World Press Photo international exhibition comes to Moldova for the seventh time

Chisinau, 15 November /MOLDPRES/ - The seventh edition of World Press Photo International Exhibition was inaugurated at the National History Museum of Moldova today. For the first time ever, the exhibition will be staged in Comrat as well.  

In the beginning of the event, the museum’s director, Eugen Sava, said the exhibition comprised the best photographs, true art works, which show the reality of the world. In the context, Nadine Gogu, the executive director of the Centre of Independent Journalism, one of the event’s organizers, said that this exhibition must be extended also in other settlements and be visited by as many people as possible.      

The contest, World Press Photo 2023, was held in six regions from all over the world - Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, South America and South-Eastern Asia and Oceania. The jury eventually selected 24 regional winners, of whom four global winners were nominated: the Photograph of the Year World Press Photo – The Air Attack on the Maternity Hospital from Mariupol, by Evgeniy Maloletka for Associated Press; History of the Year World Press Photo – The Price of Peace in Afghanistan, by Mads Nissen for Politiken/Panos Pictures; the Long-Term Project World Press Photo - „Battered Waters", by Anush Babajanyan for VII Photo/National Geographic Society; Open Format  World Press Photo - „The Doors Don't Know Me", by Mohamed Mahdy.   

Those 24 winners and six mentions of honour, whose photos show stories from the first line of the war, culture, identity, migration, were selected by an independent jury out of a total number of 60,448   photographs, sent by 3,752 photographers from 127 countries. The  winning pictures of World Press Photo draw attention to the biggest problems faced by the mankind at present – documentation of the war in Ukraine and the war’s impact on the civilians, historical protests in Iran, the realities of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban, numerous aspects of the climate crisis in such countries as Morocco, Australia, Peru, Kazakhstan. At the same time, the contest highlights the importance of  the press photograph all over the world. The regional winners of the World Press Photo Contest 2023 are 24 photographs from 23 countries:  Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, China, Denmark, Ecuador,   Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Philippines, Ukraine, the United   States and Venezuela.       

The two exhibitions are organized by the Centre of Independent Journalism and the Piko Creative Agency, with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Chisinau. They will be opened till 6 December.