Opening of World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 in Odesa
Today, December 6, the World Press Photo 2024 exhibition opened at the Odesa National Art Museum.
This year, the «Open Format» category winner is the photo series «War is Personal» by Ukrainian photographer Yuliya Kochetova.
Also reaching the finals of the European region is Johanna Maria Fritz's project «Kakhovka Hydroelectric Plant: Flood in the Combat Zone», created during the evacuation of civilians during the flood.
The Odesa Photo Days Festival is the organizer of the exhibition tour in Ukraine. The exhibition features 129 photographs documenting war, protests, migration and climate crises, as well as other significant events of 2023. Finalists were selected from over 61,000 submissions from 3,851 participants across 130 countries.
The exhibition in Ukraine has been made possible by the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine. Kyiv was the first city in the tour, where from late October to mid-November, 1,000 visitors saw the exhibition at the Dovzhenko Center.
The exhibition will showcase works from each of the 31 regional winners from 24 countries: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Myanmar, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States, and Venezuela.
The exhibition will run from December 6, 2024, to January 12, 2025.
Admission: 150 / 75 UAH.
The World Press Photo Foundation is an independent organization that supports photojournalists and documentary photographers while promoting the development of global photojournalism. It hosts workshops and seminars.
Odesa Photo Days is an international festival of contemporary photography founded in 2015 in response to the war in Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea. Since February 24, 2022, the festival has not been held, but the team continues to work with Ukrainian photographers and the international community to spread awareness about the war in Ukraine and assist those affected.
