World Press Photo Exhibition 2020 starts its worldwide tour

• The World Press Photo Exhibition 2020 showcases the best visual journalism of 2019.
• Due to start from 17 April, some locations of the exhibition worldwide tour had to be canceled or postponed to later in the year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The exhibition premiered in Amsterdam on 1 June with special safety measures, and seven exhibition locations will follow in the coming months: Prague, Rome, Berlin, Alkmaar, Montreal, Budapest, Dortmund, and Barcelona.
• As governments in some countries start to ease measures, other locations will be able to open in 2020 and 2021.

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The World Press Photo Exhibition 2020, showcasing the stories that matter with photography from the 63rd annual World Press Photo Contest, started its worldwide tour at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 1 June. The flagship exhibition opened with special safety measures following the Dutch authorities’ COVID-19 regulations, including an adjustment of the exhibition route to maintain 1.5 m distance between visitors, pre-booked ticket time-slots, and automatic sanitizer stations, amongst other measures.

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The World Press Photo Exhibition will now travel to other locations where it is safe to reopen to the public. Seven exhibitions have been confirmed in the coming months: Prague, Czech Republic; Rome, Italy; Berlin, Germany; Alkmaar, the Netherlands; Montreal, Canada; Budapest, Hungary; Dortmund, Germany; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Barcelona, Spain.

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In 2019, the World Press Photo Exhibition toured to over 120 cities in 50 countries around the world, reaching over 4 million visitors. As governments in some countries start to ease measures and allow public spaces to reopen with certain rules, other locations of our World Press Photo Exhibition 2020 tour will be able to open later in 2020 and 2021. Check our calendar for all dates. New locations and dates are updated regularly.

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World Press Photo Exhibition 2020

Presenting the results of the foundation’s annual contests, the World Press Photo Exhibition displays the best visual journalism of the last year.

The stories in this year's exhibition invite the audience to stop, feel, think and act, ranging from protest stories around the world, such as the World Press Photo of the Year Straight Voice by Yasuyoshi Chiba and Hong Kong Unrest by Nicolas Asfouri; to those that highlight the impact of climate change in ecosystems and society, such as Katie Orlinsky’s The Carbon Threat and Luca Locatelli’s The End of Trash - Circular Economy Solutions.

Yearbook 2020

The World Press Photo Yearbook 2020 showcases winning photography from the 2020 Photo Contest, selected by an independent jury from 73,996 photographs entered by 4,282 photographers from 125 countries. Learn more about the yearbook here.

Connecting the world to the stories that matter

We are a global platform connecting professionals and audiences through trustworthy visual journalism and storytelling, founded in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized a contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to an international audience. Since then, our mission has expanded. Our contests have grown into the world’s most prestigious competitions, rewarding the best in visual journalism and digital storytelling. Through our successful worldwide exhibition program, we present to millions of people the stories that matter. Our Develop programs - including the 6x6 Global Talent Program, the African Photojournalism Database, the Joop Swart Masterclass, the Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative, and the West Africa Visual Journalism Initiative - encourage stories highlighting different perspectives of the world. We are a creative, independent, nonprofit organization. We appreciate the support of our global partner, the Dutch Postcode Lottery, and our partners Aegon and PwC.

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