World Press Photo 14

Overview

World-renowned photojournalists from all over the globe converge to share a glimpse of their world, to make sense of the images that surround us, on personal, environmental, social and political planes.

The 57th annual Worlds Press Photo exhibition celebrates the best behind the lens as well as in front of it; categories from science to portraiture, news and current affairs to human nature in its gore and glory are filled by near 100,000 images from 132 countries worldwide.

Last year’s winner of the award was John Stanmeyer of the US, whose image of African migrants holding their phones to the sky, scraping signals that connect them to their relatives in neighbouring provinces was also deemed first in the category of Contemporary Issues. This is just one of the many irreplaceable images to come from the world’s best photographers, compelling at least and intriguing beyond measure. The world’s images are often more mystifying than any hand-made creation, revealing the beauty and contradictories of the world around us.