Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma hosts from today, May 5 until June 4, the 66th edition of the World Press Photo 2023.
The exhibition will showcase the finalist photos from the prestigious photojournalism award, which annually honors various professional photographers for their best shots, contributing to the narrative of global visual journalism.
The photos selected for the exhibition were chosen from 60,000 images and projects submitted by 3,752 photographers from 127 countries.
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Among the photographers featured in the World Press Photo exhibition, we highlight:
Evgeniy Maloletka, author of a heartbreaking shot from March 2022 during the siege of Mariupol in Ukraine.
The subject of the shot is a pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher out of the maternity ward of a damaged hospital during a Russian airstrike. The severely injured woman died half an hour after giving birth to her stillborn child.
The winner of the World Press Photo Story of the Year was Mads Nissen, a Danish photographer, with his story The Price of Peace in Afghanistan: nine haunting yet beautiful photos that aim to highlight the daily struggles of the Afghan people living under the Taliban regime in the absence of international aid.
The World Press Photo Long-Term Project Award was awarded to Battered Waters by Armenian photographer Anush Babajanyan, for VII Photo/National Geographic Society.
The project highlights the impact of drought and water management in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan following the fall of the Soviet Union and showcases the powerful spirit of resilience among populations forced to adapt to the new reality.
The World Press Photo Open Format Award was awarded to Egyptian photographer Mohamed Madhy for Here, The doors don’t know me, which tells the story of a fishing community that is disappearing in the Al Max neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt. The work is structured on multiple levels, comprising a photographic approach, archival material from residents, letters, handwritten drawings, videos, and sounds.
Finally, among the honorable mentions are those for Italian Simone Tramonte with Net-Zero Transition and Alessandro Cinque with Alpaqueros, a project dedicated to the evolution of families balancing survival, traditions, and sustainability.
If you are also interested in all the other must-see exhibitions of 2023 in Rome, Venice, Naples, Turin and Milan, we recommend our insights:
Rome: the main exhibitions 2023
Venice: exhibitions to see in 2023
Exhibitions in Naples: what to see in 2023
Exhibitions in Milan 2023: the five not to miss
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