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World Press Photo Exhibition 2007
By MaltaMedia News
Sep 14, 2007 - 9:03:45 AM

The World Press Photo Exhibition comes to Malta for the first time between 14 September - 7 October 2007, with approximately 170award-winning photographs from across the globe that capture the most powerful, moving and at times disturbing images of the year.

Recognised as the definitive competition for photographic reporting, the World Press Photo Exhibition brings together images from all over the world. The subjects explored range from the shocking to the sublime, the beautiful to the barely believable, and include war-torn Iraq, street dancers in Paris, fans and footballers at the World Cup in Germany, the American Ms Senior Sweetheart Pageant, and the vicious hunting grounds of the Leopard seal.

The annual World Press Photo Exhibition is the best known of World Press Photo's activities and a leading event in the organization's calendar. Every year following the World Press Photo Contest, the winning images go on show. The exhibition is officially opened in Amsterdam as part of the prize-giving ceremony in April, and until March the next year can be seen at venues around the globe. The tour program takes in over 80 cities worldwide and is still expanding.

The exhibition is a showcase for creativity in photojournalism and a platform for developments in the profession, part of World Press Photo's aim of encouraging and stimulating the work of press photographers around the world. The show also attracts a broader public, and because of the wide-ranging focus of the contest forms an eyewitness record of world events of the previous year.

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Royal Dutch Embassy and supported by VisitMalta.com, The Strickland Foundation, The Valletta Local Council, TNT and Canon. See more of what's on in Malta and Gozo these days by visiting our Events Calendar