World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 opens at Artsvit Gallery and Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture on January 22nd, 2025. Presenting the results of the foundation’s annual photo contest, the World Press Photo Exhibition showcases the best photojournalism and documentary photography of 2023. 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. The exhibition has already been seen in Kyiv and Odesa.
This year, the winner of the category “Photo of the Year” is photographer Mohammed Salem with his photo "A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece", taken in the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the finalists from the European region include work from Ukraine: a project by Johanna Maria Fritz titled “Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant: Flood in the Combat Zone”, taken during the evacuation of civilians during the flood. Also The Global winner in category “Open Format” became a 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 perspective.
In total, 129 photographs will be presented, documenting the war, protests, migration and climate crises and other significant events of 2023. Finalists were chosen from over 61,000 works submitted by 3,851 participants from 130 countries worldwide. All photos are winners of regional competitions in the categories of "Long-Term Project” and "Open Format", as well as two special mentions.
“These selected works are a kind of tapestry of our modern world, focusing on images that we believe are made with respect and honesty, have the ability to speak universally and resonate far beyond their origins. This is an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of photojournalists and documentary photographers around the world – made with courage, intelligence and ingenuity – and to highlight the importance of the stories they tell, often in incredible circumstances,” said Fiona Shields, Head of Photography at The Guardian and Chair of the Global Jury for the 2024 World Press Photo Competition.
WHEN: January 22 — February 22, 2025
WHERE: Artsvit gallery, Dnipro, Krutohirnyi Uzviz (Descent), 21A. Entrance through sliding doors from Uspenska Square
FREE ENTRANCE
Photo on the poster: the Open Format Award of the World Press Photo 2024, «War Is Personal» © Yulia Kochetova
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.
