2014 World Press Photo Exhibition – 7 November – 26 November 2014, Royal Festival Hall, London
The World Press Photo Exhibition returns to Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 7 November 2014. World Press Photo is the premier annual international competition in press photography, bringing together award-winning photographs from around the world, which capture the most powerful, moving and sometimes disturbing images of the year. This year 98,671 images were submitted to the contest by 5,754 photographers, representing 132 different nationalities. Exhibited without censorship in about 100 cities, in 45 countries all over the world. The World Press Photo Exhibition offers an international showcase for all of the competition’s prize-winning entries, and is considered by many to set a standard in the field of photojournalism. The exhibition brings together approximately 140 of the winning photographs, most of which were taken in 2013.
7 November – 26 November 2014
Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Open daily 10am to 11pm
FREE
The winning photographs depict a range of topics from human suffering, natural disasters, sporting endeavours to the beauty of the natural world. Subject matters in the news categories cover conflicts in Syria, Kenya, Iran, Gaza, Central African Republic and the aftermaths of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The sport category covers sporting events around the world and in the Nature category, one photographer shows the impact of industry on the environment through a series of arial photographs from a power plant in Poland. The World Press Photo of the Year 2013, by American photographer John Stanmeyer of the VII Photo Agency, shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city at night, raising their phones in an attempt to capture an inexpensive signal from neighbouring Somaliaa tenuous link to relatives abroad. Djibouti is a common stop-off point for migrants in transit from such countries as Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, seeking a better life in Europe and the Middle East. The picture also won First Prize in the Contemporary Issues category, and was shot for National Geographic.
First Prize – Contemporary Issues – John Stanmeyer
Image – African migrants on the shore of Djibouti City at night raise their phones in an attempt to catch an inexpensive signal from neighbouring Somalia—a tenuous link to relatives abroad.
The 2014 contest saw four UK photographers winning prizes. Abbie Trayler-Smith who won second prize in the Staged Portrait category with a photograph of Shannon, a sixteen-year old from Sheffield who has chosen to have a balloon inserted into her stomach for six months, to help her lose weight. Photographer Nadav Kander won third prize in the category Staged Portraits Single. He won with a portrait of British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor who played the main role in the film 12 Years a Slave. Marcus Bleasdale won third prize in the Contemporary Issues category with a series of photographs of modern-day whalers. Julie McGuire secured third place in the Daily Life category with a photograph of an asylum for street dogs in Malaysia.
World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon.
All prize-winning entries are included in the yearbook, World Press Photo 2014, published by Thames & Hudson.
Final Embrace
Image – Victims lie in the rubble, on the day after the Rana Plaza building, which accommodated five garment factories, collapsed – Taslima Akhter
Exhibition Guide: a free mobile application
_World Press Photo offers a free and updated mobile Exhibition Guide. This application, which is available for both iOS and Android smartphones, enhances the user’s experience by allowing them to discover more about the exhibited photographs and their authors, and learn about the equipment they used. New this year: for a selection of images, there will be a personal audio tour by the photographer who created the image. Another new feature is that every photo caption can be translated in 9 languages. After their visit, guests can view their favourite photos and continue the experience online. The Exhibition Guide can be downloaded throughout the 2014 exhibition season, from the World Press Photo website: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/app
Blind Indian Albion Boys
Image – Blind albino students stand in a dorm at the Vivekananda Mission School, a boarding school for the blind – Brent Stirton
The World Press Photo foundation is committed to supporting and advancing high standards in photojournalism and documentary storytelling worldwide. Its aim is to generate wide public interest in and appreciation of the work of photographers and other visual journalists, as well as to promote the free exchange of information. Activities include organising annual photojournalism and multimedia contests, and global exhibition tours. The programs of the Academy strive to stimulate high-quality visual journalism through educational programs, grants and a variety of publications. World Press Photo is an independent non-profit organisation with its office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where it was founded in 1955
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
