Maria Fritz’s project “Kahov Dam: Flooding in a War Zone”, taken during the evacuation of civilians during the flood. The global winner in the “Open Format” category was Ukrainian photographer Yulia Kochetova with the project “War is Personal”, which intertwines photographic images, poetry, video clips and music, allowing the author to convey the experience of war through her own experience.
The exhibition will run until February 22, 2025. We are open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 19:00.
WHEN: January 22, at 6:30 PM
WHERE: Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Krutogornyy Uzviz 21a. Entrance through the glass sliding doors from the side of Uspenskaya Square
ADMISSION IS FREE
Photo: Oleg Samoilenko
Photo on the poster: World Press Photo 2024 winner in the “Open Format” nomination, “War is Personal” © Yulia Kochetova
The World Press Photo Foundation is a global platform that unites photojournalists, documentary photographers and our global audience through authentic storytelling. Founded in 1955 by a group of Dutch photographers who organized a competition to present their work to an international audience. The World Press Photo Foundation is supported by strategic partners — the Dutch Postcode Lottery and PwC.
