World Press Photo 2024

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World Press Photo is the best-known photojournalism exhibition worldwide, bringing together all the winners of the World Press Photo photography and Digital Narrative competitions.

Chosen for their exceptional visual quality, the exhibition presents all the prize-winning photographs and multimedia pieces which offer different perspectives on global current affairs—the majority of which are unpublished in Spain.

The Barcelona experience goes beyond the mere observation of the winning works; they are complemented with a carefully chosen program of parallel activities open to the public, designed to generate debate and to examine in greater depth the themes of the winning projects.

This year's exhibition includes 24 winning projects, including the Photo of the Year, showing a Palestinian woman hugging her niece killed by an Israeli missile and a story by Spanish photographer Jaime Rojo about what is being done to save the monarch butterflies. In addition, six honorable mentions are also exhibited (one for each region of the contest) and, exceptionally, two special mentions with which the jury wanted to highlight two pictures that coincide in showing single people—Israeli in one case, Palestinian in the other—in the midst of scenarios where dramatic deadly attacks have occurred.

Apart from the conflict between Israel and Palestine, other topics covered in the exhibition are the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, mental health issues, migration and family ties.

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