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The stories that matter ENGLISH Global partner Partner Partner Together we promote For the moments that Building trust in press freedom matter, we’ll be there society and solving important problems Welcome The World Press Photo Foundation believes in the power of showing and the importance of seeing high-quality visual stories. It all began in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized an international contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to a global audience. Since then the contest has grown into the world’s most prestigious photography competition, and the worldwide exhibition travels to more than 120 cities in 50 countries, reaching millions of people. Along with our annual festival and the World Press Photo House in Amsterdam, it showcases stories that make people stop, feel, think and act. Our contests reward the best in visual journalism and digital storytelling. Our Develop programs - including the 6x6 Global Talent Program, the African Photojournalism Database, the Joop Swart Masterclass, the Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative and the West Africa Visual Journalism Fellowship - encourage diverse accounts of the world that present stories with different perspectives. Witness, our online magazine, publishes new talent and new thinking in visual journalism and storytelling. We connect the global community of visual journalism and storytelling to a worldwide audience. worldpressphoto.org 3 This exhibition shows the results of the 63rd annual World Press Photo Contest. The contest rewards professional photographers for the best pictures - presented as singles or in stories - contributing to the past year of visual journalism. This year 4,282 photographers from 125 countries entered73,996 photographs to the contest. These visual stories are judged in terms of their accurate, fair, and compelling insights about our world. All entrants accept the For over six decades, the World Press Photo Foundation code of ethics, and all winning pictures go through a rigorous has been working from its home in Amsterdam as an verification process, ensuring they can be trusted to show the independent, nonprofit organization. In that time, new scene witnessed by the photographer. The contest is judged developments in media and technology have transformed by a jury comprising leading photography professionals, journalism and storytelling. Our mission has expanded, and its membership of the jury changes every year. They are and we draw on our experience to guide visual journalists, independent of the World Press Photo Foundation, and it is storytellers, and audiences around the world through this the jury alone that chooses the winning pictures and stories challenging and exciting landscape. that matter. We support the conditions that make visual journalism and #WPPh2020 storytelling possible, including the freedom of expression, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of the press. The need for images and stories we can trust has never been greater, and the high-quality reports in this exhibition and on our media channels bring you important insights about our world. Sometimes that is done with beautiful photographs and sometimes that requires presenting difficult stories, but they are all accurate and they all matter. We are supported by our global partner, the Dutch Postcode Lottery, and our partners, Aegon and PwC. We appreciate the help of our partners, contributors, supporters, Associates, and Trustees in making our work possible. 4 5 Portraits, 3rd Prize Singles Portraits, 2nd Prize Singles Alon Skuy Lee-Ann Olwage South Africa, Sunday Times South Africa Black Drag Magic - Portrait of a Drag Artist and Activist Musa’s Struggle and Search for the Stage Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie, a drag artist and activist, poses at Professional dancer Musa Motha, who dances on crutches, poses a shisanyama—a community space where women cook and sell after a practice session in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa. meat—in Khayelitsha, a township located on the Cape Flats, near Cape Town, South Africa. Musa was a rising football player when, at the age of 11, he had his leg amputated below the knee as a result of cancer. Musa refocused Belinda, the photographer, and other black, queer, gender non- his ambitions and took up dance. He uses gravity and his crutches, conforming and transgender people collaborated in a project to together with the physical flexibility he learned as a football player, decolonize drag culture and find a particularly African expression to perfect his moves. He performs with the Vuyani Dance Theatre, a of drag. The aim was also to highlight the need for the African contemporary dance company in Johannesburg. lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer (LGBTQ+) community to find their identities irrespective of their backgrounds, and to reclaim the public space in a community where they are subject to discrimination, harassment and violence. Discrimination is part of everyday life for LGBTQ+ people in townships such as Khayelitsha, especially in public areas. 6 7 Nominee, World Press Portraits, 3rd Prize Stories Photo of the Year, Portraits, 1st Prize Singles Tadas Kazakevičius Tomek Kaczor Lithuania Poland, for Duży Format, Gazeta Wyborcza Awakening Ewa, a 15-year-old Armenian girl, recently woken from catatonic Between Two Shores state brought on by Resignation Syndrome, sits in a wheelchair in a The Curonian Spit is a 98-kilometer-long curved, sand-dune spit refugee center in Podkowa Leśna, Poland. that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. Even at its heart, you are never far from one or the other shore. The Resignation Syndrome (RS) puts patients into a semi-coma. It photographer wants to convey that space is supposed to be heard, affects psychologically traumatized children in the midst of lengthy smelled, absorbed, and felt with all possible senses because the asylum processes. Remission and gradual return to normal function eyes do not show enough. The subjects of the portraits chose their occurs after life circumstances improve. Ewa succumbed to RS own locations, and closed their eyes to emphasize their connection while her family were in Sweden and threatened with deportation to to the landscape. Poland, their country of first arrival as refugees. They feared being Karolis is the first of a new generation Vitalija stands beside a boat her sent back to Armenia. The family was deported to Poland, despite of fishermen. late artist husband was planning Ewa’s illness, but she recovered eight months after they arrived. to restore. Local sculptor Albertas ‘feels’ his place in Griekyne forest. Saulius, a graphic artist born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Snow covers sand dunes. A tree beside the Curonian Lagoon. A signpost on the path to the Vecekrugo dune. Cormorants have been making a comeback since the 1980s. Arunas is famous for driving his big Ford Thunderbird. 8 9 Portraits, 2nd Prize Stories Portraits, 1st Prize Stories Tatsiana Tkachova Adam Ferguson Belarus Australia, The New York Times Magazine Between Right and Shame Belarus abortion laws are among the most liberal in Europe. Yet abortion is still a taboo for many women, and the decision to have a termination is often accompanied by a sense of shame. Belarusian women who have considered or undergone abortion tell their stories. They did not want to show their faces and their names have been changed. The Haunted As the Islamic State group (IS) retreated from territory around Diana (91) had her leg amputated she could not cope with two children, Mosul in northern Iraq, thousands of former IS prisoners, including when she was very young and fell so had an abortion the second time pregnant at the age of 20. The father she conceived. Yazidi people and other minorities, were liberated. Many were and she were in a casual relationship in severe states of trauma having undergone human rights and he left her when he found out. Alexandra (35) had an abortion when violations perpetrated by IS. People living in refugee camps in the His mother said she did not want a she was 23, after her older boss had region suffer the effects of this personal and cultural trauma, crippled daughter-in-law. Diana felt forced her into a sexual relationship. which include feelings of powerlessness, tension, and a variety of nobody needed her with her disability, She again had a termination some physical illnesses. never again allowed anybody to come years later, when she was a nursing close, and never married. mother and expecting a second child. Rezan (11), who was kidnapped by Noora Ali Abbas (60) sits with her She was not allowed an immediate IS in 2014 and freed in early 2019, at grandson Harreth (6) at their tent in Natalia (62) was pregnant at the time pill-induced abortion, but proceeding the Khanke IDP Camp in Dohuk, Iraqi Salamiyah IDP Camp 2, Nineveh, Iraq. of the explosion at the Chernobyl with a pregnancy she knew she was Kurdistan. Noora suffers from depression and nuclear power plant. Although the later going to end upset her deeply. anxiety and doesn’t like to let Harreth baby was born healthy, she didn’t dare Jitan (14), pictured in Khanke Village, out of her sight. risk another pregnancy as she feared Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, was kidnapped the effects of radiation. She also felt in 2014 and now speaks Arabic better than his native Kurdish. 10 11 Environment, 3rd Prize Singles Environment, 2nd Prize Singles Frédéric Noy Noah Berger France, Panos Pictures United States, for Associated Press Lake Victoria Dying Battling the Marsh Fire A fisherman who works illegally on Lake Victoria refloats the boat Firefighters battle the Marsh Complex Fire, near the town of that he keeps hidden all day, before going fishing with a colleague, Brentwood, California, USA, on 3 August. in Murchison Bay, Uganda. The Marsh Complex Fire began near Marsh Creek Road in Contra Lake Victoria, nearly 60,000 square kilometers in area, harbors Costa County on 3 August and burned until 7 August, laying waste to immense natural resources but is threatened by industrial, more than 300 hectares of land.