Read Time: < 1 minutesbcltr brings you some of the most expressive award winning images from the travelling photo exhibition
Every year, the World Press Photo curates a stunning exhibition of some the most evocative pictures clicked, travelling worldwide to 100 cities and 45 countries, to an audience of almost 4.4 million people globally. The free exhibition is a must see, as not only does it capture stunning visuals but also the mood of the world we inhabit. The selection process for it isn’t easy either. The World Press Photo Foundation (WPPF) has to sieve through thousands of entries before choosing them, this year alone at least 82,951, pictures were submitted from 128 countries. “This year we had more photographers and more entries than ever in our contest. We see that the photographers are as committed as we are to providing accurate and fair images on the world’s most important events and issues,” said Lars Boering, Managing Director, WPPF. In addition to that, they also have to choose winners of 15 categories such as General News, Contemporary Issues, People Stories, Nature, Daily Life etc, as well as the winner of the World Press Photo competition. All in all, a hard job, but the end results are always stunning visuals of global issues and what the year has been. Unfortunately for all of us, they do not exhibit in India. For this very reason, sblctr has made its list of some of the pictures you cannot miss from the 2016 exhibition. Have a look.
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World Press Photo Of the Year by Warren Richardson. Titled, Hope For A New Life, it depicts a baby being handed through a hole in a razor wire barrier, to a Syrian refugee who has already crossed the borderfrom Serbia into Hungary, near Röszke.
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Sergey Ponomarev won the first prize for his story on the refugee crisis for the New York times in the General News category. In this particular picture, a man struggles to board a train headed to the Croatian capital Zagreb, in Tovarnik, a town near the border with Serbia.
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The Forgotten Mountains of Sudan by Adriane Ohanesian. Adam Abdel (7) was badly burned when a bomb dropped by a government plane landed next to his family’s home, in rebel-held territory in Darfur. Adam was blown out of the house by the force of the blast, and his clothes caught fire. Two weeks later, his burns were still healing. Treatment was hard to obtain, because the government continued to deny NGOs and relief workers access to rebel-held territory.
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Storm front on Bondi Beach by Rohan Kelly. A massive shelf cloud moves towards Bondi Beach.
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IS Fighter Treated at Kurdish Hospital by Mauricio Lima. A doctor rubs ointment on the burns of Jacob, a 16-year-old fighter from the group calling itself Islamic State (IS), in front of a poster of Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), at a hospital in Al-Hasaka, northern Syria.
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March Against Terrorism in Paris by Corentin Fohlen won the second prize in the Spot News category.
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From the photo series Bliss Dharma Assembly by Kevin Frayer. A Tibetan Buddhist nomad woman prepares tea at dusk, following a chanting session.
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The Power of Nature by Sergip Tapero. Colima Volcano erupts with rock showers, lightning, and lava flows. The volcano, which is one of the most active in Mexico, showed an increase in activity from July onwards.
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La Maya Tradition by Daniel Ochoa de Olza. The feast of Las Mayas, in Colmenar Viejo, on the outskirts of Madrid, has its origins in pagan ritual. It is held annually at the beginning of May, to celebrate spring. Five or six groups create altars adorned with plants and flowers on the main town square and adjacent streets, and each selects a young girl between the ages of six and 15 to be a ‘Maya’. She must then sit on the altar—very still, silent and serious—wearing a white blouse and skirt, and a Manila shawl.
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FIS World Championships by Christian Walgram. Czech skier Ondrej Bank crashes during the downhill portion of the alpine combined contest, at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Bank stumbled and lost control just before the final jump. He was hospitalized with concussion and facial injuries.
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Zohreh Saberi won the third prize in the Daily Life category for her picture, Into The Light, which shows 13-year-old Raleigh who is born blind as she stands behind a window in the morning, to feel the warmth of the sun on her face.
